RTPI Staff Members Attend Conference in Washington, DC
At the end of February, staff member Linda Pierce and I had the opportunity to attend the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) 2015 Museums Advocacy Day conference in Washington, D.C.! By attending the conference, we became part of the effort to make a case for museums across the country. The highlight of the experience was the day that we met with some of our state legislators on Capitol Hill. We were given the chance to speak on behalf of the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History, and therefore other small museums in New York State in order to gain support for our essential and...
Read More“2 The Outdoors” Environmental Forum
We are happy to pass on this announcement from our friend Producer Terry Belke of WGRZ about the very first “2 The Outdoors” Environmental Forum, coming up this Wednesday March 11, 7:30 pm at the UB Center For Tomorrow. The evening’s topic is Invasive Species in Western New York featuring three speakers: Andrea Locke of WNY Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management (PRISM), Ken Parker of the Seneca Nation Of Indians, and Mark Whitmore of Cornell University. There will be a audience Q&A session after the speakers.
Read MoreMore recyclable plastic
I can still remember when we first got the “blue bin” to toss recyclable materials in every other week when I was a child in Connecticut. It could only take plastics labeled #1 or #2 plus cans and bottles, then newspapers, then all sorts of paper, and so on. Now you can even recycle these plastic newspaper bags by bringing them to stores! It is a long road but we are finally getting to a point where nearly everything we use can be used again for another purpose or entirely recycled. At least if we have to use plastic we can make sure it is not going directly to waste. I know each...
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