P-S Breaking NewsA few weeks ago I talked about the September wildflowers being a prelude to the “big October show” of the leaves. Last year around this time, I took my mom to Green Lakes State Park for a Saturday walk around the lakes on a really splendid sunny day when the leaves were at peak. […]
I have sometimes considered where in New York (or the Northeast) I might like to live if I weren’t living in Syracuse. It might seem crazy, but in addition to the usual factors (jobs, politics, weather etc), I find myself considering the history of a place. To me, it’s like the character of […]
The City of Syracuse has put up a large photo log of the renovations to Westcott Reservoir. If you’ve ever wondered about its mysterious interior, check out these pictures. Hard to believe this desolate landscape is located in the middle of a dense suburb.
President Obama would like to stimulate the economy by investing serious amounts of money into infrastructure projects. If he’s looking for a top-priority public works project that needs a lot of attention (and cash)… here’s one he can’t fail to consider: New York City’s aging water system.
Please. It needs help. Badly. […]
This relatively brief story in the NYT about the uptick in commercial shipping on ye olde Erie has aroused a good deal of interest around the blogosphere. You can see some blogger reactions listed here, with a particularly informative post here. It’s part of a realization that you don’t necessarily need to […]
This story in Buffalo’s Artvoice about “the Republic of Oldistan” (the Rust Belt) makes a lot of good points. But I also wonder: Doesn’t a rising birth rate make it more, not less, difficult to enact policies that support long-term solutions for sustainable living? Are old folks really the most indiscriminate consumers […]
This issue doesn’t have anything to do with NYRI in and of itself, but it’s something different: The Delaware County Electric Cooperative, which has 5,000 members in some of the counties that happen to affected by the proposed NYRI line, has filed an application with FERC to build new hydroelectric turbines at four Catskills […]
New York City is all abuzz with the latest giant public art installation, “The New York City Waterfalls.” These cost a whopping $15 million to create. From what I can tell in the comments at the NYT, the local peanut gallery is not very impressed. Having just spent a few weekends exploring […]
CNY ecoBlog catches up with the state of the Great Lakes Water Compact, the nondiversion agreement that’s close to being “ratified” by eight states and Canada, and points out that there could be a stumbling block in Washington for U.S. assent to this pact, since the Great Lakes states are losing political power (along with […]