Recycling Labyrinth by Mona Sfeir

The "Recycling Labyrinth" by Mona Sfeir at the United States Mission to the United Nations in Geneva. Intended to commemorate World Environment Day, the work of art consists of 8,000 plastic bottles, which is the number of bottles that go into landfills worldwide every second, according to the artist.

Fracking Home

ITHACA -- With a July 1 deadline looming for a draft plan on how New York will regulate horizontal, high-volume hydraulic fracturing of gas-rich Marcellus shale, Tompkins County towns are struggling to protect public roads and develop regulations for drilling operations. 

"It could literally be this fall when they start issuing permits, and I think gas drilling will eventually get to Tompkins," said Town of Ithaca Supervisor Herb Engman. "We're going to try our best to get everything in place before a single gas well is drilled in Tompkins County."

Read the entire article in the Ithaca Journal.