KINGSTON – Ulster County Legislator Manna Jo Greene has been “talking trash” for most of her adult life and for that reason, the county legislature bestowed upon her a Lifetime Achievement Award.
The award was specifically for her “lifetime of environmental advocacy and activism.”
In accepting the award, Greene noted we have a global climate crisis.
“Many of you probably think recycling – that we always did recycling. Thirty-three years ago that wasn’t the case and we took our recycling rate here in Ulster County from four percent to 40 percent in a decade. And now have to take it from 40 percent to 80 percent,” she said.
Greene’s environmental activism also included the fight to clean the Hudson River of the PCB contamination by General Electric, the closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant, banning fracking in the state and serving as the environmental director of Hudson River Clearwater.
