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Southold Takes Another Look at Coastal Resilience Planning

August 5, 2026September 1, 2026 Beth Young

Southold Town is searching for ways to incorporate coastal resilience into its Zoning Update, after many residents asked that protecting the coastlines be made a priority. After much public criticism of a planned massive overhaul of the town's zoning code in 2025, the town's Planning Department announced this spring that it is prioritizing changing certain aspects of the code that will have the greatest impact — community housing, changes to

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Climate Local Now: Making a Place for Cast-Off Cuisine

June 16, 2026July 3, 2026 East End Beacon

by Gabriel Kaczmarek My senior project at Ross School, Cast Off Cuisine, began as an environmentally focused cookbook, but it has evolved into something much larger: a platform to explore how a sustainability-driven mindset can reshape the way we eat and live. By rethinking our daily food choices, we can reduce pressure on natural resources while also creating more affordable, accessible ways to eat well. At its core, Cast Off

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Listening, and Seeing, When the Earth Speaks

June 11, 2026June 14, 2026 East End Beacon

Last summer, the North Fork Arts Center in Greenport embarked on a collaboration with the BarTur Awards, an international photography prize, for a stunning exhibition of great photojournalism from around the world. This year the collaboration is growing in innovative new ways, thanks to a collaboration with a talented group of young composers and musicians from Yale University. Pictured Above: Supratim Bhattacharjee's 'Sinking Sundarban,' Mousuni Island, West Bengal, India. This

Edwina von Gal’s Marshouse in East Hampton, NY, provides habitat (food, shelter, and water) for wildlife and aims to minimize harm and maximize biodiversity. “I like to look at a property this way: What is for me and what is for everything else? If wildlife can’t eat the everything else, what will they eat?” she says. | Photo Courtesy of Perfect Earth Project

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Climate Local Now: How to be a PRFCT Gardener

May 1, 2026June 10, 2026 East End Beacon

by Melissa Ozawa There’s a movement growing and we, at Perfect Earth Project, are thrilled to be a part of it. More and more people want to do something to help end the biodiversity crisis, stop poisoning wildlife (us and our pets!), and use fewer natural resources. But wanting to do good is just the start. Part of Perfect Earth Project’s mission is to share hands-on knowledge about what you

Griffin Beckmann, Maya Taveras, and Shirley Jiang at Share the Harvest Farm. |. Leonard Green photo

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Climate Local Now: From Environmental Education to Action — Three East Hampton Students Reflect

April 20, 2026June 10, 2026 Leonard Green

By Leonard Green East Hampton High School’s Environmental and Garden Clubs have been important gateways to student environmental activity, both on and off campus. When the South Fork ReWild LI chapter ran its inaugural Summer Volunteer Program “to further biodiversity, climate resilience, and food security in our communities,” its first eager student volunteers came from these school clubs. Three years later, three graduating seniors look back on what they have

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Valentine for Climate Hope: We Can Do This, Despite This Week’s Setbacks

February 12, 2026June 10, 2026 Mary Morgan

by Mary Morgan A friend of mine told me about her two 20-something sons, very, very angry at the planet being left for them. I feel their pain. And I shared my story with her: for several years now, really over a decade, I’ve been a climate-worrier. I’ve been concerned (angry too!) that we are not moving away from fossil fuels into clean energy – hey, the big new exciting economy.

14.11.2025 - Belém - Participants visit the Green Zone during the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30). Photo by Alex Ferro/COP30

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Climate Local Now: Cop 30 and the East End

January 12, 2026June 10, 2026 Jack Gibbons

by Jack Gibbons In November 2025, the nations that have agreed to meet climate goals under the 2016 Paris Accord met at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 30, in Brazil, to discuss continued efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to limit global warming. Pictured Above: Participants visit the Green Zone during COP30 Climate Change Conference in November. | Alex Ferro/COP30 photo Meanwhile, Bill Gates, philanthropist and founder of

Kate Rossie-Snook with her friends, the oysters.

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Climate Local Now: Let’s All Be More Like Oysters

December 9, 2025June 10, 2026 East End Beacon

by Kate Rossi-Snook It can be hard to get excited about something that just looks like rocks. I often say this when presenting educational curricula or leading a Stewardship Session. But once you learn more about our native oyster, I promise you will have a new appreciation for this incredibly well-adapted animal. Pictured Above: Kate Rossie-Snook with her friends, the oysters. Celebrating Oysters and their Reefs I’m not the only

Leaves help to nourish garden beds, and provide habitat for beneficial insects. |. Leonard Green photo

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Climate Local Now: Turn Off the Lights. Leave the Leaves.

November 17, 2025June 10, 2026 Leonard Green

by Leonard Green In spring, the nearby bayside meadow is covered with beach plum blossoms. It looks like snow. The white fields fade, and a golden carpet of beach heather follows. By late summer, the beach plums are ripe and sweet to eat. They have withered now, food for winter’s wild foragers. Asters and goldenrods flower in time for the monarch migration. They are an important source of nectar for

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Sustainable Southampton: How Little Changes Can Have a Big Impact

August 2, 2025August 19, 2025 Beth Young

Every choice we make in our personal lives has a ripple effect outward, from our homes to our backyards to our neighborhood and the world. Evan Mason, an architectural designer who serves on Southampton Town’s volunteer Sustainability Committee, has long seen this interconnectedness in her work. This August, with the Sustainability Committee, the Peconic Land Trust and the Mecox Bay Conservancy, she’s spearheading a forum, “Understanding Climate Change on the

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As Sea Level Rises; Suffolk To Study Shoring Up Southold’s Route 48

July 24, 2025August 5, 2025 Beth Young

County Route 48 is known locally on the North Fork as The North Road, distinguishing itself from the Main Road by its geography, four lanes barreling through farmland along the northern spine of Cutchogue, Peconic and Mattituck before narrowing to two lanes through Southold and Greenport, where it hugs the coastlines of Hashamomuck Cove and Hashamomuck Pond. At these easternmost locations, the road is vulnerable to coastal flooding, which is