Listen back to our Forest Health lecture with Brendan Quirion.

Listen back to Jonathan Bix, Executive Director of For the Many, discuss how multi-racial, intergenerational, and broad-based community organizing can build power for environmental justice.

Listen back as we celebrate the launch of the Hudson Valley Pollinator Action Guide: your go-to resource for protecting threatened native pollinators using Hudson Valley native plant species.

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.

Environmental Advocates NY Director Vanessa Fajans-Turner discusses key environmental problems in New York, and opportunities and gaps for climate action within the upcoming New York State Budget.

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 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.

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.

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.

On April 25th, Matt Schlesinger, Chief Zoologist with the NY Natural Heritage Program, joined our 2023 Morning Coffee series to discuss “Preserving Native New York Pollinators: What to Know and What to Do,” sharing the results of the recently completed Empire State Native Pollinator Survey.