How Capital Region Colleges Stack Up in the Vegan Food Department
Vegetarian and Vegan Options for College Students
Most of us have had our turn as college students, eating fast food and late night pizza delivery to survive cram sessions by night, and dashing through dining rooms grabbing whatever could tide us over while rushing to the [...]
Downstream from the Northeast: The Chesapeake’s Comeback
Improvements to the Bay’s Watershed
It’s not every day that a wide swath of people sharing little else but a common resource join forces to reverse the resource’s degradation with admirable success.
Emerging evidence shows that that may be the case for the Chesapeake Bay, the nation’s largest estuary, and one [...]
Rain Gardens – Managing your Water Resources Naturally
Making a Rain Garden
A developed urban environment – even a rural or suburban residential environment – is comprised of many impervious surfaces that rain hits and quickly runs off, such as driveways, roofs and sidewalks. Instead of percolating gradually into soil and recharging groundwater, the rainfall becomes stormwater [...]
Rooted in Nature: An Independent, Natural Food Store in South Glens Falls
New South Glens Falls Eatery Brings Fresh Food from Local Farms
Rooted in Nature on Route 9 in South Glens Falls opened last Saturday, October 1, 2011. The store is owned and operated by Glens Falls residents Colleen Sommer and Cheri Lawson. Colleen has [...]
New Food Co-op Sees Its Beginnings in Glens Falls
“Eating is an Agricultural Act.” – Wendell Berry
For the past few years, many people in Glens Falls have been looking at ways to improve distribution of locally-grown foods and sundries. Many farmers have set up Consumer Supported Agriculture (CSAs), where the consumer invests prior to the season [...]
Saranac Lake Inn: Eco-Friendly, Affordable, Relaxing
As you drive down Route 86 (aka Lake Flower Avenue), just on the outskirts of downtown Saranac Lake, you’ll see a sign that reads Gauthier’s Saranac Lake Inn. It’s a quiet little place, right on Lake Flower, just about a mile from the center of town.
The Inn [...]
A Guide to Composting
Composting may look like science, but it’s really more of an art. There are ways to optimize the decomposition going on in your backyard pile, but no one right way of doing it. There is no master recipe of what to add, only guidelines. Any time you throw organic matter in a [...]
A History of the Gas Crisis: Part 2 (1963-Present)
(You are currently reading Part 2 of A History of the Gas Crisis. To read Part 1 of this article, click here.)
Further Problems in the Sinai
By 1963, Arab states had formed the Arab League and founded the Palestine Liberation Organization that broke up into divisions. Strict criterion [...]
A History of the Gas Crisis: Part 1 (1948-1957)
Initial Conflicts with Israel
The history of the gas crisis takes us back to just after World War II, when Israel was established on slightly more than half of the land that had been previously known as Palestine and owned by the British. Despite Israeli efforts to bargain [...]
Food Energy and the Modern Food System
There is much to be said for the relative efficiency and ease with which the US food system produces large quantities of food for large quantities of people. As agriculture and food distribution grow more consolidated, less labor and human capital are needed. But at what cost? When we [...]
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