By: Sean King On April 17, Keep Rockland Beautiful held town cleanups in Piermont, Nanuet, and Spring Valley, as a part of The Great American Cleanup’s Earth Day celebrations. Piermont annually rallies its residents to get involved with the village’s efforts to reduce the pollution that is detrimental to local bird and fish populations […]
County Executive Ed Day and the Rockland County Environmental Management Council, an umbrella organization of the Rockland County Division of Environmental Resources, are please to host the 29th Annual Eleanor Burlingham 5th Grade Earth Day Essay & Poster Contest. Starting March 1st, 2020, New York State will ban single use plastic bags from retail stores. […]
By Rockland County Executive Ed Day Every year in Rockland, for the last 28 years, our Department of Environmental Resources (DER) asks 5th Grade students from local schools to compete in the Eleanor Burlingham Earth Day Essay and Poster contest. This year the students answered the questions, ‘what does being “green” mean to you?’ and […]
St. Thomas Aquinas College and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University are co-hosting an Earth Day Fair to promote awareness of environmental issues and sustainability solutions on Tuesday, April 17 from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. in the Romano Student Alumni Center on St. Thomas Aquinas College’s campus. The event is free and open to the public. […]
Earth Day Economics Each year on April 22, we join millions of people around the world to celebrate Earth Day. Earth Day established 47 years ago in the U.S., reminds and encourages us all to be more environmentally friendly. Whether we plant trees, sign petitions, or clean up our roads and waterways, we come […]
Rockland County Legislator Aney Paul and a volunteer crew will participate in the 2017 Great American Cleanup sponsored by Keep Rockland Beautiful on Earth Day, which is Saturday, April 22. New volunteers are welcome. Debris left on roadsides is often washed by rain and melted snow into local waterways through storm drains or blown directly into […]