What’s Up North Blog

By Melanie Reding, Adirondack Diversity Initiative Associate Director Earlier this month, on Monday, January 15, people across the United States celebrated Martin Luther King (MLK) Day. Our social media channels were full of feel-good MLK Jr. quotes about love and...

by Mahala Nyberg After two years, ANCA’s Center for Pandemic Response (ANCA CPR) program has reached its close. As 2023 also comes to an end, we wanted to take some time to reflect on the project, what we learned and...

by John Culpepper, Katie Culpepper and Jennifer Perry; Compost for Good Compost for Good has developed a simple, effective and inexpensive food scrap composting system that could revolutionize the small-scale composting world. [caption id="attachment_7007" align="alignright" width="390"] Camp Dudley's Executive Director...

By Jeisanelly Hernandez, Adirondack Diversity Initiative Fellow As an Upstate Institute Research Fellow this summer I worked with the Adirondack Diversity Initiative (ADI), a program of the Adirondack North Country Association (ANCA). ADI’s mission is to create an Adirondack Park...