Listen back to Nathaniel Stinnett, Founder & Executive Director of the Environmental Voter Project, for a discussion of their research on climate voters in the Hudson Valley and the impact such voters could have in the 2024 elections.

Alarmed by the widespread forest regeneration failure throughout NY and the Hudson Valley, PCA has recruited a special task force to provide input into our programmatic work and funding in this space.

PCA is thrilled to grant to twenty recipients—municipalities and local nonprofits in the Hudson Valley that are reducing the carbon footprint of their buildings. 67% of funding will be going to applicants based in NY State Designated Disadvantaged Communities. Full completion of the projects will result in the estimated reduction of 750 metric tons of CO2e.

Listen back to our Morning Coffee Webinar to hear Dr. Anton Seimon discuss the science behind severe storms and the state of climate change in Hudson Valley.

Listen back to writer and scholar Stephanie Mills as she explores the concepts behind Bioregionalism and shares the ways of thinking and doing that will allow us to live well in our places.

Listen back to our Morning Coffee webinar to learn how community organizing can inspire local governments to take action, with examples from one forward-looking municipality in the Hudson Valley.

Attendees from across the Hudson Valley came together for a deep dive into native seed collection techniques in the classroom and the field.

Learn from out partner at the the New York State Hudson River Estuary Program how comprehensive plans, natural resource inventories, open space plans, and zoning can be used as powerful tools toward achieving climate and ecological goals. We then hear from an environmental leader in Ancram (Columbia County) on how her town did just that.

Thank you to everyone who joined us at Hutton Brickyards!

Samrat Pathania, Master Teacher Emeritus (Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science) and co-founder of the Educator Collective for Environmental Justice, and Mary Jane Nusbaum, an art teacher in the Hudson Valley and co-advisor for a climate club at New Paltz Middle School, led us through their experience integrating climate solutions into classroom curriculum.

It was a beautiful July afternoon in Gallatin, New York when Claudia Knab-Vispo and Kyle Bradford arrived for a scouting walk in the meadow where they’d be leading a walk later that evening. The site, a family-owned property managed by Eli Arnow and Avalon Bunge, is in the process of being converted to a native biodiversity hotspot. After two years without mowers in the fields, native plants were evident in every direction, and bees and butterflies floated among them.

PCA is honored to announce that The National has designated it as recipient of $1 for each ticket sold during The National’s current world tour.

Congratulations to the Town of Canaan for receiving a 2023 Ecological Restoration Grant. Funding will support the planting of native wildflowers and trees and removal of the invasive water chestnut.

We are proud to share that Freedom Plains United Presbyterian Church received a 2023 Ecological Restoration Grant to support a pollinator garden with a rainwater harvesting system.

Community members teamed up to support ecological restoration on Kite’s Nest campus. Volunteers learned about compost care, helped with the “lasagna layering” method for soil building, and cleaned up the site. Kite’s Nest was a recipient of PCA’s 2023 Ecological Restoration Grants program.

As a parent, caregiver, educator, or anyone with children in their lives, talking about the realities of the climate crisis can be hard. On May 30th, Harriet Shugarman, Executive Director of ClimateMama, shared her insights on how to inform, inspire, and empower the next generation.

Congratulations to New Paltz Middle School for receiving a 2023 Ecological Restoration grant for their pollinator project. The grant will fund construction of three types of native gardens to improve habitat and augment outdoor curriculum, in partnership with the Wallkill Valley Land Trust Pollinator Pathway.

On July 11th, Samrat Pathania, Master Teacher Emeritus and co-founder of the Educator Collective for Environmental Justice, and Mary Jane Nusbaum, an art teacher in the Hudson Valley, led us through their experience integrating climate solutions into classroom curriculum.

Congratulations to the Philmont Public Library for receiving a 2023 Ecological Restoration Grant for their “Philmont Pollinator Pathway” project. This grant will provide pollinator habitat along a public-private connectivity corridor and will include public engagement programs.

Congratulations to our ten cohort members for successful completion of the Local Champions program! This PCA program brought together and trained community change-makers to lead their municipality’s work as part of NYS’s Climate Smart Communities program.