a reblog covering NYC’s sustainability scene
Posted in Business, Lifestyle, Stuff We Like on Apr 18th, 2008
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Of course we can’t buy our way out of ecological catastrophe. But, as it goes, eco-commerce has become a formidable plank of this broader green platform. And we’d be in denial if we didn’t admit that the burgeoning eco-fashion movement has brought awareness of the issues to plenty of people who might’ve […]
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 Business, Energy, Green Building on Feb 13th, 2008
An owner of a Bronx business called New York Beverage decided that he was going to take his warehouse off the electric grid. At first he was reasoning with wind power but opted for solar instead. He is in a low-rise zoning area where it would be perfect for maximum exposure to sunlight.
Posted in Business, Climate Change, Community, Design, Energy, Environmental Justice, Food, Green Building, Health, Lifestyle, Livable Streets, Parks and Open Space, Politics, Technology, Transportation, Waste, Water on Feb 13th, 2008
Popular Science ranks the country’s 50 Greenest Cities in its latest issue and New York comes in at a respectable #20, despite being beaten out by Boston and Chicago. The magazine used raw data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the National Geographic Society’s Green Guide, which collected government statics and survey data across 30 different sustainability categories. Pop Sci then distributed these statistics across four broad categories: electricity, transportation, green living, and recycling and green perspective. Cities earned points for items such as their number of LEED-certified buildings, how much energy they draw from renewable sources, how many commuters use public transportation or carpool, and how much land they devote to public green space.