About
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Featured Work
EcoLinking - Using the Internet to Save the Planet
2017
EcoLinking is a how-to manual and from start to finish you will gain the tools to fight for your piece of the planet. This book is for the student, the housewife, the farmer, teacher, and anyone else who feels compelled to do something about the destruction of the environment, locally or globally. This is a revision of the ground breaking book EcoLinking - Everyone's Guide to Online Environmental Information (Peachpit Press, 1992), the first book to show how to use the (then) brand new Internet for a social cause.
Other Works
Awards and Recognition
- Hudson River Foundation (2013); McDonald Foundation (2006 & 2010); GE Foundation (2006-2012); Entergy (2009); Netherlands Government (2009); NYS Quadricentennial Commission (2009); National DAR Award for Historic Preservation (2006); William Gundry Broughton Charitable Private Foundation (2005 & 2009); Member Items from Assemblymen Tonko, Farley and Tedesco (2006-2007); Hudson Valley Pine Barrens Grant - Hudson River Foundation (1986); Executive Award for Environmental Impact - 1985, New York State Outdoor Education Association; American Wildlife Research Foundation (1982, 1981, 1980); Ludwig Vogelstein Award (1981); SUNYA Teaching Assistantship (1981); Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Fellowship & Teaching Assistantship (1977); Nature Conservancy Oak Leaf Award (1977); American Bicentennial Grant (1975), America the Beautiful Fund Grant (1973).
Press and Media Mentions
- Troy author hopes to start revolution with new book
- Don Rittner is telling, in words and pictures, the inside story of the Altamont Fair’s 125-year history
- Troy native making movie about his hitchhiking adventure
- Don Rittner, exploring both personal and local history.
- Filmmaker Don Rittner
- Historian takes a look at Troy Through Time
- Local historian focuses attention once again on Troy