Environment | East End Beacon

Climate Local Now: A Festival of Solutions

by Mary Morgan & Mark Haubner Drawdown Festival – Tools for Regeneration: Forums! Fun! Films! blankets the weekend from January

It’s been a year, almost to the day, since New York State gave its Public Service Commission control over the

Pictured Above: At the site of an early authorized FIMP project at Kirk Park Beach in Montauk in 2015. Leaders

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has signed a bill that will now allow the cultivation of kelp on Suffolk County

Pictured Above: Pigs at 8 Hands Farm in Cutchogue in Dom Aprile’s “Farming Long Island” Growing up in Smithtown, filmmaker

Pictured Above: Pedal Share bikes at EPCAL in Riverhead Town, which has become the most-used location of the service in

Pictured Above: Ørsted‘s graphic of the sea-to-shore transition of the South Fork Wind Farm cable. Work on the onshore portion

While groundwater is plentiful under much of Long Island, some of the most fragile parts of the aquifer are on

Land preservation rarely happens at light speed, but for one piece of farmland beloved by people in Mattituck and its

Ospreys have made a dramatic comeback on the East End in recent years, with nearly 600 birds fledging from nests

After two deadly years for the Peconic Bay’s bay scallop population, there wasn’t much hope for this year’s scallop season,