Submitted by Tom Andersen on Thu, 04/23/2009 - 2:20pm
We love Earth Day. Indeed, we try to act as if every day were
Earth Day, but we're happy when others make special note of it. Protecting and
improving environmental conditions are not mutually exclusive, and what's good
for climate change, for example, is good for clean water, and what's good for
clean water is good for land protection, and so on. And in fact keeping water
clean and sequestering carbon are two of the many reasons we work hard on
protecting land.
Because we think that every day is Earth Day, we don't do anything particularly special on April 22. But we thought we'd take note of Earth Day anyway by telling you about a handful of things we have going on, all of them relatively modest but important.
Land preservation: In recent weeks, we've started work on potential land acquisitions in Pound Ridge and Yorktown, and on conservation easements in Cortlandt and North Castle. Learn about some successes from earlier this year here and here.
New board member: Lee Manning-Vogelstein, who owns and operates Birdstone Farm in Cross River, has joined our Board of Directors. Lee is a great advocate for land protection. If you attended our gala in June of 2007, you've seen her place -- she hosted the event at Birdstone Farm.
Energy Plus: Help the environment and support Westchester Land Trust by using the Energy Plus "Green Option" for your energy supply.
Westchester Land Trust is working with Energy Plus to make a green product made from 100 percent wind-generated power available to our supporters.
If you choose Energy Plus as your electricity supplier, you will be directly reducing the need for electricity made from fossil fuels and you'll be eligible for a sales tax waiver of up to 9.75 percent on the delivery portion of your electricity bill each month.
You can learn more here.
Party with a Purpose: Our annual fundraiser is set for Saturday, June 20, at Old Salem Farm in North Salem. Click here for more information and to buy tickets.
Quest: We've reopened our fabulous Quest at the Frederick P. Rose Preserve (and we're starting to plan work on two more at other preserves). What is a Quest? Click here to learn. You can learn about all of our preserves by going to our Visit a Preserve page. And don't forget about the great places we helped protect and open to the public, including the Angle Fly Preserve, the Leon Levy Preserve, the Old Field Preserve, the Eastwoods Preserve and the Taxter Ridge Preserve (of the 6,200 acres we've helped protect, more than 2,000 are open to the public).
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Because we think that every day is Earth Day, we don't do anything particularly special on April 22. But we thought we'd take note of Earth Day anyway by telling you about a handful of things we have going on, all of them relatively modest but important.
Land preservation: In recent weeks, we've started work on potential land acquisitions in Pound Ridge and Yorktown, and on conservation easements in Cortlandt and North Castle. Learn about some successes from earlier this year here and here.
New board member: Lee Manning-Vogelstein, who owns and operates Birdstone Farm in Cross River, has joined our Board of Directors. Lee is a great advocate for land protection. If you attended our gala in June of 2007, you've seen her place -- she hosted the event at Birdstone Farm.
Energy Plus: Help the environment and support Westchester Land Trust by using the Energy Plus "Green Option" for your energy supply.
Westchester Land Trust is working with Energy Plus to make a green product made from 100 percent wind-generated power available to our supporters.
If you choose Energy Plus as your electricity supplier, you will be directly reducing the need for electricity made from fossil fuels and you'll be eligible for a sales tax waiver of up to 9.75 percent on the delivery portion of your electricity bill each month.
You can learn more here.
Party with a Purpose: Our annual fundraiser is set for Saturday, June 20, at Old Salem Farm in North Salem. Click here for more information and to buy tickets.
Quest: We've reopened our fabulous Quest at the Frederick P. Rose Preserve (and we're starting to plan work on two more at other preserves). What is a Quest? Click here to learn. You can learn about all of our preserves by going to our Visit a Preserve page. And don't forget about the great places we helped protect and open to the public, including the Angle Fly Preserve, the Leon Levy Preserve, the Old Field Preserve, the Eastwoods Preserve and the Taxter Ridge Preserve (of the 6,200 acres we've helped protect, more than 2,000 are open to the public).