a reblog covering NYC’s sustainability scene
Posted in Water on Jan 16th, 2009
As they are prone to do, Gotham Gazette has a well-written, comprehensively reported, illuminating piece on a serious and timely environmental issue. This month, Dara Miles tackles the proposed gas drilling of the Marcellus Shale formation that buts up a little too close for comfort to the watershed that provides our city’s drinking water (and […]
From Environmental Advocates of New York:
New York’s century-old water system faces new challenges as it stretches to meet the needs of a growing city. Can we ensure a supply of fresh water indefinitely? How can we reuse so-called “grey” water, and how can we keep sewage overflow out of the rivers?
Emily Lloyd, former commissioner […]
Interesting to see how this case plays out. There are no shortage of arguments for why having an aging nuclear facility within 25 miles of the country’s largest metropolitan center is a terrible idea, but maybe it takes dead fish to get people talking. Weird world. From North County News:
A lawsuit claiming that the Indian […]
Posted in Urban Environment, Water, pollution on Jul 14th, 2008
[Image by flickr user mercurialn]
While we’re on the subject of stink, here’s some news about Newtown Creek.
From the Times:
Newtown Creek, the polluted estuary that separates Queens and Brooklyn, should be named a federal Superfund site, a move that could hasten long-stuttering cleanup efforts, a pair of New York lawmakers say.
Representatives Anthony D. Weiner and Nydia […]
Posted in Green Building, Urban Environment, Water on Jul 3rd, 2008
Really good news for anyone looking to put some grass on their roof. From The Sustainable Cities Blog:
On June 24th, Assembly Bill 11226 was passed allowing building owners in New York City who install green roofs on at least 50 percent of available rooftop space to get tax credit for it. Property owners will be […]
Posted in Conservation-Preservation, Nature, Parks and Open Space, Water on Jun 30th, 2008
[Photo from greenbuildingsNYC]
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 […]
From the NYLCV’s ecopolitics daily:
Next spring, 490 acres of polluted mud will be dredged out of a stretch of the Hudson River so toxic that fish are considered unfit for consumption, according to the Buffalo Times.
To kick off the six-year project, General Electric is building a wharf, processing facility, and rail yard to remove […]
Posted in Water on Jun 26th, 2008
Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance (MWA) go regularly to great lengths to remind us that this is a city of water. Now they’ve got a new website to help make the point. From their new newsletter:
MWA’s City of Water Day will be Saturday, July 26th from 10 AM to 4 PM on Governors Island. We will be […]
Posted in Community, Food, Urban Environment, Water on Jun 22nd, 2008
Urban Studio Brooklyn (USBK), a project of Habana Works, has a very cool project going on this summer.
WHAT:
In 2008, Urban Studio Brooklyn will partner with the Lower East Side Ecology Center and pedicab designer George Bliss to design and build a one-of-a-kind mobile wetlab and fishing clinic: The Fishmobile. The human-powered vehicle/spectacle will be built […]
Posted in Community, Conservation-Preservation, Environmental Justice, Nature, Parks and Open Space, Water on Jun 17th, 2008
[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 […]