By Michael Gold New York State is greatly increasing its protection of wetlands, starting this January. New regulations, proposed by the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), will protect vernal pools and other “small wetlands of unusual importance,” possibly affecting commercial and residential

By Michael Gold If home is the place where they have to take you in, then the Emmanuel Lutheran Church of Pleasantville is the place where everyone will be welcomed when they walk in the door no matter what. “We

By Michael Gold Several teams of students at the Environmental Leaders of Color (ELOC) Summer Academy exhibited their environmental solutions at the annual summer showcase of the organization. The E-Messiah team demonstrated how to take a battery out of an

By Michael Gold Combustion-powered school buses aren’t like “The Magic School Bus” books for kids – full of the adventure of learning. In fact, they’re downright harmful to children. Diesel and gas school buses emit something called particulate emissions, in

By Michael Gold Gary Goldfinger has met a number of characters with names that sound like they’re part of a comic book gang – The Claw, Dabzilla and the Cyborg Cockroach. Disappointingly, they’re not. They’re the names of climbing routes showing how

By Michael Gold The average Westchester County household emits 51.2 metric tons of greenhouse gases (GHG) per year. Putnam County’s household numbers are worse, at 56.8 metric tons annually. The average Chappaqua household emits close to 87 metric tons of

By Michael Gold One of the easiest, cheapest ways to limit the effects of increased local flooding due to climate change is to stop pouring cooking oil down your sink. This is the message that Dr. Diana Williams and Marvin

By Michael Gold Pleasantville lost Jon Lieb about one year ago and I’m still wondering why it happened. I met Jon about 30 years ago. We worked together at a public relations agency in Manhattan in the 1990s, when he

By Michael Gold John Fratangelo suffered two grievous blows during his Army service in Vietnam in 1967. His cousin Tony was killed in combat. A few months later John was shot in the leg and four members of his squad

By Michael Gold One of the worst things about stillbirths, besides the obvious, is that no one wants to talk about it. Rachel Krause wants to talk about it. “It’s a club no one wants to belong to,” she said,