November 10, 2020. The ECP, along with the Philipstown Climate Smart Community Task Force and the Philipstown Garden Club, welcomed David Green of Zero Carbon Home fame to teach us his methods for bringing his own home to net zero. Learn more about David here.

Fall 2020. The ECP welcomes back New Era Creative Space’s “Nature Connection Camp” for an after-school program. Middle school students from Garrison and Peekskill socially distanced on the farm and learned from two Regenerative Communities farmers the ways of putting a farm to bed for the winter and the joys of connecting with nature in the autumn.

July 15, 2020. The ECP, in partnership with the Town of Philipstown and ICLEI USA, has released its official Community Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory report - Sink, Store, Reduce, Offset - which is one of the first to use local survey and land use data to measure life-cycle carbon-emission impacts of the goods and services we consume and to estimate the work of natural resources to remove and store carbon from the atmosphere. Learn how the Town created its production-based, consumption-based and forest-carbon GHG inventory with lessons learned for other communities.

July 2020. The ECP welcomes back New Era Creative Space’s “Nature Connection Camp.” For 6 weeks, we host local youth on Longhaul Farm to learn about nature, farming, our food system and climate change. Different this year, as we incorporate social distancing in the midst of the pandemic, we are still able to cultivate skills within each camper that may last a lifetime.

May 5, 2020. The ECP welcomed certified climate ambassador, Dahni-El Giles from UpRhizer, who presented the workshop: “The Optimist’s Guide to Climate Crisis: How to do More than Hope.” This interactive workshop was not an event to debate whether climate change is real or who's at fault -- it was an event to illuminate and encourage action. Together we learned that there are dozens of actions we can take to try to mitigate the effects of climate change - and that we’ll have to start working on many of them in tandem in order to reach the goals set by climate scientists around the globe. Learn more about the En-Roads Climate Interactive tool here.

May 1, 2020. The ECP was honored to play a role in bringing three movers and shakers from the food/farming world to alumni of the Bard Prison Initiative. Dennis Derryck of Corbin Hill Farm, Sandra Nurse of BKROT and Karen Washington of Rise & Root Farm spoke about how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted our food systems, particularly for those who are formerly incarcerated, and encouraged folks to organize, activate, and be a part of the new food opportunities that will emerge that can move communities closer to food sovereignty and wealth generation.