a reblog covering NYC’s sustainability scene
Posted in Environmental Justice, Food on May 11th, 2009
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Posted in Environmental Justice, Green Building on Feb 25th, 2009
Two articles last week about a couple of wonderful projects providing healthy, green buildings for less priliged New Yorkers. First there’s the Times CityRoom on Dinkins Gardens, which “will split its units roughly between formerly incarcerated homeless people and moderate-income families. Among the features the building will offer: free Wi-Fi, roof gardens that will channel […]
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 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 […]
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 Environmental Justice, Green Building on Jul 26th, 2008
Jonathan Rose breaks down the importance of getting cities right. His company was chosen to develop the pioneering, biophilic Via Verde affordable green housing project up in the Bronx. Pretty inspiring stuff. Here’s cooltownstudios talking about it last year:
One of the most concrete ways of providing sustainable/green, affordable living in NYC is to develop such […]
Posted in Environmental Justice, Waste on Jul 14th, 2008
South Bronx residents have apparently had enough of the noxious fumes filling their neighborhood. Ten residents along with Mothers on the Move (MOM), a local environmental justice group, have called in the help of NRDC to bring a lawsuit against the companies that operate the nearby sewage and fertilizer factories. We hope they get […]
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, 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 […]
Posted in Environmental Justice, Green Building on Apr 9th, 2008
Now here’s something we love to see–good, green design accessible to the masses, not just the eco-elite. From the press release:
A new urban vision became reality today in Harlem with the opening of David &
Joyce Dinkins Gardens. The building, residences for foster care graduates and low-income families, was co-developed by
Jonathan Rose Companies and Harlem […]