a reblog covering NYC’s sustainability scene
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 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 […]
Posted in Waste on Dec 31st, 2008
at Mulchfest!
Give More, Waste Less….
MULCHFEST
Recycle Your Tree!
Saturday, January 10, 2009 and Sunday, January 11, 2009
10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Bring your holiday tree to a designated city park to be recycled into mulch that will nourish plantings across the city! Remember to remove all lights and ornaments before bringing the tree to a Mulchfest site.
Want Mulch?
You […]
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 Parks and Open Space, Water on Jun 3rd, 2008
William C. Thompson Jr. and Robert Kennedy Jr. had an op-ed in the Times last week about Ridgewood Reservoir that calls into question some Parks Department plans to “renovate” the long abandoned reservoir as athletic fields.
It begins:
MANY people are astounded to learn that there is a teeming wildlife preserve in New York City. Ridgewood Reservoir […]
Posted in Community, Parks and Open Space on Apr 22nd, 2008
[Image from Gothamist]
From Gothamist:
First Lady Laura Bush was in Battery Park yesterday to help the National Park Foundation launch First Bloom, a program to encourage children in urban centers to learn about the environment and what they can do for their parks and neighborhoods.
The program sounds awfully nice. And regardless of how you feel about […]
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 […]