Meet the polymer goop that just might save the world
By GREGORY ZELLER // A New York City-based energy-efficiency innovator is earning rave reviews from PSEG Long Island for its cutting-edge approach to HVAC productivity – potentially huge news for…
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Big milestone for innovative workforce/hunger initiative
By GREGORY ZELLER // An innovative effort to strengthen the regional workforce while addressing food insecurity has reached a notable plateau. Melville-based Island Harvest Food Bank recently graduated the 10th…
Albany eyes preparedness as ’23 storm season surges
By GREGORY ZELLER // Bring it on, Nature – Kathy “Blood and Guts” Hochul and her regiments are ready for peak hurricane season. With the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s…
LIPA will modernize, slowly, with Time-of-Day Rates
By GREGORY ZELLER // A sliding scale of new Long Island Power Authority electricity rates will help customers save money – but don’t count on lower utility bills just yet….
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…
Fresh blood adds to the LIA Board’s impressive cred
By GREGORY ZELLER // Plenty of names you know will round out the Long Island Association’s beefed-up Board of Directors. The Melville-based networking and business-development organization has elected seven new…
NSF backs SBU’s quest for AI-controlled power grid
By GREGORY ZELLER // Handing control of the national power grid over to artificial intelligence? What could possibly go wrong? Remain calm, humans. What sounds like the opening of every…
Innovation in the Age of Coronavirus
Vaccinations are ramping up and the pandemic is winding down, but COVID-19 continues to reshape the world around us. And myriad Long Island forces – large and small, corporate and…
Today, tomorrow meet in ULC, Science Center alliance
By GREGORY ZELLER // An innovative alliance will unite one of Long Island’s top robotics companies with a Riverhead nonprofit on a mission to prepare young learners for the 21st…
No. 455: Kalikow knows, Empire invades, Rod Stewart stays on track – and why WOS is A-OK with PSEG
The final countdown: The clock is ticking, dear readers, as we speed toward the climactic conclusion of another busy workweek. To set a proper Friday mood, straight from 1986…
Filling tummies, and hearts, with 2M pounds of love
By GREGORY ZELLER // It’s been a bountiful 2019 for Island Harvest Food Bank, which will ultimately distribute nearly 2 million pounds of locally sourced fruits and vegetables this year…
No. 400: The big four-oh-oh! (Starring Hofstra’s cleverest, Stony Brook’s smartest and Old Westbury’s most creative)
That’s a lot of nuts! Welcome, dear friends, to a special anniversary edition of your Innovate Long Island newsletter. Yes, this is our 400th edition (not counting our calendar…
With PPA, a fuel-cell park grows in Yaphank
By GREGORY ZELLER // A global player in fuel-cell solutions for energy issues has signed the first of three long-term power-purchase agreements under a tariff program administered by PSEG Long…
Partners pump $18M into Jones Beach education center
By GREGORY ZELLER // The comprehensive revitalization of Jones Beach State Park will continue with the construction of a multimillion-dollar conservation-and-sustainability educational facility. The Jones Beach Energy and Nature Education…
No. 344: Blowing in from Denmark, droning on at PSEG and star trekking in Garden City (plus, your Cocoa Puffs origin story)
Friday morning and the mood is high: Welcome to the end of another busy workweek, dear readers. It’s Sept. 28 out there, and the first full weekend of autumn is…