State Agencies Go Tap Over Bottles
Posted in Efficiently, Waste, Water on May 7th, 2009
Paterson Orders Agencies to Switch From Bottled Water to Tap [New York Times]
Category Archive for 'Water'
Posted in Efficiently, Water, pollution on Apr 14th, 2009
Mike McGlauglin weighs the good and the bad of Gowanus’ possible designation as a superfund site. [Brooklyn Paper]
The E.P.A. is considering designating the Gowanus Canal as a superfund site. WNYC interviews David Yassky:
The federal Environmental Protection Agency wants to find out. It’s proposing putting the industrial waterway in Brooklyn on its Superfund site. Councilman David Yassky, whose district includes the nearly two-mile long canal, says this is good news.
YASSKY: The Gowanus Canal, […]
We’ve been meaning to spend much, much more time on the issue of proposed natural gas drilling in the watershed that provides NYC’s drinking water. Fortunately, Abrahm Lustgarten at ProPublica has been doing some bang-up reporting on the issue:
Alarms have been ringing for months about the risk that natural gas drilling poses to drinking […]
Gennaro on Hydrofracking
Posted in Water on Mar 18th, 2009
WPIX Channel 11 ran a short piece on the natural gas hydrofracking threat to our drinking water supply.
Council Member James Gennaro (and according to this clip, a former geologist–who knew?) has been all over this for awhile now. Here’s a petition he’s put online.
This Monday’s Green Renter at Solar One:
Mind in the Gutter: How Street Trees Can Manage Stormwater From the Street and Improve Local Water Quality.
with Kate Zidar, Storm Water Infrastructure Matters (S.W.I.M.)
On rainy days, New York City’s sewer system combines everything that is flushed from your apartment with the rainwater that drains from the street. Often the […]
Don’t Drill for Gas in Our Water Supply
Posted in Water on Mar 5th, 2009
Missed the press conference this morning, but this is definitely worth supporting. Kudos to Gennaro for taking the important stand against hydrofracking (fracking!) in the NYC water supply:Councilmembers & Environmental Advocates
To Call Upon New Yorkers To Support
Ban on Gas Drilling in Drinking Water Supply
Asking Community Boards and Every New York City Resident to
Adopt City Council […]
Special event all about gas drilling and water safety:
Special event tonight on Gas Drilling and Water Safety
7:30pm at the Park Slope United Methodist Church, 410 Sixth Avenue at 8th St.
Panel discussion with
Albert Appleton, former NYC DEP Commissioner, Senior Fellow - Regional Plan Association
James Brennan, NYS Assembly member
Joe Levine, co-founder, Damascus Citizens […]
Waterworld NYC
Posted in Art, Climate Change, Stuff We Like, Urban Environment, Water on Feb 12th, 2009
I’ve been waiting to have some time to write something about this Waterpod project that has the potential to be suberbly awesome. But then Lisa Selin Davis went ahead and did the dirty work for me in her (also superbly awesome) Radiant City column in Grist.
Enter the Waterpod, a “floating, sculptural eco-habitat designed for the […]
Protecting NYC’s Wetlands
Posted in Nature, Parks and Open Space, Water on Jan 30th, 2009
Lost in the (justifiably, we suppose) higher profile coverage of city fiscal meltdown, we do have this nice news coming out of the PlaNYC offices:
MAYOR BLOOMBERG RELEASES PLANYC REPORT ON PROTECTING NEW YORK CITY WETLANDS
The Report - New York City Wetlands: Regulatory Gaps and Other Threats - Fulfills […]