a reblog covering NYC’s sustainability scene
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 […]
Posted in Art, Environmental Justice, Events, Food on Apr 9th, 2008
St. Francis College will be showcasing a photography exhibition of Meredith Davenport’s photographs of children and their parents who are affected by pesticides in Costa Rica.
The opening reception will be held on Tuesday April 1, in the Callahan Center from 5:30 - 7:30. All are welcome!
On April 21, between 12:30 and 1:30, SFC will […]
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.