a reblog covering NYC’s sustainability scene
Posted in Media on Jan 25th, 2009
NYU Journalism student Marshall Bell has a released a nice video chronicling some of the NYC sustainability scene. It’s called Slowly Growing Greener. Give a look.
Thanks, Mark (one of the videos interviewees, and a fellow “dork”), for pointing this out. And goodness me–has 3R really been cranking for seven years now? The years, they do […]
Posted in Efficiently, Events, Food on Dec 4th, 2008
Columbia has video up from November’s Politics of Food Conference.
Posted in Livable Streets on Jun 22nd, 2008
For a sense of how the recently announced Summer Streets might play out, look no further than this Streetfilm about Bogota’s Cyclovia:
This is but a shortened version of a longer piece all about the amazing Cyclovia in Bogota. You can check that out here.
Posted in Design, Media, Politics, Urban Environment on May 4th, 2008
When I was working in Cuba, Castro used to talk for 11, 12 hours. When I am happy, I have a bit of the Cuban spirit. And tonight I am happy.
So this isn’t about NYC specifically–but it might as well be. And we’ve spent time in Curitiba, back when we were discovering that environmentalism […]
Posted in Food on Apr 22nd, 2008
The Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, just 30 miles north of midtown Manhattan, is something of a sterling example of local, sustainable food production done right.
From their website:
Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture is a farm, a kitchen, a classroom–an exhibit, a laboratory, a campus. The mission of this unique, nonprofit, member-driven […]