Bipartisan legislation submitted to the Monroe County Legislature would establish a county Climate Action Plan Advisory Committee.
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Geneva first in region to launch energy program
The Town of Geneva will be the first community in the Rochester-Finger Lakes region to go live with a program that will switch households and small businesses over to a fully renewable electricity supply, unless those customers say that don’t want it. The change will happen on July 1. Geneva was able to secure the […]
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RIT students target dorm debris
It’s a common problem on college campuses: When live-in students leave at the end of the year, they ditch large amounts of stuff. They throw away piles of clothing, pounds of perfectly good food, and they abandon furniture in hallways, at the curb, or by the trash. Much of it ends up in a landfill, […]
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Rochester to undertake citywide climate inventory
The City of Rochester will hire a consultant to help it put together a Climate Action Plan — a step that an official says builds on other projects and programs helping to make Rochester a more sustainable and, therefore, more desirable city. “You want to be in a community that’s somewhat progressive in sustainability areas. […]
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Remanufacturing: RIT awakens a giant
For much of the last two centuries, Northeastern cities like Rochester saw their local economies and work forces transformed by manufacturing. Rochester, a manufacturing powerhouse on its own, produced and even created items that changed how Americans lived. From buttons to caskets to cameras and copiers, this area’s factories churned out a staggering range of […]
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WEEK AHEAD: Sustainability meeting, RPD outreach, downtown planning, RCSD wants YOU
The coalition developing the Finger Lakes Regional Sustainability Plan will hold a public meeting from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, January 16, at RIT’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability. When it’s finished, the plan will outline actions for improving the long-term sustainability of the region’s communities and natural resources, planners say. It’ll include recommendations […]
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Sustainable Rochester
A consortium of counties and planning agencies in the Rochester area expects to finish a regional sustainability plan by the end of March. | Project planners are gathering data and developing baselines for several things, including greenhouse gas emissions, water quality, and energy use, says David Zorn, executive director of the Genesee/Finger Lakes Regional Planning […]
