There’s a ton of potential for small bizzes to save themselves boatloads of cash through some pretty simple and cheap actions around NYC. It sounds like this EcoBizNYC initiative of the Lower East Side Ecology Center is going to show how it’s done. They’ve got a Weathering for the Winter workshop–first of many, I’m guessing–coming up.
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Monthly Archive for November, 2008
Queens Green Drinks
Posted in Events on Nov 30th, 2008
Tomorrow night-Monday, December 1st, 6-9pm at Terraza Cafe in Jackson Heights. Details after the hop.
Blueprint for the Upper West Side
Posted in Community, Livable Streets on Nov 28th, 2008
Open Planning Project and Streetfilms covering the UWS Streets Renaissance. “Blueprint for the Upper West Side: A Roadmap for Truly Livable Streets,” was released a couple weeks back. It’s going to be an important model to follow–not only in terms of design and planning, but in civic action and strategy. Stay tuned.
Grameen America celebrates microlending milestone in Queens
Posted in Business, Efficiently on Nov 28th, 2008
Grameen America has now given out $1 million in microloans to Queens customers. Average loan $2000. Payback rate 99.5%. Congrats! [Times’ City Room]
WEACT
Posted in Energy, Environmental Justice, Health on Nov 28th, 2008
Melissa Checker, who not long ago wrote a great article on green collar job creation in the South Bronx, has another bang up piece in the Gotham Gazette, this time about another of our favorite NYC environmental orgs: WEACT. Here is but a glimpse:
In 2006 Mayor Michael Bloomberg invited WEACT founder, Peggy Shepherd to […]
Walmart Employee Killed in Black Friday Stampede
Posted in Efficiently on Nov 28th, 2008
Well this is the most depressing story of the year. Clearly not enough people were paying attention to Rev Billy.
The Politics of Food
Posted in Efficiently on Nov 28th, 2008
Steve Cohen breaks down The Politics of Food conference hosted by Columbia. Worth reading.
Thankful to have some time
Posted in Meta on Nov 28th, 2008
And finally get caught up here. We’ve missed you. We’ll be back with a slightly more hectic-schedule friendly format. More rapid-fire, more breakneck, less heavy on original prose. (Not that there was ever too much.) More true to the original “reblog” intentions. Just getting you the facts. Quick and clean.
Now, since we’ve got about 48 […]