Author: <span>Jason West</span>

Angie Fyfe: Forging the Tools for Climate Justice

Local Governments for Sustainability ICLEI is quite possibly the most important NGO you’ve never heard of.  The acronym stands, or at least stood, for the ‘International Coalition for Local Environmental Initiatives.’  ICLEI these days more often goes by ‘ICLEI: Local Governments for Sustainability.’  The organization is a global nonprofit aiming …

Wallkill River Summit Galvanizes Support for the River’s Restoration

On March 28th of this year, nearly a hundred people gathered at SUNY New Paltz for the third Wallkill River Summit, organized by the Wallkill River Watershed Alliance. Gathering together community organizers, officials from the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation, local elected leaders and an interested public, the 2017 Wallkill …

Poison Waters: Toxic Algae in the Wallkill River

  The Wallkill River begins in northern New Jersey, at Lake Mohawk.  Flowing north ninety miles, it joins the Hudson River at Kingston. The Wallkill flows through abandoned mines, a national wildlife refuge, and some of the richest farmland in the country.  It still has dams strung like beads along …

To Save the Wallkill River

The Wallkill River starts at Lake Mohawk in New Jersey and flows north 90 miles to meet the Rondout Creek in Esopus and Rosendale, New York.  Along the way, the river drains 785 square miles, its 69 major tributaries branching out to include 43 municipalities in five counties across two …