About Sunray Sustainability

  • Our Ethos

    Sunray Sustainability is a community-oriented initiative focused on regenerative land use, ecological learning, and place-based projects. We bring people together around food, land, practical skills, and stewardship to create stronger communities and healthier ecosystems.

    We also believe meaningful projects are built through relationships. Sunray Sustainability works collaboratively with community members, nonprofits, educators, land stewards, designers, builders, and other partners to develop thoughtful, place-based projects that draw on a diversity of skills, perspectives, and experiences.

Who We Are

  • Rich Daley

    Rich's work centers on the design, construction, and stewardship of regenerative systems, with a particular interest in agroforestry, regenerative agriculture, and ecological building methods. Through an integrative approach to land use and building, he explores how food production, community spaces, and thoughtfully crafted structures can work together to support resilient and meaningful places.

    Over the years, Rich has collaborated on projects throughout New York's Capital Region ranging from community gardens and growing spaces to ecological construction and outdoor learning environments. He has facilitated workshops in settings ranging from grassroots gatherings to Hudson Valley Community College and the Yestermorrow Design/Build School.

    Rich holds a degree in Green Building from the State University of New York, and is a member of the Timber Framers Guild. His writing has appeared in Permaculture Design Magazine, Lion's Roar, Resilience, and other publications.

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Community-Based Work

Many of Sunray Sustainability's projects are rooted in partnerships with schools, nonprofits, municipalities, community groups, and mission-driven organizations. We are particularly interested in projects that expand access to food production, ecological learning, community gathering, and stewardship of the land.

Whether helping establish a community garden, develop an outdoor learning environment, improve a community greenspace, or support a broader regenerative initiative, our goal is to create practical, lasting projects that strengthen both people and place.

We are thankful to the many clients, partners, and organizations we have worked alongside over the years.

“We don’t have a right to ask whether we are going to succeed or not. The only thing we have a right to ask is, ‘What’s the right thing to do? What does this earth require of us if we want to continue to live on it?’”

— Wendell Berry