a reblog covering NYC’s sustainability scene
Posted in Community, Conservation-Preservation, Environmental Justice, Nature, Parks and Open Space on Dec 15th, 2008
From the Bronx River Alliance:
Bronx River Rising: A Bronx River Alliance - StoryCorps Partnership
The Bronx River Alliance, with the support of StoryCorps (www.storycorps.net), has begun an oral history project to capture the oral stories of those that have touched or been touched by the river. To date six people, including Ruth Anderberg, founder of Bronx […]
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.
Posted in Community, Environmental Justice, Food on Aug 3rd, 2008
[Photo from Sudbury/Childrens Press Line]
A truly wonderful story by the Daily News and Childrens Press Line about East New York farms. We’d say this qualifies as a must read:
If passengers looked outside the No. 3 train as it roared above Livonia and Schenck Aves., they would see a train station, apartment buildings - and rows […]
Posted in Community, Events, Livable Streets on Jul 25th, 2008
It’s Block Party season. Streetfilms shows us what they’re like. Find a Block Party near you (or sign up to plan one) with this nice tool courtesy of Transportation Alternatives, NYC Streets Renaissance, and the Open Planning Project.
Posted in Community, Livable Streets on Jul 22nd, 2008
A great piece about the inaugural Williamsburg Walks car-free day of glory on Bedford Avenue, put together by Clarence Eckerson at Streetfilms (it’s getting harder to remember a NYC livable streets movement without their blessed souls). Every week it feels like our city is changing into something even greater.
Next Saturday will again be car free. […]
Posted in Community, Environmental Justice on Jul 9th, 2008
The New Republic has an awesome video on environmentalism in the South Bronx. From writer-reporter Dayo Olopade:
This video marks the first of a TNR TV series that will take an issues approach to contemporary environmentalism. This episode deals with matters of class and race in the green movement, with particular focus on the South Bronx–incorporating […]
Posted in Community, Lifestyle, Livable Streets, Waste on Jun 25th, 2008
George Spyros at Susty.tv clearly has bikes on the mind this week. First, he’s got a profile of Bikes New York, a great organization that launched and runs the Five Boro Bike Tour. Then he’s got a profile and video about Recycle-A-Bicycle, another cool local bike-org that rescues abandoned bikes from around the city (or […]
Posted in Community, Food, Urban Environment, Water on Jun 22nd, 2008
Urban Studio Brooklyn (USBK), a project of Habana Works, has a very cool project going on this summer.
WHAT:
In 2008, Urban Studio Brooklyn will partner with the Lower East Side Ecology Center and pedicab designer George Bliss to design and build a one-of-a-kind mobile wetlab and fishing clinic: The Fishmobile. The human-powered vehicle/spectacle will be built […]
Posted in Community, Transportation on Jun 19th, 2008
[Much of Park Avenue, above, will be closed to cars on parts of Aug. 9, 16 and 23. Right, Lance Armstrong joined Mayor Bloomberg to announce street closings. Photo: Fred R. Conrad/NYT; John Marshall Mantel for NYT]
We’re a couple days late on this–not for lack of excitement, but because it actually took a […]
Posted in Community, Conservation-Preservation, Environmental Justice, Nature, Parks and Open Space, Water on Jun 17th, 2008
[Photograph by Adam Spangler, Vanity Fair.]
Not sure how we missed this a couple months back, but Vanity Fair (oh, that’s how) had a really nice piece by Adam Spangler about ecological–and community–restoration along the Bronx River, and a canoe trip. It’s really quite an inspiring read.
…here I am in a canoe, paddling down an […]