On the Waters

Turnabout is fair play?

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

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 […]

Waterfalls

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

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 […]

Water!

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

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 […]

Lies, damned lies, and statistics

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

CNY ecoBlog takes a quick look at today’s bombshell that Syracuse is somehow the city with the worst “carbon footprint” in New York. Is Syracuse’s sprawl and highway addiction really worse than Buffalo’s or Rochester’s? C’mon. Despite sprawl without growth being a significant problem in Central New York, I can’t get my […]

Rain as an absolute good

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

It rained on Saturday evening, and then again all day on Monday.
Was anyone upset?
I wonder if mainstream American society will ever get to the point where, no matter what we have planned outdoors for the day, a rainy day is first and foremost seen as something to be grateful for. Thoughts of […]

Great Lakes Compact

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

New York signs on, and not a moment too soon.

Blue is the new green

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

Water will conform to any vessel that future politicians want to put it in.

Top New York stories of the year

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

It’s not just Choppergate.

Let’s talk about the Water Crisis

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

Because we can live for up to three weeks without food.

Open water

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

If Upstate New Yorkers ever became water-masters on a parched continent, what kind of stewards would we be?