Kids who want a free ride at Playland Saturday have only to do a little work on behalf of the environment to get their wish.

Any youngster who brings 100 or more used plastic bags to a recycling table near the park’s entrance will receive a Fun Card good for three free rides and a round [...]

The Episcopal Diocese of New York will hold an environmental conference for its congregations – stretching from the Catskills to New York City – from 9:30am – 3pm on Saturday, May 31, 2008 at the St. Mathew’s Church, 382 Cantitoe Street, Bedford, NY.

Program organizers say the purpose of the conference is twofold: to recognize humans’ [...]

The NYS Department of Environmental Conservation has closed shellfish harvesting in certain bays in Long Island Sound due to the detection of a marine biotoxin.

The ban is for areas off Suffolk County, which may seem like a ways off for some of us, but as was pointed to me, some of that harvesting ends up [...]

You might call it Earth Day burnout.

A keynote speech by NY Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s top environmental deputy drew fewer than 50 people as part of a two-day Yonkers Conference focusing on how the city can get greener. Read my colleague Ernie Garcia’s story previewing the event.

One of my long-time sources in Yonkers who [...]

Westchester County has lifted a ban on open fires in county parks that has been in place since April 22. Parks Commissioner Joseph Stout said the recent rainfall eliminated the dry park conditions, but the department will continue to monitor conditions daily. During the ban, charcoal and propane fires were only permitted for cooking in [...]

Sorry folks, I got the date wrong for the Indian Point meetings to help a panel of experts learn what the public is concerned about at the nuclear plant. I thought it was Monday April 21, but it’s Monday April 28. My sincere apology. The times and location are correct in the blog [...]

The panel conducting an independent safety evaluation of Indian Point for the nuclear plant’s owners will hold two public meetings Monday to hear what questions the public would like to be answered about operations at the facility. The 10-expert group has been commissioned by Entergy Nuclear to look into nuclear safety, security and emergency [...]

From our colleagues who cover state government in Albany comes the  following:

Gannett News Service
ALBANY_ The state Department of Economic Conservation Wednesday released $825,000 in grant funding to conservation-minded land trusts.
Fifty-two grants were awarded to 40 local and regional land-trust organizations to spur conservation and smart development across New York State, according to the Land Trust [...]

Westchester County is sponsoring an early Earth Day event from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. tomorrow, Saturday, at Kensico Dam Plaza in Valhalla, focusing on making the county a cleaner, greener and healthier place to live – with some fun thrown in. Visitors will be able to listen to live music and explore environmental themes [...]

Through June 26, the Greenburgh Nature Center is running an exhibit on biomimicry, the science that studies nature’s models and then imitates or takes inspiration from these designs and processes to solve human problems. Watch how some of the animals and plants that make their homes at the Nature Center have been the inspiration [...]