Clearly, water protection is important to Putnam residents. On short notice, more than 60 County residents wrote their legislators to urge a ‘no’...
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Dear County Legislature: Please protect our water.
Sustainable Putnam was concerned to learn of County Legislator Amy Sayegh’s proposed resolution urging Governor Hochul to veto Senator Pete Harckham’s water protection...
Getting to Hope, Part II
In Getting to Hope Part I, Joe described two forms of hope: one passive, the other active, based on the book Active Hope: How to...
Getting to Hope…and staying there
On this Independence Day weekend, Sustainable Putnam founder Joe Montuori shares some thoughts about hope and hopelessness, a topic that arises again and...