a reblog covering NYC’s sustainability scene
Posted in Events on Mar 30th, 2008
UPDATE: This event was canceled/postponed. See comment below.
From the CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities:
Friday, April 4th, 4pm
The Humane Metropolis
Four-fifths of Americans now live in the nation’s sprawling metropolitan areas, and half of the world’s population for the first time is now classified as “urban.”As metropolitan regions become the dominant living environment for humans, there […]
Posted in Livable Streets, Politics, Transportation on Mar 29th, 2008
From WNYC:
REPORTER: Later, in an exclusive interview with WNYC, Senator Obama said he supports congestion pricing.
OBAMA: I think Mayor Bloomberg’s proposal for congestion pricing is a thoughtful and innovative approach to the problem.
REPOTER: Obama said congestion pricing should not replace federal funding of mass transit.
In related news–you won’t find us joining the giddy speculation about […]
Posted in Livable Streets, Transportation on Mar 29th, 2008
Image from Balboa Observer-Picayune
[Note: No images of GOB on a bicycle were easily found, but who wouldn’t love his fearless face on this segway!]
This is officially our favorite endorsement of CP–Will Arnett talking to NY Mag about his affinity for two wheel transportation (not the segway) and why we need congestion pricing:
Congestion pricing may have […]
Posted in Livable Streets, Politics, Transportation on Mar 28th, 2008
Glenn McAnanama of Upper Green Side sent out this perfectly encapsulated roster of CP support:
The deadline for the city qualifying for over $350 million in additional transit aid from the federal government by passing congestion pricing is quickly approaching. There is a growing consensus that congestion pricing is the right thing to do for the […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 28th, 2008
So Monday is a huge, HUGE day for CP, as our City Councilmembers vote on it. Apparently many of them are still undecided. And while we’re not sure if they’ll be checking their voicemail or inboxes between now and the time of the vote Monday, it’s still worth filling them up with pleas for support […]
Posted in Business on Mar 28th, 2008
We’re not going to spend a lot of our time (or yours) talking about marketing, but there is this pretty big ad agency here in NYC that is launching a “green” offshoot, and they seem to be taking a pretty progressive approach to the whole endeavor. In other words–they’re going well beyond tacking “green” on […]
Posted in Water on Mar 28th, 2008
The Old Croton Aqueduct, somewhere upstate, by flickr user Scubabear86
From the water that surrounds us to the water we drink (and bathe in, and cook with, and just about everything else)…
Steve Cohen in the Observer talks about the successes of NYC’s water infrastructure. It’s worth a full read, but here are a couple highlights:
New […]
Posted in Nature, Parks and Open Space, Water on Mar 28th, 2008
For a city set on three islands and a peninsula, few New Yorkers don’t have all that close a connection to our coastline. Maybe this new interactive New York City Water Trail map and guide will help change that. Just launched by the Parks Department, it features 28 spots along our vast waterfront […]
Posted in Health, Lifestyle, Nature, Parks and Open Space on Mar 28th, 2008
Photo: Department of City Planning
This is as good a way as any to start. From the Times’ City Room blog:
I think that I shall never see a zoning text amendment lovely as a tree. But the new Section 26-41 of the Zoning Resolution, which was approved on Monday by the City Planning Commission, no […]
Posted in Transportation on Mar 28th, 2008
Photo: Brad Aaron , Streetsblog
We’re pretty big fans of Bus Rapid Transit, having spent some time back in college living and studying in the Brazilian city that bred the concept. So we’re clearly pretty enthused about the arrival of NYC’s first proper BRT system (here called Select Bus Service), the Bx12 line in the Bronx.
From […]