Below is a listing of activities, organizations and web sites that provide a greater awareness and understanding or our environment and our relationship to it.

Environmentally Sound Activities

• Bike ride (along the canal from the Basin to the Village, have ice cream & ride back?)  Rochester Bike club: www.rochesterbicyclingclub.org
• Go canoe or kayak, www.baycreek.com  or www.geneseewaterways.org
• Go for a picnic in someone's backyard or a park
• Go for a hike. Try Crescent Trail or many others in Perinton www.perinton.org/Departments/RandP/hikingctha/
• Go to the Public Market, 280 North Union Street Sat am
• Have a star party, on campout or in someone's backyard or at the top of Woodcliff’s hill
• Hike in any park www.monroecounty.gov,  bring a plastic bag and collect litter as service
• Hike to Daffodil meadow from Thornell side (shorter hike) or from Park Road side
• Participate in a Rochester Orienteering Club event roc.us.orienteering.org/schedule.shtml
• Pick up litter, donate the can & bottle receipts to an environmental charity.
• Plant bulbs for an elderly person's home or another spot. Plant flowers too if you or owner can water them.
• See the High Falls laser light show, www.highfallsrochester.com
• Take a day trip to Herkimer Diamond Mine, Herkimer NY (E of Syracuse), www.herkimerdiamond.com
• Take a day trip to Letchworth, camping, rafting, hiking, www.nysparks.state.ny.us
• Take a road trip to Old Fort Niagara, visit, www.oldfortniagara.org
• Tour Mt Hope Cemetary most Sunday afternoons, www.fomh.org/news.htm
• Tour the Recycling Center www.monroecounty.gov.
• Tour the village of Pittsford on foot. www.townofpittsford.com
• Visit Beaver Lake Nature Center, West side of Syracuse, tons of programs, hike, canoe, birdwatch, www.ongov.net/Parks
• Visit Burroughs Audubon Nature Center. Located on Probst Rd near RR Mills.  www.ggw.org/~banc
• Visit any of the county parks www.monroecounty.gov
• Visit Howe Caverns, near Cooperstown NY, ride boat through cave,  www.Howecaverns.com
• Visit Montezuma National Wild Life Preserve, www.fws.gov/R5MNWR
• Visit or take a class at Genesee Country Nature Center & Museum  www.gcv.org
• Visit Powers Farm Market on Marsh Road
• Visit the Aquarium of Niagara, www.niagarafallslive.com
• Visit the Niagara Falls power plant, great hands on demos, www.infoniagara.com/d-atthydro.html 
• Visit the Roch Museum & Science Center, see a star show or a nature show,  www.rmsc.org
• Visit the Syracuse zoo, 3 hr visit, much bigger than Roch zoo, www.ongov.net/parks/zoo
• Plant tree or shrub seedlings. http://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/7127.html. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation's (DEC) annual sale of tree and shrub seedlings is underway and will continue through May. DEC's Saratoga Nursery produces more than 50 species of trees and shrubs, many native to New York, for planting on public and private land. The objective of the program is to provide low-cost planting material to encourage landowners to enhance New York's environment for future generations.

Web sites to help you find something to do or learn about the environment

• The Color Brighton Green 10% Challenge is a community based campaign supporting business, municipal, school, and residential energy reduction measures in our town, in concert with climate protection efforts by other towns and cities across the country.  www.ColorBrightonGreen.org

• www.dec.ny.gov/ DEC is offering low cost quantities of trees and shrubs

• Living in Harmony, a group from Henrietta United Church of Christ 1400 Lehigh Station Road has monthly meetings. Elizabeth Pixley is convener epixley@rochester.rr.com. Or visit church newsletter www.henriettaucc.org/NL.htm

• Rochester Environment. Our Environment is changing: Keep up with the Change.   If it deals with the environment, Rochester, and the Internet, it's here.  Get all the Environmental News for the Rochester-area, including primary sources, all the media, public officials, federal and state official departments--and the most important world environment stories. rochesterenvironment.com/local_schedules.htm

• Big Green Purse gives you specifics on small things you can do that can make a real difference at:
  biggreenpurse.nonprofitsoapbox.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=41

• Holistic Moms Network www.holisticmoms.org

• TreeHugger is the leading media outlet dedicated to driving sustainability mainstream. At www.treehugger.com/gogreen.php

• Rochester Area Vegetarian Society (RAVS)  www.rochesterveg.org

• Sierra Club local at newyork.sierraclub.org/rochester/  national: http://www.sierraclub.org/outings/national/

• Genesee Valley Chapter Adirondack Mountain Club at /www.gvc-adk.org/

• New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA). It is residential programs are programs that work - programs that help homeowners and renters reduce their energy and lots of other things at costs. www.getenergysmart.org/

• Craig’s List , free stuff at rochester.craigslist.org/zip/ (reuse)

• Environmental Website List compiled by Dave Spier, the Northeast Naturalist projecthouse.vpweb.com/Websites.html

• projecthouse.vpweb.com/Helpful_Website_Links.html

• Rochester Green Living  www.rochestergreenliving.com/index.html

• Rochester Green Business Network www.ceinfo.org/rgbn/index.php

• www.peaceful-organic-planet.com/index.html

• Rochester/Excellus Kids out and about.com rochester.kidsoutandabout.com/