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greenbuildingsNYC has a rather startling post on NYC’s only national park, and how it’s fragile ecosystem is under seige from, of all things, shipwrecks. Stephen del Percio explains:
Jamaica Bay has become the dumping ground for derelict yachts, boats, and even barges according to a recent report on MSNBC.com. Despite its protection as […]
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From Andy Revkin’s dot earth:
Lemurs roared and screamed. A young fossa, resembling a stretched-out mash-up of a cat and a mongoose, stalked along a branch. A hundred thousand hissing cockroaches prepared to invade a hollow tree. All of these creatures are from Madagascar, the giant island east of Africa that has spawned […]
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Posted in Events, Nature on Jun 22nd, 2008
[Photo from the Nature Calendar]
Nice things to do in the out of doors from the new WildWire:
Happy Solstice! Summer is here, and life is booming. Make sure you head down to Jamaica Bay to see cacti, horseshoe crabs, and diamondback terrapin turtles! Or get lost in a world of wildflowers and butterflies in Pelham Bay Park. […]
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Posted in Nature, Parks and Open Space on Jun 22nd, 2008
Cranford Rose Garden Timelapse at Brooklyn Botanic Garden from Brooklyn Botanic Garden on Vimeo.The Brooklyn Botanical Garden reminds us that nature keeps a calendar even here in the five boroughs. Beautiful time lapse video of the Cranford Rose Garden. A couple months back they made one of these for the Cherry Blossom bloom […]
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[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 […]
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[Photo by kptyson on flickr]
The Times’ City Room blog hosts another in a worthy series of Q&As with experts of interesting issues, many with at least a tangentially sustainability tilt. This week, Ned Sullivan of Scenic Hudson discusses development and preservation on the Hudson waterfront.
Representative Q:
On both sides of the Hudson, from the […]
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Posted in Nature on Jun 4th, 2008
[Photo from Nature Calendar]
Ok, so this is a little out of our normal range, but who could let this item slip by. Nature Calendar has the scoop:
It seems that on April 17 a Hudson River kayaker was attacked by a bald eagle near Castleton, New York. Local paddlers got word of the incident […]
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Posted in Events, Nature, Parks and Open Space on May 30th, 2008
Our friend Eric Baard has added a new feature to his already riveting Nature Calendar. It’s called the WildWire, and serves as a nice complement to this little reblog for those in our audience who fancy themselves fans of the out of doors. It’s a weekly summary of cool outdoorsy type events and happenings, and […]
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Posted in Nature, Parks and Open Space, Water on Mar 28th, 2008
For a city set on three islands and a peninsula, few New Yorkers don’t have all that close a connection to our coastline. Maybe this new interactive New York City Water Trail map and guide will help change that. Just launched by the Parks Department, it features 28 spots along our vast waterfront […]
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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 […]
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