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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No. 1065: On franchises, football (the European kind), famous experiments and frosted cookies (mmmmm)
We’ll be right back: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, and another high-energy, late-Spring hump day. Before we hurdle, a quick reminder that Innovate Long Island is having a crazy-busy…
No. 1016: Intuiting Inuit culture, loving our lawyers, packing workforce pipelines – and the Buck starts here!
End, middle, start: Greetings, intrepid innovators, and congratulations on completing another busy workweek, reaching the middle of Autumn and starting another well-earned weekend. For those keeping score, it’s literally…
Hochul blasts PSC over latest National Grid rate hikes
By GREGORY ZELLER // With utility rates rising across the state, Gov. Kathy Hochul is squaring off with her own Public Service Commission. Just months after hitting homeowners across Long…
No. 922: The election from Hell, Halloween and other terrors, with candy corn (yikes!) and cabbage (eek!)
Fear itself: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as harrowing horrors, ghastly ghouls, brain-dead beasts and other morbid monstrosities terrorize townsfolk and curse the countryside. It’s also the night before…
A summer of energetic schooling with SBU (and friends)
By GREGORY ZELLER // Power players from across regional industry and academia have joined forces this summer to give disadvantaged students – and Long Island socioeconomics – an energetic boost….
No. 869: Baseball begins – so do Florida, long-distance phone calls, the U.S. Navy and the new Adventureland
Play ball! Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, and not just any Wednesday but the eve of the 2024 Major League Baseball season (which technically started last week in Korea,…
NYSERDA selects Empire Wind and Sunrise Wind, again
By GREGORY ZELLER // Albany has offered conditional contracts to giant offshore-wind farms Empire Wind 1 and Sunrise Wind – and no, you’re not stuck in some kind of “Groundhog…
Walking the $225M walk at CCE’s Suffolk County Farm
By GREGORY ZELLER // A working farm known for cultivating educational opportunities is inviting visitors to take a walk and smarten up. Of course, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County…
At SCCC, a $21M STEM center with a real future
By GREGORY ZELLER // Suffolk County Community College has officially opened its Renewable Energy STEM Center, with a host of scientific disciplines and innovative workforce-development initiatives in play. Dedicated to…
AEC 2022 gets the clean-energy band back together
By GREGORY ZELLER // And now back to our regularly scheduled low-carbon economy, already in progress. Four years since last gathering in person – and 14 months since a post-pandemic…
No. 25: Robert Catell – With Energy To Spare
Robert Catell is a living legend of the regional energy sector and an iconic socioeconomic innovator, across Long Island and beyond. From his days as a Brooklyn Union Gas junior…
Energy Department veteran to lead wind consortium
By GREGORY ZELLER // A former U.S. Department of Energy bigwig will temporarily lead an ambitious New York-based consortium focused on maximizing the nation’s promising offshore-wind industry. The National Offshore…
Busier-than-ever Island Harvest unveils new HQ, logo
By GREGORY ZELLER // One of Long Island’s leading social-services organizations has a new look and a new home base, refreshing its arsenal for the ongoing battle against food insecurity….
In business and in life, it’s always who you know
By PAUL SCHWARTZ // Building a network is critical to any business’ success – consider ThermoLift, which wouldn’t be where it is today without this foundation of entrepreneurism. Network-building is…