The Adirondack Climate Outreach and Resilience Network (ACORN), formed officially in May, is made up of representatives from Paul Smith’s College, The Wild Center and the Adirondack Research Consortium.
The group has put together a series of listening events around the region, to hear from residents about their experiences with climate change. The public will have a chance at the events to share their experiences, concerns, and ideas for building a more resilient future. The information collected will be shared with federal, state and local agencies to develop a climate resilience roadmap and help to bring federal and state resources to the region that benefits the North Country.
Listening sessions are free and open to the public and will take place at the following times and locations:
- 2:20-3:50 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 30: Fall Forestry Roundtable at SUNY Adirondack
- 1:30-3:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 1: Adirondack Ecological Center, Newcomb
- 2-4:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 14: Whallonsburg Grange, Champlain Valley
- 2-5:30 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 5: Clarkson University, Potsdam
More sessions will be planned in 2025. For more information about these and future sessions, visit www.adkwatershed.org/acorn. A survey is included for those who are unable to attend in person.
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Photo at top: The eroded shoulder undermining Angier Hill Road in Westport. Photo by Eric Teed
I wonder how much gasoline will be used so people can sit around and babble about nothing.
Climate change is a money making scheme. Keeping those flying around in private jets extremely wealthy. All of them living in Mansions on water front properties as they promote FEAR to remain in power.
I agree this environmental climate change bullshit is nothing but to make rich people richer and the poor poorer what I would like to see with this magazine is to have a good discussion of what happened over in California when common Sense doesn’t prevail and now you have a super huge toxic dump site where the homes had burned down and businesses everything from electric cars solar panels plastics all over the place and of course the most famous one is the battery plant to hold solar power lithium batteries burnt and contaminated the area where food is grown if it wasn’t for fossil fuels we would have no trees left we went from paper bags to plastic and now in my county in Erie county New York they banned plastic bags because they’re sold discussing to see flying around and getting caught in trees and bushes but the reason why we went plastic is to save the trees you can’t have it both ways we got to have an honest discussion and try to promote ways of living that are not polluting and we are not talking about chemicals anymore if you notice people spraying stuff on their lawns the chemlawns which most people don’t know that you cannot as a landscaping business collect grass without having a toxic dump site for it it is so contaminated the lawn clippings you have to have a person or a business with a permit to collect grass clippings can you believe that we have gotten away from getting rid of chemicals they are in everything we do and eat and drink contaminating Wells and the new one is spreading raw sewage or collected sewage on farmland and then the pfas are found on the land and it cannot firm that land ever again because the people’s are in the sewage but yet they promote sewage for fertilizing farmland you can’t be this stupid you can’t be this irrational and expect people to believe that you’re trying to do the right thing where are the articles talking about such things especially chemicals now we have to deal with micro nano plastics now that are in every cell of our bodies because it can be blown around as a dust of course obviously ends up in the waterways and you drink it who in the right mind would want to drink municipal water what other thing are they not telling us that’s in there obviously pfas and forever chemicals where are the articles on that let’s have a discussion of what happened to California because it wouldn’t cut the brush the brush hadn’t been cut in 30 years they wonder why are they started burning down and they can’t even clean up their own yards because they’re so contaminated unbelievable only in America