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Climate Websites of Neighboring Towns
Albany: albanyny.gov/263/Sustainability
Ancram: ancramny.org/climate-smart-community-task-force/
Bedford: bedford2020.org
Chatham: https://www.chathamnewyork.us/government/committees/climate_smart_committee.php
Dutchess County: dutchessny.gov/Departments/Planning/Climate-Smart-Communities.htm
Hurley: climatesmarthurley.org
Ithaca: town.ithaca.ny.us/sustainability
City of Ithaca: cityofithaca.org/421/Sustainable-Ithaca
Kinderhook: villageofkinderhook.org/climate.html
Germantown: sustainablegermantown.org
Larchmont: villageoflarchmont.org/link-to-environmental-committee/
Marbletown (High Falls): marbletown.net/ecc
Montour Falls: villageofmontourfalls.com/sustainability.html
North East/Millerton: climatesmartmillerton.org
Phillipstown: climatesmartphilipstown.org, Philipstownfightsdirty.org
Red Hook: redhookchallenge.org, Red Hook’s Climate Action Committee’s FB page
Rhinebeck: climatesmartrhinebeck.org
Saugerties: climatesmartsaugerties.org
Ulster County: ulstercountyny.gov/environment/climate-smart
Farther afield:
Southampton: southamptontownny.gov/212/Energy-Sustainability
LOCAL COMMUNITY RESOURCES
Explore these local area resources for events, meetings and to find community around efforts to address climate change and ecological repair.
Hawthorne Valley Farm programs and events
Institute for Mindful Agriculture
Columbia County Natural Resources Inventory
Environmental Management Council Resource page
Schumacher Center for New Economics
NATIONAL GROUPS WITH CHAPTERS NEARBY
- 350.org Nearest group (Albany)
- Extinction Rebellion Nearest group (Albany)
- The Sunrise Movement
- Citizens’ Climate Lobby (Columbia County Chapter meets twice a month in Hudson. For more info: columbiacounty@citizensclimatelobby.org)
- Latino Outdoors
GENERAL RESOURCES
New York State
- Mothers Out Front
- Environmental Advocates NY
- Scenic Hudson
- Environmental programming at Omega Institute
- Riverkeeper
- Oceans 8 Films
- Hudson River Estuary Program
NYS and Beyond
- Regeneration (World’s largest listing of solutions to the climate crisis. And how to do them!)
- Project Drawdown
- Regenesis Group
- ICLEI USA, Local Governments for Sustainability
- Project InsideOut
- Local Futures
- The Climate Mobilization
- End Climate Silence
- Yale Program on Climate Communication
- Environmental Voter Project
- The Leap
ENVIRONMENTAL FAITH AND INTERFAITH GROUPS
- One Earth Sangha
- GreenFaith
- Interfaith Moral Action on Climate
- Interfaith Power and Light
- Interfaith Rainforest Initiative
- Catholic Climate Covenant
- Young Evangelicals for Climate Action
- Evangelical Environmental Network
- Quakers and Climate Change
- Ecosikh
- A Rocha International
- Creation Justice Ministries
- Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life
- Hazon, The Jewish Lab for Sustainability
RECOMMENDED READING
- Subscribe to the “NYTimes Climate Forward” for the latest news about climate change and how you can help
- InsideClimateNews A Pulitzer Prize-winning, non-profit, non-partisan news organization dedicated to covering climate change, energy and the environment. The site’s Publisher is a Ghent neighbor.
- Orion Magazine
- Climate, A New Story by Charles Eisenstein, 2018
- The Overstory by Richard Powers, 2018
- The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben, 2015
- Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken, 2017
- Ecology, Ethics and Interdependence: The Dalai Lama in Conversation with Leading Thinkers on Climate Change by John D. Dunne and Daniel Goleman, 2018
- The Biophilia Effect: A Scientific and Spiritual Exploration of the Healing Bond Between
- Humans and Nature by Clemens Arvay, 2018
- Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World by Marcia Bjornerud, 2018
- Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees by William Bryant Logan, 2019
- Losing Earth: A Recent History by Nathaniel Rich, 2019
- The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All
- Living Things by Peter Wohlleben, 2019
- A Wild Love for the World by Joanna Macy, Shambhala Publications, 2020
- Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives and World by Joanna Macy, 1998
- The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells, 2019
- Energy: A Human History by Richard Rhodes, 2019
- Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer, 2014
- Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? by Bill McKibben, 2019
- Dangerous Years: Climate Change, the Long Emergency, and the Way Forward by David Orr, 2018
- Love Letter to the Earth by Thích Nhất Hạnh, 2013
- The World We Have by Thích Nhất Hạnh, 2008
- Two Economies essay by Wendell Berry, 2005How can we design a solution to climate change? By Nobeleconomist Eric Maskin, 2020
ACTIVITIES FOR YOUTH
- Brainpop (climate change related movies, games and education)
- Earth Challenge 2020 (a citizen science initiative)
- The Wild Center (a Tupper Lake, NY based youth climate program)
RESOURCES FOR FARMERS
- NY Soil Health
- Soil and Water Conservation District Offices Provide technical assistance, information access to grants for farmers. (State Level)
- USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (National)
- Cornell Cooperative Extension offices Provide farmers technical assistance
- American Farmland Trust (Farmers Combat Climate Change in NY)
EXAMPLES OF HV REGENERATIVE FARMING
- Columbia County & Dutchess Carbon Farming Pilot
- Ben Dobson’s story, his Hudson Tedx talk 2017
- Stone House Grain (Rockefeller estate, 2500 acres)
- Hudson Hemp
- Hudson Carbon
- Leah Penniman of Soul Fire Farm gives Annual Schumacher Lecture 2018