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Environmental Thoughts - Rochester, NY

http://rochesterenvironmentny.blogspot.com/

RochesterEnvironment.com's mission is to give a complete online snapshot of one community's (Rochester, New York) environment. I invite you to check out RochesterEnvironment.com and comment on this singular project that attempts to focus on making our community a sustainable one--a goal that seems to escape the major media. This exceptional project, providing a complete environmental profile for one city, has been updated daily since 1998.

• Added on: Jul 11th, 2007
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: Frank
• Listed in: Green News & Media
• Tags: news events monroe county rochester great lakes finger lakes

Recent Posts

• Climate Change: Are We Off the Hook?

  Posted on Sunday December 6th, 2009 at 08:07 in rochester news, rochester environment, actions climate change, climate rochester, rochester climate change, climate change emails, alternative fuel rochester climate

  It must be heartwarming for climate change skeptics that the recent climate email flare-up in the news (In e-mails, science of warming is hot debate - washingtonpost.com) seems to question the validity of the current Climate Crisis. Nothing dilutes a...

• Good Environmental Coverage

  Posted on Monday November 30th, 2009 at 11:04

  I applaud this story below by the Democrat and Chronicle yesterday for it thoroughness and importance. Not that all good local environmental reporting has to be about a negative situation (Brownfields), but every community should have a thorough unde...

• Don’t Soil the Nest

  Posted on Sunday November 29th, 2009 at 07:57 in recycle, rochester news, rochester environment, urban parks, rochester's future, recycling discussion

  Even a bird knows not to soil its nest. This message seems lost on us, as our nest (our planet) is filling up with our trash. Instead of properly disposing of it (as any bird would), we are living, drinking, eating, planting, and breathing our unme...

• Walk?

  Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 06:29 in urban sprawl, rochester transportation, walking as transportation, walk rochester, complete streets rochester

  Walking for bipeds was “the cat’s pajamas” for four millions years. That is, putting humanity’s one hairy foot before another got us around just fine. Then, within a relatively short period of time, our species took to climbing on other anim...

• Complete Streets

  Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 18:54 in rochester environment, rochester transportation

  An integral part of any communities Transportation efforts must be the concept of Complete Streets so that the best and most efficient use of our streets can be made for pedestrians, bicyclers, and anyone who wants to get around. Complete Streets The...

• How Walkable is Rochester, NY?

  Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 18:27 in rochester environment, walking as transportation, walk rochester

  Walking is a great way to get around and it's Transportation. Take your own survey and find out how Walkable Rochester is: Walkability Checklist --from Partnership for a Walkable America The Partnership for a Walkable America (PWA) is a national coa...

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This blog is currently rated a 5.00 out of a possible 5 based on 1 comment.

Diwakar Methil

I am a fellow blogger on environment. I liked your bog altho it is topical in nature.

Posted: March 1st, 2009 | More Reviews From divindia | Report This Comment

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