Editorial: 3 cheers

August 16, 2010

To the Town of Red Hook's Town Board, voted to be a pilot community in the "10 Percent Challenge" (see www.10percentchallenge.org). The "challenge" will be a community effort over the next year to reduce both personal and business energy use by 10 percent. A new group, Red Hook Together, which includes members from the Red Hook School District, town and village board members, the Chamber of Commerce and Bard College, is working to help make it happen. AmeriCorps volunteers will plan 10 community events. On Oct. 10, (10/10/10), Red Hook will kick off the project and take part in an "international movement for a roll-up-your-sleeves-work-party day"; the town will plant trees, hold a bike swap, have a composting workshop and host a half-marathon.