About Sunray Sustainability

  • Our Ethos

    Sunray Sustainability approaches each project with curiosity, thoughtful design, and an understanding of the relationships between people and place. We work with organizations, municipalities, schools, and community-based projects to create productive, resilient places rooted in their surroundings.

    We believe good design begins with understanding a site as a whole—its land, water, ecology, existing infrastructure, patterns of use, and the people who depend on it. By looking at these elements together, we develop practical, ecologically grounded plans that respond to both the opportunities and challenges of a place.

    Collaboration is central to our work. We value the knowledge, ideas, and experience that clients, partners, and communities bring to a project. Our goal is to develop plans that are practical, understandable, and adaptable—providing a clear framework for projects to grow and evolve over time.

Who We Are

  • Rich Daley

    Rich's work centers on ecological design, agriculture, green building, and the development of productive, resilient places. His work brings together gardens and growing spaces, orchards and agroforestry, composting systems, structures, and other forms of site infrastructure, with an emphasis on how these elements can function together as part of a larger landscape. He has worked in collaboration with schools, nonprofits, municipalities, farms, and community organizations throughout New York's Capital Region and beyond.

    He has taught and facilitated workshops at Hudson Valley Community College, the Yestermorrow Design/Build School, grassroots gatherings, and other organizations. Rich holds a degree in Green Building from the State University of New York. His writing has appeared in Permaculture Design Magazine, Lion's Roar, Resilience, and other publications.

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We are thankful to the many community 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