While quality of life continues to improve in urban America, there is growing concern that rural America is falling behind, and in harmony with this trend, the continued economic hardships associated with living in the Adirondacks highlight the increased need for tools to promote economic development within the region. While increased access to capital is widely accepted as a […]

Is water a commercial good like running shoes or Coca-Cola? OR, is it a human right, like air? So asks water-activist Maude Barlow (2011) in the documentary, Water on the Table. This conceptual divide of water as a commodity vs. human right determines how we incentivize water conservation. Within the larger environmental discourse, environmental protections are often paired […]