a reblog covering NYC’s sustainability scene
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 Green Building, Parks and Open Space on May 11th, 2009
The Daily Green has a nice piece on the greening of hard/brown/gray/concrete/wasted spaces in NYC: Hunting for Green in the Urban Jungle.
Posted in Lifestyle, Parks and Open Space on Apr 19th, 2009
CENYC:
Posted in Events, Nature, Parks and Open Space on Apr 7th, 2009
New York Academy of Science is putting on this lecture tomorrow night:
Field Guide to New York City
Thanks to its three islands (Manhattan, Staten, and Long), its position at the mouth of a 300 mile-long river, and its location directly under the Atlantic migratory flyway, New York City is one of the most naturally biologically diverse […]
Posted in Parks and Open Space on Apr 5th, 2009
From the folks at Freshkills Park, who have a new blog:
The 2009 Freshkills Park tour season has started! We offer free bus tours two Saturdays per month from April through November. The tours are led by a NYC Urban Park Ranger, and travel to the top of two capped and closed garbage mounds where participants […]
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 […]
Posted in Community, Miscellany, Parks and Open Space on Apr 4th, 2009
Nothing too crucial, but this sounds awfully cool:
FlyNY, in partnership with the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation, is an international design competition open to the design community: designers, architects, engineers, artists, students and children.
How it works:
1) Register: www.flyny.org
2) DESIGN A KITE with friends, co-workers, students, kite-fanatics
3) FLY your kite on Saturday, May 9th, 11AM, […]
Posted in Parks and Open Space on Feb 12th, 2009
Bette Midler’s got a point:
Consider the positive impact when, during the 1930s, New York City built more than 578 new playgrounds and 15 swimming pools, added more than 20,000 acres of parkland, and created more than 84,000 construction jobs. The FDR-era WPA understood that building great public spaces was not indulgent or wasteful; indeed, it […]
Posted in Events, Nature, Parks and Open Space on Feb 12th, 2009
The Bronx River Alliance sends along this wonderful round-up of events. Not exclusively for Bronx River enthusiasts. No excuse for sitting at home bored the next couple of weeks:
February 12, 2009 (5:30 - 7:30 p.m.) Bronx River Alliance Winter Assembly - “I Love the Bronx River”
Harding Park Homeowners & Environmental Center, 1820 Gildersleeve Avenue
Whether you have […]