Several advocacy groups will hold a Reimagine RTS “Meeting in a Box” from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Worker’s United Building, 750 East Avenue. Reimagine RTS is a deep study of Greater Rochester’s bus system, initiated by RTS’ operater, the Rochester Genesee Regional Transportation Authority. When the project is complete, RGRTA will have […]
Mothers Out Front
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Local summit aims for action on climate
For several years, climate and environmental activists have been calling for New York to take serious, aggressive action to transition the state to 100 percent renewable energy. The state has made progress. It now requires utilities to get half of their electricity from renewables by 2030. And earlier this year, New York and some other […]
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Rochesterians stand with the Sioux
Around 1,500 miles separate Rochester and the Standing Rock Sioux encampment meant to block construction of a section of the Dakota Access oil pipeline near the nation’s North Dakota reservation. But the distance isn’t stopping Rochesterians from joining the fight. They’ve organized events, such as last Saturday’s Water for Life rally, to draw attention to […]
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New York power policy, practices at odds
New York’s energy system is making a complex, tense, and urgent shift away from fossil fuels toward cleaner, renewable sources of power. That’s the official line, anyway. And the shift is supposed to accelerate over the next few years. A new state policy requires utilities to get half of their electricity from renewables such as […]
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The evolution of Earth Day
The event ain’t what it used to be, but that’s not a bad thing
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The City Seen: November 29
This past Sunday we made our way to The Episcopal Church of St. Luke & St. Simon Cyrene on the eve of the Paris Climate Talks as Rochesterians gathered to demand global action from their elected officials during the Rochester March for Global Climate Change. About 400 people filled the church to hear speakers from […]
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Unsafe at any speed?
A fiery derailment of a CSX oil train in Mount Carbon, West Virginia, in February showed the destructive potential of these trains. Twenty-seven of the train’s 109 oil cars went off the tracks — some catching fire or exploding. A nearby home was destroyed in the fire, which continued to burn for five days. The […]
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Moms mobilize against climate change
Andrea Wolff of Chili says that she loves nature and being in the woods. And as a mother of two boys, she says that she feels a sense of urgency about the environment. Wolff says that she knows something needs to be done about climate change, but that she’s struggled to figure out what she […]
