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Climate Smart Rhinebeck

The Village of Rhinebeck's Climate Smart Task Force is working to encourage, implement, and quantify the village's efforts to address the climate crisis.

We are doing so by participating in NY State's Climate Smart Communities Program.

04/04/2026

Announcing the 3rd Annual Rhinebeck Earth Day event! Bring your recycle-palooza stuff on April 25: clothing swap, plastic bags and wrap, dead batteries, old bikes, paper grocery bags — details on the flyer. We will also have wildlife shows, hands on seed-ball activities and more!

03/05/2026

Spring is coming. Get ready for the annual amphibian migration! Volunteer with the Hudson River Estuary Program’s program to track and support these critters at road crossings

02/13/2026

Repair your broken stuff on Valentines Day! It’ll repair any 💔🥰💚 Brookmeade Pavilion 10-2, Feb 14

02/10/2026

We spent yesterday in Albany visiting with lawmakers to get to YES for the Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act. Call your state senators and assemblymembers to push leadshership to bring it for a vote! A group of Rhinebeckers and friends from Westchester and Milan and Claverack joined up with probably about 100 volunteers from across NY organized by . It was incredible to be part of the “sausage getting made” and hopefully that sausage will be less contaminated by microplastics in the future 😉🧴🍾♻️🗑️🗳️🧃🥤📦

01/20/2026

Congrats to the Bulkeley Middle School environmental club students who successfully rolled out composting in the cafeteria today!!! The students had given presentations to each science class in school, explaining why composting matters and how young people can have an impact. This week, volunteers from the Climate Smart Task Force are helping out during lunches, reinforcing this message from the student leaders. On day 1, about 20lbs of food scraps were diverted from the landfill!

01/18/2026

Rhinebeck has partnered with Helpsy, a certified B Corp, to provide at home clothing recycling to residents. It saves money, time, and the planet’s resources. Recycling your
clothes with Helpsy’s Home Pickup service is free and couldn’t be easier. Check out villageofrhinebeck.gov/helpsy to schedule your pickup and find out which items are accepted.

10/23/2025

Let’s parade those costumes to school!

10/11/2025

Rhinebeck Village got Silver in NYState’s Climate Smart Communities program! 💚🩶💚There are only two other silver municipalities in Dutchess County and 23 in NYS. All but 5 are in the Hudson Valley 🙌. This was a 6 year effort with the help of wonderful community volunteers and the full support of Mayor Bassett and the Village Board. Pictured left to right: Trustee Vanessa Bertozzi, Dazzle Ekblad (head of the CSC program), DEC Commissioner Amanda Lefton.

10/06/2025

10/02/2025

So proud of our SILVER status!

09/10/2025

is back-to-school! Chancellor Livingston Elementary School families are invited to walk and bike together en masse to CLS on Friday Sept 26!

09/05/2025

Full house (400 people!) for inspiring folks to bring conservation principles to their own yards Well done, Avalon from for moderating hundreds of questions and to for hosting!

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About Us

Task Force Members and special guests, Feb 12, 2020: (from left to right) Nan Jackson, Chantal Collins, Jennifer Breslin, Vanessa Bertozzi, Carli Fraccarolli, Dorna Schoeter, Ashley Gamell, Michael Forlenza, Sue Sie, Corinna Borden, Kathy Dobson (and babe). Not pictured: Liz Mazzarella, Kellianne Ticcony, Scout Pronto, Matt Stinchcomb, Yvette Rogers, Rachel Cavell.

The Rhinebeck Climate Smart Task Force is working to encourage, implement, and quantify the village's efforts to address the climate crisis. We are doing so by coordinating our participation in NY State's Climate Smart Communities Program (CSC), which provides helpful tools and frameworks and opens us up to the potential for greater State funding around our sustainability efforts.

The goal of the Climate Smart Community Taskforce is to meaningfully assist the village in building a more just, resilient, and livable future in Rhinebeck.

Mayor Bassett and the Village Board have formed this task force, and have appointed Vanessa Bertozzi to serve as the coordinator.