When Sally Reuther was eight, she and her cousins built a raft on the four acres behind their grandmother’s house in Kentucky, intending to float it on a little land-locked pond. They spent two days building it out of whatever wood they could find, even ‘borrowing’ one of her grandmother’s sheets to use as a sail. When it was ready, they dragged it to edge of the pond and pushed it in. It sank. “That was my first experience with boating,” says Reuther, 56 of Eastport, MD. Fifty years later and the petite, unassuming Reuther, is the captain of her own sailboat.
Reuther, a former university and high school teacher of dramatic arts originally from Dayton, Ohio, didn’t even see the ocean until she was 27. Now, water and boating are central to her life. After sp ... *Read Full Article»
As we note in our report Freeing the Grid, states are taking the lead when it comes to clean energy policy. There are a number of policy tools states can use to make it easier for citizens to use clean energy: from rolling consumers electric meters back with net metering to requiring the purchase of clean energy through renewable portfolio standards.
New York is among the leaders but not really at the head of the pack, but that might be about to change. In his State of the State speech, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo outlined his support for solar ... *Read Full Article»
Outdated power plant cooling water systems destroy 17 billion fish in New York every year. 
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