Climate progress requires action, and that starts in NY
By ROBERT B. CATELL // New York is at the center of climate ambition in the United States. Our region has always been at the forefront of the research and…
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The Debrief: Accelerate LI’s Meeting of the Minds
When last we spoke (he was a guest in December on Spark: The Innovate Long Island Podcast), Accelerate Long Island Program Director Dan Lloyd discussed Long Island’s potential as…
‘Green economy’ pioneers power NYCE showcase
By GREGORY ZELLER // An ambitious fellowship program leveraging key “green economy” technological advancements has wrapped up its first six-month cohort. The New York Climate Exchange’s inaugural Climate Tech Fellowship…
No. 1028: A big bearhug for debut novels, offshore wind farms, CIBS philanthropy, puppies … and squirrels?
Say it ain’t snow: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as we hang tough through Winter 2026’s coldest stretch yet – and brace for a potential Long Island blizzard? That’s…
Atomic radio: SBU fills the air with nuclear options
By GREGORY ZELLER // Stony Brook University’s most ambitious pro-environmentalism platform is taking its climate-health message on the road – more specifically, to the airwaves. Known colloquially as “C4E,” SBU’s Collaborative…
No. 1026: A logical approach to innovation (with tau protein, hot pastrami and pampered pets on parade)
Second thoughts: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as we roll into the second half of the year’s second workweek. To celebrate, here’s the second Innovate Long Island Wednesday Newsletter…
Offshore wind shines as courts pummel Trump orders
By GREGORY ZELLER // With Long Island watching anxiously from the front row, 2026 is off to a rock ’em, sock ’em start in America’s energy sector – with the…
Cold start: Ram’s back – and this time, the weight is on
By TARA TERRANOVA // Ramuel “Ram” Maramara is no stranger to high ambition. And his latest project – helping to power a cleaner future with gravity-based energy storage – is…
No. 973: On hamburgers, clean energy storage and NYIT entrepreneurship, as Summer unofficially arrives
Summer job: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, and welcome back to Innovate Long Island – back on the beat after our brief holiday respite and excited to carry you…
Sufficiently gassed, Trump nixes Empire Wind shutdown
By GREGORY ZELLER // It’s safe to go back in the water. Marking a widely cheered – and sadly predictable – reversal, the Trump Administration has lifted a stop-work order…
Winds of war: Albany to battle Empire Wind shutdown
By GREGORY ZELLER // President Donald Trump’s war on alternative energy has reached Long Island’s shores – and Albany is preparing a counterattack. Suggesting in a social media post that…
No. 953: Put ’em up! We end the workweek swinging on patent battles, whale words and ERs (plus flapjacks!)
Champion Island: Well done, socioeconomic scrappers! You win the first week of March on points – and with the tough workweek ready to fall, a hard-fought weekend awaits. Just…
Beacon Wind is alive, but is it well? That’s less clear
By GREGORY ZELLER // Reports of the death of the offshore Beacon Wind project have been somewhat exaggerated. While the 2.5-giggawatt offshore-wind duplex has withdrawn its interconnection application with New…
Time to add nuclear back to Long Island’s energy mix
By MICHAEL H. SAHN // Nuclear power is back – and despite its bad history with nuclear power, Long Island needs to consider it as a progressive energy source. In…
WePower: What happened in Vegas won’t stay in Vegas
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Long Island energy enterprise left this month’s CES 2025 with a new sense of power. Energy-harvesting 2019 startup WePower Technologies, which is looking to upgrade…