a reblog covering NYC’s sustainability scene
Posted in Energy, Transportation on Mar 19th, 2008
…this is actually sorta cool.
From Autobloggreen:
That Subaru R1e caught driving the streets of Manhattan over the weekend foreshadows the expansion the car’s field-test program to the United States. Subaru is expected to make a formal announcement within the next hour or so, but we can preview it for you here now. The New York Power […]
Posted in Climate Change, Energy, Miscellany on Mar 7th, 2008
Pretty hilarious commercial parody of the ubiquitous “clean coal” ads that’ve dominated our political coverage. And set here in NYC.
As David Roberts of Grist often notes, coal is the enemy of the human race. In Burning the Future: Coal in America, we get a look at how acutely it’s an enemy of West Virginians. Here in NYC, we’ve got the first look at this new doc by David Novack. […]
Posted in Climate Change, Energy on Feb 26th, 2008
Friend and local Sierra Club chapter chair Dan Miner sends word of a powerful (pun regrettably intended) report by the SC’s NYC Group. Dan’s intro:
I’m writing to announce the release of a new report on NYC energy policy and climate change response from Sierra Club NYC Group. We’re off to a great […]
Posted in Energy on Feb 21st, 2008
From Cajun Boy in the City:
If you’ve ever visited coned.com you’d know that much of the energy provider’s website is devoted to touting energy conservation and increasing awareness of wasteful environmental practices.
Funny thing then that a reader whose apartment faces the Con Edison headquarters on 14th street snapped this picture from her bedroom window over […]
Posted in Energy on Feb 18th, 2008
Our local net metering policies are bringing home the kind of grades that would’ve gotten me grounded. From the Environmental Advocates of New York:
New York’s net metering policy, the practice that credits consumers for the clean power they generate, received a grade of “D” on a report card released earlier this month by the […]
Posted in Energy on Feb 18th, 2008
This isn’t new news (ie–it’s old news, but that sounds all the harsher), but the nice Green Options blog Ecolocalizer has a good post today about the Verdant Power tidal energy project going on now (!) in the East River. Check it out.
(Video is not, in fact, of Verdant Power’s project, but is a […]
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.
Posted in Energy on Feb 3rd, 2008
In light of a state-projected energy shortage, New York needs an expansion of nuclear power; and, it’s a near-”silver bullet” solution, according to an ex-Greenpeace expert. This, from a breakfast-talk held in the New York State Capital of Albany.
State energy experts forecast a shortfall of electricity in the state by 2012, especially in the New York City area.
A greenfield nuclear generation station would take around 10 years to plan, design, site, permit, and build. It’d have to be an existing site expansion if …