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Why not visit the indoor farmers’ market?
Found thanks to the Rockland County Tourism calendar:
Rockland’s only winter indoor farmers’ market is back! The Palisades Indoor Winter Farmers’ Market opens Saturday, February 6. The market will be held every Saturday through May 15, from 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. in the Palisades Community Center located at 675 Oak Tree Road in Palisades, NY.
Housed in a [...]
Save the date - 2010 spring cleanup
The Great American Cleanup in Rockland County, which is coordinated by Keep Rockland Beautiful and many local cleanup leaders, is Rockland’s biggest annual community improvement event.
The dates for this year’s cleanup is between April 17-25 2010.
In 2009, there were over 300 cleanups registered, around 4000 volunteers involved, and they bagged up to 40 tons of trash!
More [...]
Presentation on January 24, a non-toxic Orangetown?
From Rose Marie Raccioppi:
The Rockland County Nontoxic Land Maintenance Act passed in June, 2008 is currently in effect.
As a member of the Orangetown Environmental Committee I will be making a presentation on January 24, 2009 in preparation of presenting a request to the Town Board for a similar nontoxic land maintenance policy. We are at [...]
July 12 - another Air Quality Action Day today!
Beautiful weather and pollution from our everyday car trips make the air quality lower than it has to be. We hope you become aware of the simple things we all can do to reduce the problems for ourselves and the especially vulnerable (such as kids, and people with asthma). We listed the ideas from Clean Air [...]
Rockland Environmental and Civic Groups Form Coalition to Oppose United Water Plans to Pump Hudson River for Drinking Water
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PRESS RELEASE - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - JULY 9, 2008
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Some of the leading environmental organizations in Rockland County have joined together with civic organizations in a growing coalition that is demanding a more thorough environmental and economic analysis by state and local agencies of United Water’s proposed desalination-filtration plant in Haverstraw. The Rockland Coalition for [...]
July 8 = another Air Quality Action Day is forecast today!
URGENT!
The New York State Department of Transportation has declared that Tuesday, July 8, 2008 will be an Air Quality Action Day in the New York metro area due to forecasted high levels of ground-level ozone pollution. While tomorrow will still be a day when people can go about most of their normal activities, such [...]
Not too late to contact the legislature regarding the pesticide maintenance act!
Check the post from yesterday and get those e-mails going, or pick up the phone and get your support counted by the county clerk!
T H A N K Y O U !!
How to support the Pesticide law - contact the legislature!
Just a friendly reminder about the important public hearing in New City tomorrow night (see the previous post for more info).
To support this act:
call 845.638.5100 and tell them you want to be counted as a supporter of the THE ROCKLAND COUNTY NONTOXIC LANDSCAPE MAINTENANCE ACT, or
write an email to the legislature (information here), or
attend the meeting at 8pm, [...]
