a reblog covering NYC’s sustainability scene
Posted in Climate Change, Politics on May 7th, 2009
From our friends at Greenpeace. Worth checking out the letter (below the fold) and signing it and sending it. This is pretty important big picture climate stuff, and the moment is now:
Because SustaiNYC signed the National Call to Action on Global Warming, I also wanted to see if you could take a moment today to […]
Posted in Climate Change, Politics on Mar 29th, 2009
Congress will be on recess from April 6-19th. That means they’ll be waiting for us to talk them into voting for strong climate legislation this year. Here’s how to get involved, courtesy of NYPIRG:
Hello NYS Allies,
Last week we hit the coal executives. Our next step is to take our demands for a carbon-free world to […]
Posted in Politics, Transportation on Mar 23rd, 2009
Expect huge fare hikes if the State Senate doesn’t act by the MTA’s Wednesday board meeting. Send a note to your state senator through LCV’s site now.
Eco-politics Daily reports:
Could 12 times be a charm? Taking up a proposal by Assemblyman John J. McEneny, an Albany Democrat, Sen. Darrel J. Aubertine, D-Cape Vincent, has introduced a companion bill that would create year-round urban greenmarkets in cities around the state. Previous versions of this legislation have passed the lower house every session since […]
UPDATE: Here’s the Times on the energy portion of his talk:
“We are going to have take control over our use of energy,” Mr. Paterson said, calling for more energy efficiency and an overhaul of energy generation, transmission and distribution.
Noting that this year is the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s journey up the river that would […]
Posted in Politics on Dec 3rd, 2008
Just got this note from Speaker Quinn–
In spite of months of effort on the part of the New York City Council and environmental advocates, the “Plastic Bag Reduction, Reuse and Recycling Act” - State legislation that undermines and preempts the City Council’s stronger plastic bag recycling legislation - has made its way unchanged to Governor […]
Posted in Politics on Jul 8th, 2008
Steve Cohen, with the help of NYLCV’s Marcia Bystryn, asks if he’s a “green governor”:
While it may seem premature, we decided to review the environmental record of his first 100 days. New York State’s League of Conservation Voters is known for their thoughtful representation of the electorate’s interest, so we asked them for their view […]
Posted in Politics on Jun 20th, 2008
A few weeks back we sent out an urgent plea to send some words of support to Colin Beavan, aka No Impact Man, in front of his meeting with local rep Jerry Nadler about serious climate change legislation. He sends along a very exciting update:
I went to see Nadler with the intention of asking him […]
Posted in Politics on Jun 20th, 2008
UPDATE: Comments from Bloomberg on the passage of these bills:
STATEMENT BY MAYOR MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG ON RECENT PROGRESS IN PLANYC LEGISLATIVE AGENDA
“In the past several days, the State Legislature has passed three bills that were legislative proposals made in PlaNYC, our agenda for creating a greener, greater New York. Today, the Legislature took […]
Posted in Politics on Jun 18th, 2008
Environmental Advocates of New York is always tracking what’s up in Albany. Here are their five most important environmental bills for 2008.
2008 Bills on the Move
Every week during the State Legislative Session, Environmental Advocates of New York reviews every bill introduced by lawmakers. We then issue a memo evaluating any measure that would have significant […]