a reblog covering NYC’s sustainability scene
Posted in Miscellany on Jul 25th, 2008
Couple of items to bring you into the weekend…
NYLCVs talks about the potential of net metering and real time pricing in Con Ed’s voluntary time-of-use electricity program.
Ethan at Green Brooklyn on the recent heat wave and the city’s energy/blackout woes.
Paterson will sign the latest brownfields redevelopment bill.
Susty profiles the keepers of our Hudson River.
The Mayor’s […]
Posted in Miscellany on Jul 12th, 2008
Too much piling up on the backlog. Time to digest it all. Highlights from an undercovered couple of days.
Hundreds (or even thousands!) of bikes to be a part of broad new bike share program.
Brooklyn Heights named America’s most fuel efficient neighborhood. (Though we really can’t figure out how they came up with those numbers.)
Another long […]
Posted in Miscellany on Jul 11th, 2008
So we’ll be out of town working at a sustainability seminar through the weekend. We’re mostly just excited that we’ll be getting back to the Schloss (aka, the Schloss Leopoldskron), which, apparently, was a big setting in The Sound of Music. We wouldn’t know because we’re terribly uncultured.
In any case, we beg your patience. If […]
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 Art, Miscellany on Jun 14th, 2008
Our browser is overflowing with tabs after our recent hiatus. Let’s clear it out:
Steve Cohen on the New York Merc’s new Green Exchange.
City DOT announces bike rack design competition.
Emily Gertz with a great piece in Grist about the opening of the “Garden of Hope” in Bed Stuy.
NRDC’s CEO, Peter Lehnen, meditates a bit from […]
Posted in Climate Change, Miscellany on May 30th, 2008
Yesterday, the Brookings Institute–a think tank–released a first-of-its-kind list of rankings for U.S. regions rating their respective carbon footprints.
Their description:
The nation’s carbon footprint has a distinct geography not well understood or often discussed. This report quantifies transportation and residential carbon emissions for the 100 largest U.S. metropolitan areas, finding that metro area residents have […]
Posted in Miscellany on May 4th, 2008
Still away. Still occasionally posting.
Here’s a can’t miss Times’ Q&A with Carol Murphy, Executive Director of the Alliance for Clean Energy, New York. In it, she answers quite a few questions that we’ve gotten awfully used to hearing: How can I make small-scale solar work for me in NYC? What’s the deal with geothermal/tidal/wind […]
Posted in Climate Change, Miscellany on Mar 12th, 2008
Gotta say, I pretty much agree with the planet on this one:
THE planet Earth has dismissed claims it is in danger from global warming, stressing the worst that could happen is the extinction of the human race.
The Earth spoke out after a series of books, television programmes and environmental campaigns urged people to do everything […]
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.