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Jeremy Moule/WXXI NewsThe Climate Solutions Accelerator of the Genesee Finger Lakes Region is launching a volunteer advocacy group, Color Rochester Green, with the goal of prioritizing climate action in communities of color in the city. -
Max Schulte/WXXI NewsGenesee Land Trust co-founder and executive director Gay Mills is getting ready to retire in 2023. She joined the organization as a volunteer in 1990 and has been it's leader since 1998.
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While methane doesn’t make up a large share of greenhouse gas emissions, it’s more harmful than carbon and other more common pollutants. And it can be curbed dramatically by plugging old wells that leak the gas. -
The road to affordable eco-friendly living in Rochester isn’t easy but some residents are finding ways to make it possible.
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Near Monroe Avenue in downtown Rochester, a lush and almost secret garden thrives.It's filled with herbs like basil, mint, and parsley, along with plenty…
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Washington Grove sits nearby a bus route, but at the center of this 26-acre woodland you could easily forget you’re in a city.Lee Sengbusch thinks so,…
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A few dozen people representing various environmental and social justice groups gathered outside the federal building on State Street Thursday. They're…
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A new program is pairing residents with an organization that urges everyone in the region to become stewards of Canandaigua Lake through education and…
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New York state forest rangers have joined a countrywide effort to aid efforts to extinguish wildfires out West. Forest ranger Timothy Carpenter from…
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Two New York state forest rangers have been deployed to assist efforts to fight wildfires out West. Forest ranger Timothy Carpenter, from Steuben County,…
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For the first time in 50 years, a spawning female sturgeon has been found in the Genesee River.A crew led by Dawn Dittman, research ecologist at the U.S.…
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Starting Sept. 1, city of Rochester residents will get their electricity entirely from renewable sources unless they opt out of the initiative that’s…
