Beacon's Long Dock waterfront

BEACON – The continuing redevelopment and growth in Beacon has brought with it an expanding environmental movement which began several years ago with the Beacon Sloop Club.

That has expanded and grown even more to the point where the city is fast becoming an environmental hub for the Mid-Hudson Valley, said Clearwater Executive Director Jeff Rumpf.

“Beacon Institute, Scenic Hudson, Clearwater, Sloop Club, river pool, these are organizations that are just really ready to show the world, in a demonstration site, but also are going to reach thousands of people, how to put the ‘eco’ into the ‘economy’.”

Clearwater is the latest entrant into the Beacon environmental lineup as it moves its headquarters and new education center to the city and makes it the sloop Clearwater’s new permanent home port.