a reblog covering NYC’s sustainability scene
From Brooklyn Green Team:
Brooklyn Green Team
& GreenEdge Collaborative NYC
Present
No Take-Out Challenge!*
3 months. 3 meals a day.
Do it for your wallet! Do it for the planet!
PACKAGING STATISTICS: What are we doing?
Almost 1/3 of the waste generated in the US is from packaging! Plastic takes 1,000 years to decompose (and really it just keeps getting smaller and […]
Posted in Community, Food, Health, Parks and Open Space, pollution on May 14th, 2009
The Times has an interesting piece on lead impacting people’s urban gardening efforts:
FRANK MEUSCHKE’S garden, which surrounds the house he rents in Brooklyn, is a bountiful source of tomatoes, snap peas, green beans, peppers, lettuce and multiple varieties of flowers. It is also, as he recently discovered to his dismay, a rich repository of lead. […]
Posted in Environmental Justice, Food on May 11th, 2009
Are you passionate about local food, urban gardening and social justice?
Would you like to make
your passion your job?
Come spend a year with Just Food as an
AmeriCorps* VISTA!
Apply to serve as a fulltime AmeriCorps* VISTA member and help build a more just and sustainable food system in New York City.
Just Food and several of […]
Posted in Efficiently, Events, Food on Apr 7th, 2009
The Brooklyn Food Conference has a new website up. Get thee there and register to attend!
Posted in Food on Apr 7th, 2009
Piling on that last post, Brooklyn writer Max Ajl has an awfully good article on SolveClimate about Scott Stringer’s “Food in the Public Interest: How New York City’s Food Policy Holds the Key to Hunger, Health, Jobs and the Environment” report:
The report, rich with detail and prescription, outlines preliminary steps toward a pretty good food […]
Posted in Food on Apr 7th, 2009
Manhattan Borough Prez Scott Stringer and author Joan Gussow lambast our national (and our city’s) food infrastructure, and call for more sustainable systems:
To see the results of this dysfunctional culture around food, we need look no further than our own waistlines. In New York City, for example, rates of obesity and diabetes rates rose by […]
Posted in Community, Food, Parks and Open Space on Apr 5th, 2009
A video from CENYC:
Posted in Events, Food, Parks and Open Space on Apr 4th, 2009
From UGS:
What: Free Urban Gardening Class
When: April 5, 2009 3:00 PM
Where: Open Road Community Garden, 420 E 12th St New York, NY 10009
We’ll be in the Green House in the middle of the Garden if it rains.
Meetup Description: In this class we will be going over Trellises, seedling transplants, and Cold frames. We […]
From Just Food:
Food For Thought Film Festival
Naniola Productions presents the third annual Food For Thought Film Festival; a showcase of films about our most important life sustaining resources: FOOD and WATER.
The festival begins on April 11, 2009 at the Action Center to End World Hunger downtown and will conclude on […]