What’s Up North Blog

We are inspired. And we are grateful. On September 29, over 200 people gathered together at Tucker Farms, less than 10 miles down the road from Saranac Lake, in the heart of the Adirondack North Country. Golden corn fields, historic...

You might be wondering what whales have to do with a blog on local energy. After 25 years of working in the environmental field, I believe one thing to be true: all environmental problems can be solved by modelling human...

Lauren Richard, Small Business Services Coordinator Danielle Delaini, Entrepreneurial Program Director Kelly’s Story It is before 6 am and I am up packing lunches, half dressed and less than half awake. I reheat old coffee in the microwave and suck...

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization. — Mahatma Ghandi A little over five years ago my wife Erin and I visited the Adirondacks for the very first time. Prior to...

As I waited in line for a mouth-watering local-food lunch of baked potatoes, butter, cheese, sour cream, ground beef, salsa and butternut squash soup and chatted with a colleague who lives nearly three hours from me, I found myself pondering...