sustainability

People use a lot of stuff during the holidays. Foil-covered dishes, wrapping paper, cardboard boxes and Christmas trees will soon need to be discarded.

New York now has a plan for how the state will reach its ambitious climate goals, established through law, after a council of stakeholders established in statute voted to approve that strategy Monday.

The laws set standard wages for renewable energy jobs, set higher energy efficiency standards and incentivize thermal energy infrastructure and research.

Wegmans said that by making the switch to fiber cartons, it will eliminate 625,000 pounds of foam from its stores every year.

The Capital Plan is part of the county’s long term effort to bring down it’s carbon emissions to almost zero by 2035.

Check out this PBS Learning Media resource discussing seafood sustainability.Did you know that the decisions we make when ordering seafood can impact the…