Placid Earth: Student-Run Composter
Since 2019 AdkAction has served as the fiscal sponsor for Placid Earth, a student-run composting business in Lake Placid.
Get to Know Us
Get to Know Us
Our mission
We make life better across the Adirondacks through partnerships and creative problem solving.
Our vision
An Adirondacks where people and nature thrive together.
Areas of Impact
We prioritize making a significant impact on issues at the intersection of ecosystem conservation and community development. In our current Strategic Plan, covering 2026-2028, we are specifically focused on making this impact in several areas:
Addressing basic needs. This includes a dual focus on protecting community infrastructure and on innovative programming.
Addressing the way people are affected by environmental problems and the ways people can take action to positively impact the environment.
Thoughtfully investigating, mitigating, and responding to the effects that emergencies have on people and landscapes of the Adirondacks.
We believe:
People and nature thrive together. By creating effective and equitable short and long-range projects, we help ensure the future of our region is bright.
There is value in taking a holistic approach to complex problems. We try multifaceted, innovative, and collaborative strategies to reach shared goals.
Our work derives from and is for the community. We bring an orientation of openness, sincerity, and respect to the ways we engage everyone in the Adirondacks. We prioritize the lived experiences of others.
In ethical integrity and professional excellence across our organizational culture, decision making, governance, financial management, and community impact.
In fostering transparent, positive, and honest communication to respectfully and courageously address and resolve conflict in ways that build greater
strength, capacity, and trust.
We believe the Adirondacks are for all.
We believe:
People and nature thrive together. By creating effective and equitable short and long-range projects, we help ensure the future of our region is bright.
There is value in taking a holistic approach to complex problems. We try multifaceted, innovative, and collaborative strategies to reach shared goals.
Our work derives from and is for the community. We bring an orientation of openness, sincerity, and respect to the ways we engage everyone in the Adirondacks. We prioritize the lived experiences of others.
In diversity, equity, belonging, and justice. We are committed to lifting and amplifying diverse voices that foster respect and equality both within our organization and in our communities.
In ethical integrity and professional excellence across our organizational culture, decision making, governance, financial management, and community impact.
In fostering transparent, positive, and honest communication to respectfully and courageously address and resolve conflict in ways that build greater
strength, capacity, and trust.
Our diversity, equity and inclusion statement
AdkAction recognizes that as a state park, the Adirondack Park belongs to all New Yorkers and, at the same time, serves as an international model for sustainable development, balancing the needs of people and the natural systems on which they depend. We also recognize that all people, those who live here and those who visit here, have a crucial interest in protecting, enhancing, and experiencing the intrinsic beauty, abundant biodiversity, and vitality of the Adirondack Park and its communities, and that all are entitled to equal access to the Park’s public lands. We recognize that people’s Adirondack experiences are not uniformly positive and that some residents and visitors feel unwelcome to explore, participate in, and benefit from the region’s many and varied opportunities. All of us at AdkAction, individually and collectively, condemn negative and hurtful acts of discrimination, exclusion, and racism that have diminished the promise of the Adirondacks. We pledge ourselves to find and incorporate perspectives in our work that will make the Adirondacks more welcoming to diverse traditions, cultures, values, identities, and ways of life. We commit ourselves to lift and amplify diverse voices that foster respect and equality both within our organization and in our communities. In light of these principles and values, AdkAction will actively work to ensure that our projects are beneficial, inclusive, and open to all.
Current Projects
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Fair Share
Started in 2021, AdkAction’s Fair Share project sponsors low-income families to participate in season-long Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm share programs at no cost. This project builds equity in access, so low-income community members can take advantage of the health, environmental, and social benefits of participating in a CSA, while supporting small farms through upfront investment ahead of the growing season.
Clean Water Safe Roads
Road Salt pollution is threatening Adirondack waters. Studies now show that Adirondack lakes and streams near roads are contaminated and drinking water wells are becoming contaminated at an alarming rate.
Adirondack Pollinator Project
We empower people to take individual and collective action to ensure a future where pollinators thrive, native habitat abounds, and Adirondack residents and visitors are engaged pollinator advocates.
Capped Landfill Pollinator Habitat
AdkAction is partnering with the Town of Indian Lake to transform a closed, capped landfill into an eight-acre native pollinator habitat. This three-year demonstration project will test how unused landfill sites across the Adirondacks can be restored to support bees, butterflies, and other vital pollinators.
Broadband for All
We are working to create universal access to high-speed broadband in the Adirondacks.
Long Term Rental Catalyst
The Land Bank Project’s goal is to address the affordable housing shortage for low and middle income families in the Adirondacks by taking a lead role in catalyzing the development of a regional land bank.