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September 2019
09-30-2019
The website is organized to streamline and standardize the process for evaluating and implementing a potential micro hydropower site responsibly. The site breaks down the requirements for assessing, implementing, and maintaining a micro hydropower system. Using the Saw Kill Project as an example, lessons learned are provided as a resource for landowners, local governments, and researchers alike.
The MicrohydroNY website will be updated on a regular basis with news about the Saw Kill Project and changes that affect micro hydropower in New York State. Visitors are encouraged to explore the website and sign up for direct emails from MicrohydroNY at microhydrony.org.
Photo: Photo by Jaime Martorano
Meta: Type(s): General | Subject(s): Community Engagement,Division of Science, Math, and Computing,Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Center for Environmental Sciences and Humanities,Montgomery Place Campus |
Meta: Type(s): General | Subject(s): Community Engagement,Division of Science, Math, and Computing,Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Center for Environmental Sciences and Humanities,Montgomery Place Campus |
09-20-2019
The event is sponsored by the Bard Center for Civic Engagement, Office of Sustainability, Environmental and Urban Studies Program, and Lifetime Learning Institute.
About the Author
Isabella Tree writes for publications such as National Geographic, Granta, and the Guardian, and is the author of five nonfiction books. Her articles have been selected for the Best American Travel Writing and Reader’s Digest Today’s Best Non-Fiction, and she was Overall Winner of the Travelex Travel Writer Awards. Her latest book Wilding: returning nature to our farm charts the story of the pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex where she lives with her husband Charlie Burrell. Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy Sussex clay was economically ruinous, they decided to step back and let nature take over. By introducing free-roaming herbivores—proxies of the large animals that once roamed Britain—the Burrells’ degraded agricultural land has become a functioning ecosystem again. In less than 20 years, wildlife has rocketed and numerous endangered species have made Knepp their home. The Knepp experience challenges conventional ideas about our past and present landscapes, and points the way to a wilder, richer future—one that benefits farming, nature, and us.
For more information about the book, visit nyrb.com.
For more information about the author and Knepp Castle Estate, visit isabellatree.com and knepp.co.uk.
Meta: Subject(s): Community Engagement,Environmental and Urban Studies Program,Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Center for Civic Engagement |
09-12-2019
Meta: Type(s): Staff | Subject(s): Community Engagement,Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Center for Civic Engagement |
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