October 14th, 2025 What's the most important thing you can do for the environment in this election? Cast an informed vote! In an effort to learn more about their environmental priorities, Color Penfield Green invited our candidates to join our September meetings. Both candidates for Town Supervisor and all four candidates for Town Board accepted our invitation and we had a dynamic, lively discussion with all of them. We are grateful that they gave us their time during this b

Color Penfield Green has signed onto a letter written by the NY Chapters of the Climate Reality Project asking Senators Schumer and Gillibrand to make sure that significant climate legislation is passed in this summer's anticipated Reconciliation Bill. The Climate Reality Project is a climate advocacy group founded by Al Gore and there are two vibrant chapters here in the region. Here is the letter: Dear Senator Schumer, We, the undersigned, are sending this plea to you in l

March 14, 2022 updated June 10th, 2022 In this article, you'll find descriptions of some of the bills we support and followed this legislative session, which came to a close at the beginning of June. We've also included whether our representatives, Senator Brouk and Assembly Member Lunsford supported them or not. While this session has ended, our elected officials are still hard at work and want to hear from their constituents. We encourage you to contact their offices to ask

2/14/21 Dear Supervisor La Fountain and Board Members, Color Penfield Green members recently viewed our town board meeting of 1/13/21 where you discussed cutting a swath of trees 20’ in from the sidewalk for safety reasons. First of all, thank you for taking a proactive approach to public safety. Secondly, we would like to weigh in on the possible new policy for tree replacement. We appreciate that you are open to changing the town's policy on replacing the trees and we st

Generation180 is a non-profit working to inspire and equip people to take action on clean energy. For the election season, they challenged artists across the country to inspire Americans to vote for a clean energy future. There were three winners and they chose to turn Penfield's Tatyana Orlovich's work into a children's book! This is her first fully illustrated book after completing a mentorship at The Oatley Academy. You can learn more about her work at toart.us . It's V