a reblog covering NYC’s sustainability scene
[Photo of Robert Burghardt mural: wallyg/Flickr. Found on Streetsblog]
Come one, come all. Come join SustaiNYC, your friends Ben and Naveen, and a whole bunch of roadside revelers as we celebrate the glory that is Summer Streets.
Tomorrow, Saturday, August 16th
We’ll be staking out some street on 4th Avenue between East 10th and 11th, sipping coffee […]
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 Energy, Lifestyle, Miscellany, Transportation on Jun 19th, 2008
We don’t spend too much time on sports here–but we have been known to get angry about cars, so we couldn’t let this item pass by without at least a brief mention. Friend and colleague Carina Molnar, aka The Green Queen Bee, saw this New Jersey Nets promotion and couldn’t resist dropping them a […]
Posted in Business, Lifestyle, Stuff We Like on Apr 18th, 2008
[Photo: leslieannprice on flickr]
Of course we can’t buy our way out of ecological catastrophe. But, as it goes, eco-commerce has become a formidable plank of this broader green platform. And we’d be in denial if we didn’t admit that the burgeoning eco-fashion movement has brought awareness of the issues to plenty of people who might’ve […]
Posted in Health, Lifestyle, Nature, Parks and Open Space on Mar 28th, 2008
Photo: Department of City Planning
This is as good a way as any to start. From the Times’ City Room blog:
I think that I shall never see a zoning text amendment lovely as a tree. But the new Section 26-41 of the Zoning Resolution, which was approved on Monday by the City Planning Commission, no […]
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.