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Clearwater gets grant for education and boatbuilding center Museum, Clearwater unite to build Home Port
The Poughkeepsie Journal/ 1.21.2012
Hudson River Sloop Clearwater and Hudson River Maritime Museum have received a $400,000 grant to cover the costs of building a Kingston Home Port and Education Center on Rondout Creek. … The grant from the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation was announced in December as part of a new economic development initiative adding up to $67 million for 61 mid-Hudson Valley projects. …
Local environmental leaders applaud Hinchey (video)
By Beth Croughan/ YNN News/ 01.20.2012
During his long political career, one of Congressman Maurice Hinchey’s signature causes has been protecting the environment. Hinchey spent 14 of his 18 years in the State Assembly as the Chairman of the Environmental Conservation Committee and continued to push for environmental protections in Congress. On the heels of his retirement announcement, our Beth Croughan met with environmental leaders in the Hudson Valley about Hinchey’s impact. …
Invitation To Sail The River
By Dave Lucas / WAMC /1.20.2012
BEACON, NY (WAMC) – A unique opportunity awaits a select group of undergraduate students this summer – a venture titled “River University” that includes sailing the Hudson River aboard the sloop Clearwater, in a bid to foster environmental awareness. Hudson Valley Bureau Chief Dave Lucas reports. …
New York State Wins Review of Nuclear Plant Accident Plans
Environmental New Service / 1.4. 2012
NEW YORK, New York, – The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has rejected a bid by Entergy, owner and operator of the Indian Point nuclear power plant on the Hudson River, to reverse an order to complete legally-required analyses of the facility’s severe accident mitigation measures before it can be relicensed. … In July, New York Attorney General Schneiderman’s office won that decision by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Atomic Safety and Licensing Board …
Indian Point Licensing Renewal Challenged
By Dave Lucas / WAMC / 12.30.2011
BUCHANAN, NY (WAMC) – An environmental group has filed a report with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Atomic Safety and Licensing Board raising new questions pertaining to Entergy’s application to relicense the Indian Point nuclear power plants for another 20 years. Hudson Valley Bureau Chief Dave Lucas reports. …Last summer, Clearwater broke new ground when the Atomic Safety Licensing Board accepted its Environmental Justice contention for a hearing the first contention of its kind ever to be heard in a nuclear relicensing proceeding Hudson River Sloop Clearwater is one of three parties challenging Indian Point’s relicensing before the NRC’s Atomic Safety and Licensing Board.
Is Indian Point Nuclear Plant Safe For Another 20 Years?
By Shifra Mincer / AOL Energy / 12.29.2011
Even as global nuclear power prospects have been overshadowed by events in the past year, US nuclear power has remained relatively steady. But controversy following the Fukushima disaster is starting to impact operations at existing nuclear units as well as permitting for proposed facilities. Particularly controversial has been upstate New York’s Indian Point nuclear plant run by Entergy in Buchanan, New York. As the plant reaches its fortieth year and Entergy applies for a new 20-year license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, several key stakeholders are trying to block the way. …
Clearwater, challenging Indian Point relicensing, alleges evacuation plan biased against certain groups
Mid-Hudson News Network / 12.26. 2011
BUCHANAN — The environmental advocacy group Clearwater has filed a report with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Atomic Safety and Licensing Board that raises a new issue regarding Entergy’s application to relicense the Indian Point nuclear power plants in Westchester County for 20 years. … The group points to research that it says shows the plant’s emergency evacuation plan would have “disproportionate effects on people of color, people with low incomes, disabilities and/or limited mobility.” … Clearwater Environmental Director Manna Jo Greene noted potential evacuation difficulties in the event of an emergency by people who cannot afford private transportation and must rely on public transit.
Kingston Planning Board OKs winter home port for Clearwater (video)
By Paul Kirby / Daily Freeman / 12.13.2011
KINGSTON, NY — The city Planning Board has approved a proposal by the Hudson River Maritime Museum to build a barn-like structure at edge of the Rondout Creek as a wintertime home port for the Sloop Clearwater. … The board voted unanimously on Monday to approve the construction of the structure, which is expected to be put up in September 201, according to Jack Weeks, chairman of the museum’s Building Committee. The barn will be at the west end of the museum’s creekfront property. …
“Re-gifting” state grants in in time for the holidays
Mid-Hudson News Network / 12.10.2011
ALBANY – We’ve all heard of re-gifting when we give someone a present we received from someone else. Many of the ballyhooed grants announced by the governor this week as a new economic development initiative were essentially grants that would have been announced individually, but were simply repackaged to add up to the $67 million announced for 61 Mid-Hudson Valley projects as well as millions more in other areas of the state. … There was $400,000 from the state Parks Department to be applied toward the price of building the elevator on the east side of the Hudson River to the Walkway Over the Hudson, $400,000 to develop a new home port and education center for the Sloop Clearwater and $125,000 for Scenic Hudson to develop the West Point Foundry Preserve trail in Cold Spring. …
Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie Occupy Wall Street, Perform (VIDEO)
Huffington Post / 10.22.2011
Seeger, Guthrie join Occupy Wall Street rally
CBS News / 10.22.2011
Folk music legend Pete Seeger and ’60s folk singer Arlo Guthrie joined Occupy Wall Street demonstrators in their campaign against corporate greed while residents near the protest park encampment pushed to regain some peace and quiet in their neighborhood. …
Folk singer Pete Seeger, 92, joins the protesters as over one third of Americans back Occupy Wall Street movement
By Associated Press / 10.22.2011
Folk music and 1960s protest legend Pete Seeger has joined in the Occupy Wall Street protest, replacing his instruments with two canes as he marches with throngs of people to Columbus Circle. … The 92-year-old Seeger occasionally sang ‘We Shall Not be Moved’ and other anthems of protest as about a thousand people walked peacefully Friday and police watched from the sidelines. …
Sloop Clearwater brings its message to Hudson
By Audra Jornov / Register Star, Hudson-Catskill Newspapers / 10.11.11
HUDSON, NY — The work of Beacon folk music legend and environmental activist Pete Seeger is being carried on through the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater sailing ship that anchored at Hudson’s waterfront on Monday. … Seeger was concerned in 1966 with pollution in the river and set a goal to save the river by building a boat and taking people up and down the river so they could experience the Hudson and all it had to offer. He built the Clearwater Sloop and achieved that goal. …
Advocates Call On Cuomo To Prioritize Clean Energy Resources If Indian Point Is Closed
Offshore wind replacement power option for NYC
by Alliance for Clean Energy New York/ 10.06.2011
Environmentalists and clean energy supporters are calling on Governor Cuomo to replace power from the Indian Point Energy Center with clean energy resources, including solar power, onshore wind, energy efficiency initiatives, and especially large-scale offshore wind power, if he is successful in his quest to close Indian Point. … “Relicensing Indian Point would be like playing Russian roulette with our future,” said Manna Jo Greene, environmental director of Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc. “In this post-Fukushima world, transitioning to a green energy economy should be our most urgent national and statewide priority. We support Governor Cuomo’s commitment to find a way close the aging, leaking nuclear facility at Indian Point once and for all. …
‘Riverport’ sees Rondout’s past as its future
By Lynn Woods / Kingston Times /9.29.2011
Hosted by Ann Loeding of the Friends of Rondout and Kate Mitchell, executive director of the Hudson River Maritime Museum, a Sept. 19 “discussion,” as it was billed, about the future development of the Rondout waterfront aboard a restored Pennsylvania railroad barge berthed at the museum was part reality check, part visioning session, and part call to action. … Clearwater board President Allan Shope, in his introductory comments about the various programs he’d been involved with in the past two years, made no effort to pull the proverbial wool over anyone’s eyes. “Go to the Department of the Interior, and there’s no money to do anything, no partnerships,” he said, referring to his disappointment with the federal “Great Outdoors” program, which, he said, turned out to be just a lot of hot air. …
NRC rejects suspending Indian Point relicensing for Fukushima review
By Greg Clary/ The Journal News-LoHud.com / 9.11.2011
Federal regulators have denied petitions of Hudson River Sloop Clearwater and other groups that sought to suspend relicensing of nuclear plants like Indian Point until the impact of the Japanese crisis could be assessed. …
Anti-Nuclear Protest Uses Bikes, Boats and a Mock Evacuation of NYC
By Alex Davies for treehugger.com / 8.10.11
At 7:45 yesterday morning, a group of cyclists rode from Manhattan’s Lower East Side to Grand Central Terminal. They were activists, wearing white jumpsuits painted with anti-nuclear slogans and pinwheels tacked on the hoods to represent clean energy. This ride was the first stage in a day of events that included a mock evacuation and a boat ride up the Hudson, calling for the shut down Indian Point, the aging nuclear power plant just 35 miles from New York City. …
Anti-Indian Point groups take message from NYC upriver
Mid Hudson News/ 8.9.2011
NEW YORK – Clearwater and New York City environmental group “Time’s Up! took their “shut down Indian Point” message from Manhattan to the nuclear power plant in what one member said was an old fashioned rally. …
Cyclists will Save Us from Indian Point Nuclear Catastrophe
By John Del Signore/ Gothamist News / 8.9.2011
As in all things, it falls to the cyclists to save NYC from perdition. Today a group of bike-riding activists dressed in colorful jump suits with pinwheels on their heads rode their bikes from the Lower East Side to Grand Central Station, as part of a demonstration against the Indian Point nuclear plant. Located approximately 25 miles from NYC, the controversial facility has been under increased scrutiny ever since an earthquake in Japan has caused a little “situation” at a nuclear power plant there. Today Times Up! and other activists staged a theatrical protest to urge Governor Cuomo to shut the plant down. …
Shut Down before Meltdown Ride
Blog by Benjamin Shepard/ Time’s Up / 8.10. 2011
The last ten years of my adult life has included days and days of running around Garrison and the West Side of New York, NY overlooking the majestic Hudson River, a swatch of water which has made a comeback after years of pollution.Through organizing, lawsuits, cleanups, and cultural advocacy by groups such as Clearwater and Riverkeeper, the river is being relocated as a space for work and play, not simply industrial waste and nuclear power. … As a member of Times Up!, a quarter century old environmental group volunteer for, I havewatched activism take many forms.Over the last decade, Times Up! has volunteered doing bike valet at the Clearwater Festival at Croton Harmon. I’ve enjoyed watching Pete Seeger sing there, along with Arlo Guthrie, Taj Mahal, and many others. …
Fallkill Creek’s revival in city charted; Clearwater studies better public access
By Michael Valkys/ Poughkeepsie Journal / 7.28.2011
A community effort led by two environmental groups aims to make the Fallkill Creek in the City of Poughkeepsie more accessible and attractive for residents and visitors. Beacon-based Hudson River Sloop Clearwater and the Fallkill Watershed Committee are developing a master plan for the city portion of the creek. … A public ideas session was held this month, and more are planned for August and September. …Ryan Palmer, Clearwater’s Green Cities Project and Fallkill Watershed coordinator, said the creek is a natural resource that can offer much to the community. “It’s underutilized and not up to its full potential right now,” Palmer said. “We see the creek as a resource to bring people into the heart of the city.” …
Encourage Children to Play (and Learn) Outside
By Dan Shapley / The Daily Green / 7.21.2011
The introduction of the No Child Left Inside Act of 2011 this week reminds us that kids need environmental education, citizen science projects and time to simply play outdoors. … A broad coalition of environmental and educational groups supports the bill, including the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, which educates students about the environment and promotes youth leadership in inner cities along New York’s Hudson River. (Pictured: Students from Forrestal Elementary School in Beacon, N.Y., learn aboard the historic Sloop Clearwater.)
Volunteers from near and far to do Main Street cleanup
By Michael Valkys/ Poughkeepsie Journal / 6.27.2011
A City of Poughkeepsie organization will spruce up the Main Street corridor today during a beautification effort. …As part of its Middle Main Revitalization initiative, city-based Hudson River Housing will host the event to remove trash from the Fallkill Creek, improve a vacant lot in the 500 block of Main and paint murals on two boarded-up properties. …
Clearwater festival brings music to deaf fans with stage-side sign-language-interpreters
By Karen Angel/ NY Daily News /6.22.2011
As folk singer Dar Williams croons onstage at the Clearwater music festival last weekend, another impassioned performance takes place just to her left… Kathleen Taylor, a sign-language interpreter from Brooklyn, is throwing her hands, body and face into communicating Williams’ music. …
Got Activism? Clearwater Festival 2011 Breaks Records
By Vivian Carter/ Oy Vey Rockaway /6.22.2011
They say that rot is rampant in the social fabric, and all the heroes have died. A decade ago, columnist Russell Baker commented aptly that the few American heroes left in sports, politics and business all “came down with terminal feet of clay.” … I’m happy to report that one hero is still standing tall on feet of iron. At 92 years of age, Pete Seeger continues to tower over the annual music and environmental festival celebrating the mighty river—The Great Hudson River Revival, which broke attendance records this past weekend in Westchester’s Croton Point Park. …
IBM volunteers mark company’s 100th anniversary
Times Herald Record /6.21.2011
On June 15, IBM and Hudson River Sloop Clearwater partnered for a unique volunteer day, “100 volunteers for 100 years,” in honor of IBM’s 100th anniversary. IBMers put in a workday making repairs and improvements to the Clearwater property in Beacon. Pictured here building rain barrels to capture rainwater runoff are, from left, Andy Monshaw, Marshal Miller and George Hefferon of IBM.
Sights and Sounds of the Clearwater Festival
By Steve Galazzo/ Ossining Patch.com /6.20.2011
There was music, activism and plenty of environmental awareness at this weekend’s Clearwater’s Great Hudson River Revival. …
Clearwater-Logged: Mother-centric reflections on Rivertown life, and notes from our river’s grand environmental music festival
By Krista Madsen/ Tarrytown-Sleepy Hollow Patch.com /6.20.2011
The following is an account of Clearwater’s Great Hudson River Revival music and environmental festival which took place June 18 and 19, at Croton Point Park in Croton-on-Hudson: 10:12 a.m. – Inching with the others toward the Croton Point Park entrance on Sunday in our sorry Subaru Imprezza with missing headlight and damaged hood from the tree limb that fell on us in Tarrytown’s CVS parking lot. …
Great music, considerable activism on display at Clearwater
By Will David/ The Journal News-LoHud.com /6.19.2011
Slideshow by Xavier Mascareñas
Croton-on-Hudson — More than 15,000 people from all over the world were expecting to attend the annual Great Hudson River Revival Music & Environmental Festival at Croton Point Park this Father’s Day weekend. …Many of the musicians performed with their younger family members in keeping with this year’s theme of “Clearwater Generations.” …”People like the idea of ‘generations,’ ” said Steve Lurie, the festival director.
Clearwater Festival 2011- Photo Gallery
Chet Gordon/ Times Herald Record /6.19.2011
LIVE: Clearwater Hudson River Revival @ Croton Point Park, 6/18-19/11
By Rudy Lu/ Nippertown News / June 2011
Pete Seeger “Clearwater Generations” was the theme of the 33rd annual Clearwater Hudson River Revival Folk Festival at Croton Point Park in Croton-on-Hudson. The festival showcased some of America’s greatest folk music families performing both together and separately. Also featured were over 100 other musical acts, playing music that ranged from children’s songs and sea shanties to free jazz, indie rock and rap. And it was all spread across five stages, a storytelling area and sing-along area over the course of two days. …
Clearwater Festival Preview
Sarah LaDuke/ WAMC-Northeast Public Radio /6.16.2011
Sarah speaks with Festival Director Steve Lurie about the Clearwater Festival.
New York ‘s Annual Clearwater Festival: Music, Fun and Conservation for All Generations!
A SoundPress.net Feature Article by Rich and Laura Lynch / June 2011
They were really cleaning up this year at the Clearwater Festival in Croton-on-Hudson. The 2011 edition of the Great Hudson River Revival was exhilarating, inspiring and informative. With an expanded folk-centric line-up and a theme to help span the generation gaps – the yearly environmental music event set an all-time high for attendance during its three-day run this June. …
Clearwater Fest offers awareness, music
Mark Zaretsky/ New Haven Register /6.16. 2011
CROTON-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — The festival that sparked an environmental movement that helped save the Hudson River, Clearwater’s Great Hudson River Revival, will unfold once again on the banks of that river this weekend as one of the oldest music festivals in the county — and the nation’s largest annual environmental celebration — rolls on. …
IBM workers lend a hand to community’s nonprofits
Craig Wolf / Poughkeepsie Journal / 6.15.2011
A thousand IBMers fanned out to mid-Hudson Valley nonprofit sites Wednesday to do good works. …It might have been what former President George H.W. Bush once called “a thousand points of light,” but for toiling executives, engineers, manufacturers and others, it was more like a thousand pints of sweat. …
On Strawberries and Riverfront Revivals
By Andrew C. Revkin/ Dot Earth – New York Times /6.13.2011
I had the pleasure of joining Pete Seeger, the Grammy-winning Rivertown Kids and some friends in some music on Sunday at the annual Beacon Sloop Club Strawberry Festival, which is held in a park on the Hudson River that was once a landfill. I was invited to speak on the remarkable ability of landscapes to recover ecological vigor and aesthetic appeal even after extraordinary degradation. There’s a bit more on what I said below.
Folk Heroes’ Kin Keep Legacy but Carve Own Path
By Philip Lutz/ New York Times /6.10.2011
When Tao Seeger took the stage at the Tarrytown Music Hall in April at a benefit for the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater environmental organization, he quipped that he hoped his grandfather wouldn’t come after him with an ax. He then began a free-form banjo performance whose electronic effects owed more to Jimi Hendrix than to the folk-singing legend Pete Seeger. …
Home port; Clearwater, Maritime Museum seal deal to make Rondout sloop’s base
Kingston Times /6.9.2011
Around 5 p.m. last Saturday, June 4, the sloop Clearwater sailed up the Rondout Creek and rather majestically docked at the Hudson River Maritime Museum, a crowd of people aboard. It was the museum’s third annual River Day celebration — another historic boat, the replica of the Henry Hudson’s Half Moon, was already in port — but the arrival of the Clearwater had particular significance this day: It was coming home, so to speak. …
River, song, dream: The Clearwater Festival
By Kerry Dexter/ Perceptive Travel /6.8.2011
Across the years he’s been carrying his music around the world, one of the things you could count on at a Pete Seeger concert was that he’d get people singing along, whether he was playing in his home turf of New York state or in Australia or Africa or Japan, whether he was playing a famous concert hall or a small gathering or teaching kids in a classroom. That is still true, and it is likely to happen again as Seeger joins his oldest grandson, Tao Seeger, on stage at the Clearwater Festival at Croton Point Park in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, on June 18th and 19th. …
Sloop Clearwater calls Kingston home
By Mid-Hudson News Network /6.6.2011
Thanks to a partnership between the Hudson River Maritime Museum and environmental organization Clearwater, the Sloop Clearwater now calls the Kingston waterfront its homeport. … The formal announcement was made Saturday by Hudson River Maritime Museum Executive Director Kate Mitchell, capping the museum’s third annual River Day festivities. …
The Hudson River Sloop Clearwater and Hudson River Maritime Museum partner
YNN Television /6.4.2011
The Hudson River Sloop Clearwater and Hudson River Maritime Museum partner together to celebrate the Third Annual River Day in Kingston. They also announced plans for a Homeport and Education Center on the Kingston Waterfront. …The sloop, launched in 1969, has never had a permanent home. The organizations will share responsibility in designing and constructing a boat shop and education center. …They will also work together to raise the funds necessary to complete the project. Congressman Maurice Hinchey says he is pleased to see the partnership happen. …
Clearwater to spend winters in Kingston
Michael Novison/ Times Herald-Record /6.5.2011
The Hudson River’s only vintage sailboat has found a permanent winter home — the city’s Rondout Creek. …”They have a dock,” said Clearwater President Allan Shope. “And we have a boat.” … The environmentally-themed Clearwater will reside at a to-be-constructed 67-by-35-foot shed starting in winter 2012. The $1 million boat shop and education center will be on Hudson River Maritime Museum property, and will be paid for by the museum, Clearwater, and a $125,000 grant secured by Assemblyman Kevin Cahill, D-Kingston. …
Kingston event celebrates river, Clearwater
Daily Freeman /6.5.2011
The Rondout Creek waterfront in Downtown Kingston was the setting on Saturday for River Day, an event co-sponsored by the Hudson River Maritime Museum and the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater. …
Kingston’s ship comes in
Geddy Sveikauskas/ Hudson Valley Times /10.07.2010
Agreement between the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater and Hudson River Maritime Museum to make Rondout Creek the sloop’s home port represents an opportunity to propel the area’s water-related cultural assets to a whole new level …
‘People First’ means environment first DEC commish Martens pushes Cuomo’s agenda — and agency’s — in Kingston visit
By Lynn Woods/ Hudson Valley Times-Kingston Times /5.9.2011
When newly appointed New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens spoke briefly last Friday, May 13, at the Hudson River Maritime Museum, he hardly mentioned the environment, instead focusing on Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s ‘People First’ agenda. …
EPA Honors New York Environmental Leaders
EPA Website /4.29.2011
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced that it has honored 14 individuals, organizations or businesses from New York with Environmental Quality Awards for their achievements protecting public health and the environment. EPA Regional Administrator Judith Enck was joined by Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez to present the awards to this year’s recipients at a ceremony at EPA’s offices in Manhattan. … Manna Jo Greene, Beacon: As a community leader for the environment, peace and social justice, Manna Jo Greene has been an integral part of the ongoing and recent success of the Hudson River General Electric PCBs removal, and the promotion and implementation of green infrastructure practices within local communities. As the environmental director for the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Manna Jo actively promotes green building and landscaping practices and to date has built a model, solar-powered sustainable living resource center. …
Experts tout ways to replace electricity from Indian Pt.
By Greg Clary/ The Journal News-LoHud.com /4.26.2011
GARRISON — Three renewable-energy experts on Monday laid out ways to replace the electricity that Indian Point produces, but pointed out that doing so will take major changes in the way energy is produced and used. … “Over time, we expect energy use to go up,” said Karl Michael, an energy analyst for the New York State Research and Development Authority. “It’s just been a fact of life we’ve been wrestling with anytime we try to plan. Using energy efficiently is a wonderful thing, but they keep inventing more big-screen TVs.” …
Before Earth Day, there was Pete Seeger
Michael Dalzell/ Newark Unitarian Universalism Examiner /4.22.2011
It has taken four decades, but in the years since the first Earth Day, preservation of the environment has become part of the fabric of life in the Garden State. Recycling has evolved from a quaint activity for Cub Scouts working toward their Wolf badge to being the law in most New Jersey towns. … Mainstreaming a societal give-a-darn about the environment — and turning that concern into action — didn’t occur overnight. Nor did it begin with the first Earth Day, though its inaugural commemoration on April 22, 1970, was an important milestone. Environmentalism came out of the closet with the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring in 1962, and slowly picked up steam after her death through the folk music revival of the 1960s. … One of those folk artists to carry the torch for the environment in those days was the legendary Pete Seeger. …
Clearwater Generations: An Earth Day Celebration to Benefit Clearwater
By Kerry Dexter/ CommunityMediaonHudson.com /4.25.2011
A group of fine musicians gathered to celebrate Earth Day in the Hudson Valley, New York. Pete Seeger, American icon and folk legend and Clearwater founder, along with grandson Tao Seeger lead a line up of musicians for a benefit concert, Clearwater Generations: An Earth Day Celebration, which took place April 22, 2011, at the Tarrytown Music Hall in Tarrytown, New York. …
Jackson Browne, Tom Chapin, Pete Seeger, Suzanne Vega, Dan Zanes, et al. Set for Clearwater Festival
By Dan Bacalzo/ TheatreMania.com /4.25. 2011
Suzanne Vega, currently appearing Off-Broadway in Carson McCullers Talks About Love, will be among the headliners for this year’s Great Hudson River Revival (also known as Clearwater Festival) at Croton Point Park in Croton-on-Hudson, NY, June 18 and 19. …
Pete Seeger, experts discuss environment, Earth Day
By John W. Barry/ Poughkeepsie Journal /4.21.2011
The Hudson River. It’s a symbol of strength, an icon of the valley and a vibrant reminder of the importance of protecting the environment. …The sky and the river were gray as the wind whipped hard outside the Beacon Sloop Club on a recent Wednesday, when another iconic symbol of the environmental movement, Pete Seeger, sat down with the Poughkeepsie Journal to talk about Earth Day, which is Friday. …And, of course, he brought his banjo. …
Seeger and Friends, Newly Inspired, Will Meet for Benefit
By Phillip Lutz/ New York Times /4.15.2011
When the remaining giants of American folk music and their graying audience gather, the weight of history hangs heavy in the room. Memories of shared civil rights marches and antiwar rallies come flooding back, as do the inevitable questions about how the language of dissent they forged together can remain relevant. …
Clearwater Power Sail’ seeks alternatives to nuclear
By Greg Clary/ The Journal News-LoHud.com /4.6.2011
Slideshow by Joe Larese
The sloop Clearwater took its first sail of the season Wednesday morning, tacking back and forth across the Hudson River near Indian Point, while passengers talked about a future without the nuclear plant. … “We cannot afford the nuclear option,” said Jeff Rumpf, executive director of the Hudson River environmental group, Clearwater, whose icon is the 106-foot wooden sloop. “We are finally at a tipping point in the history of nuclear power and must move forward in advancing a renewable energy agenda. …
Clearwater conducts “Power Sail” to discuss Indian Point
MidHudsonNews.com /4.7.2011
Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, the organization, assembled environmentalists, scientists, public officials and students to take to the Hudson River aboard their famed schooner Clearwater and discuss the Indian Point nuclear power plant and alternative forms of energy production. ..The sail was full of visual imagery as the boat passed in front of the nuclear plant as song and discussion continued. …
U.S. PIRG urges freeze on new nuclear reactors, relicensing
By Greg Clary/ The Journal News – LoHud.com /3.29. 2011
A consumer and environmental advocacy group urged the Obama administration Tuesday to freeze construction of new nuclear reactors and halt relicensing of the
oldest of the nation’s 104 plants until safety lessons from the Japanese nuclear crisis can be absorbed.
Environmentalists call for halt to nuclear power plant construction, relicensing
By Paul Post/ The Saratogian /3.29.2011
Environmentalists on Tuesday called on the Obama Administration to impose a moratorium on nuclear power plant construction and relicensing of existing plants while conducting a comprehensive safety review of all 104 operating U.S. reactors. … A report called “Unacceptable Risk: Two Decades of ‘Close Calls,’ Leaks and Other Problems at U.S. Nuclear Reactors” has been released by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, less than three weeks after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that triggered a Japanese nuclear disaster. …
Seeger introduced King to ‘We Shall Overcome’ in 1957
By John W. Barry/ Poughkeepsie Journal /2.1.2011
A gospel song adopted by the labor movement in the early 20th century, “We Shall Overcome,” later evolved into the anthem of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s…Decades later, “We Shall Overcome” — forever linked with the struggle of blacks for civil rights — has become a global song of defiance…But its roots as a vehicle for social change can be traced to Tennessee in 1957, when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. heard “We Shall Overcome” for the first time — performed by Dutchess Junction resident Pete Seeger. …
Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, America’s Flagship Environmental Organization
By Julia Church for Windcheck Magazine /January 2011
There was a time when the Hudson River ran many colors because it was rank with raw sewage, toxic chemicals, oil and pollution. Fish had disappeared over many miles of its length. In 1966, folk music legend and environmental activist Pete Seeger, in despair over the pollution of his beloved Hudson River, announced plans to “build a boat to save the river.” Seeger, along with many other concerned individuals, believed that a majestic replica of the sloops that sailed the Hudson in the 18th and 19th centuries would bring people to the river where they could experience its beauty and be moved to preserve it. …
Sower of Seeds: Pete Seeger
By Peter Aaron/ Chronogram /1.28.2011
Pete Seeger has retired. Or, rather, that’s been the plan. But, even at 91, it hasn’t quite happened yet…“Oh, I’d like to. But, well, look over there,” he says, pointing to a low couch in the hand-built Beacon home he’s shared with his wife, Toshi, and their family for over 60 years. Save for an open sitting spot at the far end, the couch, as well as the coffeetable directly in front of it, are thickly blanketed with sheets of mostly handwritten paper. “Letters,” he drones, repeating the word a half dozen more times. “Every day, letters. I don’t like to do it this way, but I have to use a form letter now to answer them all. There’s just too many to keep up with. A woman comes in once a week to help me with them, Sarah Elisabeth. Her husband’s a carpenter, works in the city. A good union man. …
Pete Seeger — A River Runs Through This Folk-Music Icon
By Tim Murphy/ Boating US /January 2011
For two-thirds of his 91 years, the treasured American folk-music star Pete Seeger has led a turbulent public life at the confluence of music and politics. Last year, when a sold-out crowd of 20,000 fans gathered to celebrate his 90th birthday at Madison Square Garden in New York City, Seeger sent the proceeds to the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater. …
Our Hero: Manna Jo Greene of Hudson River Sloop Clearwater
By Dulce Fernandes/ ecocentricblog.org /12.16.2010
Manna Jo Greene is always busy. Really, really busy. When she finally found time to talk to me, it was a Friday evening and she was driving to a well-earned massage (no need to freak out, she was using a safe hands-free phone). …
Famous boat makes stop in Norwalk
By John Nickerson/ CTPost.com /11.14. 2010
NORWALK — The sloop that helped save the Hudson River and wrote the book on the way many children and adults in this part of the world are taught about Long Island Sound through organizations such as The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk and SoundWaters in Stamford, is paying a working visit to Norwalk…
Red Hook to GWB or Bust! Hudson River Sloop Clearwater’s 2010 Pumpkin Sail
By Vivian Carter/ OyVey Rockaway /11.3. 2010
The group’s tagline is: “Creating the Next Generation of Environmental Leaders.” You can say that again! …Since its maiden voyage in 1969, the 106-foot long Hudson River Sloop Clearwater has welcomed aboard more than half a million young people and hundreds of thousands of adults for its signature environmental education program …
