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Sierra Club
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Week Ahead: Sierra Club’s annual environmental forum
Today is Earth Day: a day meant to focus the collective consciousness on the environment, locally and globally. And on Thursday and Friday, the Rochester chapter of the Sierra Club will hold its annual environmental forum. This year’s event features keynote speaker Maude Barlow, a Canadian activist who’s well-known for advancing the concept of water […]
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ACTIVISM: Fracktivism at work
Before there was such a thing as the environmental movement, Mohandas Gandhi warned of the dangers of industrialization and espoused living in balance with the earth. Fittingly, the Rochester-based institute that bears his name is stepping into the fracking debate. From 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday, September 21, the M.K. Gandhi Institute for […]
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Movin’ on out
Between the towns of Malta and Stillwater, just northof Albany, local developers have been itching to get their hands on an Empire Zone designation for years. They see a neat set of computer-chip fabrication plants, or “chip-fabs,” in part of LutherForest. SaratogaCounty was granted an Empire Zone in 2001. The zone does not include any […]
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Full of holes
Now that spring is breaking out, what’s not to love about “Clear Skies”? One thing, maybe: George W. Bush has slapped the term on his latest attempt to sell Americans on “market-based” environmental cleanup and the virtues of fossil fuels. Nothing new here for Bush; he let oil and markets rule the big skies […]
