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Fishkill Ridge
Community Heritage |
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 Fishkill
Ridge Community Heritage recognizes the importance of keeping
certain issues in front of our elected officials and neighbors.
Issues that effect our day-to-day living, and the future living
of our children.
One of the best ways to do this is writing
letters to the editor of the Poughkeepsie
Journal, New
York Times, Southern Dutchess
News, or The Putnam County
News and Recorder. We encourage you to add your voice to those
already speaking out to preserve our community’s heritage
in and around Fishkill Ridge. |
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Historically
Speaking, By Malcolm Mills, Director, East Fishkill Historical
Society
We think of skyscraper buildings as being the ultimate
of architectural prowess, but these lofty twentieth century structures
do not compare with beauty and grandeur of old churches. Religious
structures also have romantic sounding features, such as flying
buttresses, Norman arches, twisted spires, whispering gallery
and gargoyles not found in modern towers. Read
more…
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Water
as a Human Right
Bonn, Germany, 15 July 2004 (IUCN) The call to
declare water a human right has been growing over the years. Until
now, the content and scope of a right to water has not been clearly
defined in international law and has not been explicitly recognised
as a fundamental human right. Read
article…
Water
as a Human Right This is a PDF publication writen by John
Scanlon, Angela Cassar, and Noémi Nemes.
Earthjustice
has worked extensively with the United Nations to establish and
protect the right to a healthy environment as a basic human right.
NEW: Read what the
Dutchess County Board of Health has to say about mandatory well
testing in Dutchess County…
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Water, and Competing
Rural Interests, Everywhere
New York Times article; Far from its skyscrapers
and subways, the city has begun leasing hundreds of acres of farmland
and forests around its drinking water reservoirs in the Catskills
and the Hudson Valley for traditional rural uses. City officials
are even considering marketing a line of maple candies, with the
label "made in the New York City watershed." Read
more...
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Dead Zones
Forty-three of the world’s 146 known dead
zones occur in U.S. coastal waters. The largest dead zone is in
the Baltic Sea.
The second largest is in the Gulf of Mexico, encompassing
a 5,800 square mile area that varies in size, at times approaching
the size of the State of New Jersey which covers an area of 8,722
square miles.
The dead zone leaves in its wake water that is
so devoid of oxygen that sea life cannot live in it, reports Reuters.
Pollution, especially the increased use of nitrate-based
fertilizers by farmers in the Mississippi watershed, is
to blame. The nitrates feed algae blooms that use up oxygen
and make the water uninhabitable. Read
more...
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