The 14th annual Ramapo River Watershed Conference will be held from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Friday in Student Center Room 136 at Ramapo College of New Jersey, 505 Ramapo Valley Road in Mahwah. Ramapo Valley Road is also known as Route 202.

We’ll have a short story about the conference tomorrow in The Journal News.

But [...]

The Rockland Municipal Planning Federation will focus on green building when it holds its 21st annual dinner meeting at 7 p.m. March 31.

Architect Michael Shilale will describe why existing buildings are prime opportunities for reducing carbon emissions and energy use. He will also present information about the LEED-EB rating system and ways to implement improvements [...]

When you want to learn more about climate change, the first place you should be looking, apparently, is a marsh.

In this case, the Piermont Marsh, where researcher Dorothy Peteet has been poking around for the past few years. It turns out that tidal marshes are pretty recorders of history, especially if one is willing to [...]

A debate on whether the Nuclear Regulatory Commission should reject the license renewal application for Indian Point Nuclear Generating Units 2 and 3 will be held from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. March 30 at the Haverstraw King’s Daughters Public Library, Route 202 in Garnerville.

The Hudson Valley Debate Union is sponsoring the program, which revolves [...]

You hear about it all the time, bottled water is better than tap water, and tap water is better than bottled.

But what’s the truth?

The League of Women Voters of Rockland County and the Rockland Water Quality Committee hope to shed light on the issue with a free program tomorrow, “Bottled Water vs. Tap Water: Which [...]

Keep Rockland Beautiful runs a series of activities it calls Earth B.E.A.T., which stands for Basic Environmental Awareness Training.

The program visits local schools and helps kids learn about the environment through a variety of hands-on activities. In some cases, the program supplements what students are learning in their classrooms. In other cases, it’s the only [...]

The New Jersey Audubon Society has scheduled a Jan. 17 program focusing on owls at the nearby (to Rockland) Weis Ecology Center in Ringwood, N.J.

Weis naturalists will be provide an overview of local owls, and participants can meet a live screech owl, enjoy some hot chocolate, then head outside to listen for and to learn [...]

Pete Seeger and some of his musical pals are coming to the Lower Hudson Valley next month, but if you really want to see and hear them, don’t wait to buy your tickets. Seeger is considered a role model by many who support the environment.  

The gang will make two local appearances, one in White [...]

Today is garbage day in my neighborhood in Airmont.

We put the can out last night, but when we walked to the end of the driveway to collect the newspaper this morning — no can.

That’s right, someone STOLE my garbage can — with the garbage STILL IN IT.

I’m peeved. I just bought two new cans in [...]

John McDowell and Alexandra Spadea, the husband and wife who run Camp Hill Farm in Pomona, will open their place to the public this Saturday.

The couple has been working one acre of the six-acre plot housing the farm in hopes of creating a model pocket farm that can be duplicated in suburban communities to provide [...]