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Comment by Green Edge NYC on November 29, 2010 at 1:45pm

A Mundane Approach to a Vexing Problem
By KATE GALBRAITH
NY Times Published: November 28, 2010

AUSTIN, TEXAS — Building codes are not exactly the stuff of a rollicking supper-table conversation. But experts say that they are among the most straightforward and cost-effective ways to cut energy costs in buildings, which account for about 40 percent of energy use in the United States and Europe because of the need for amenities like heating, cooling and lighting. (READ MORE)

Comment by Green Edge NYC on November 4, 2010 at 2:48pm

BiodiverCITY

PlaNYC is currently taking comments from the public. Did you know that New
York has more nature than any other city in North America?  It includes
real, bona fide nature: forests, marshes, grasslands, and dunes.  Sadly,
we are losing these ecosystems and the wild flora and fauna that live
there mostly due to everyday activities.  Let's get New Yorkers to think
about this nature and why it’s important for PlaNYC to protect it  - by
contributing their thoughts, photographs, videos here:

http://nycbiodiversity.tumblr.com


 

Comment by Green Edge NYC on July 13, 2010 at 2:46pm

New York City to Recycle Clothing, Shoes, Textiles Starting This Fall

by Jesmin Malik Chua  07/06/10

from Ecouterre

Clothes unsalvageable even for the Salvation Army? This September, New York City  will unveil one of the largest textile-recycling initiatives in the country. Its purpose: To make recycling unwanted threads as pain-free as pitching them in the garbage—no small feat, considering that a Goodwill Industries survey of 600 North American adults found that more than half wouldn’t travel more than 10 minutes to save their duds from the dumpster. (Read more)

Comment by Green Edge NYC on March 28, 2010 at 3:51pm

In Brooklyn, Lettuce, Not Steel, Scrapes the Sky
By Annie Novack
THE ATLANTIC Mar 24 2010, 8:59 AM

Today, I farm a 6,000-square-foot roof-turned-vegetable-farm on the
shoreline of the East River in Greenpoint, North Brooklyn. I believe
it's the only full-on commercial green roof growing in the country, to
date. Built atop a sound stage warehouse by television and movie
production company Broadway Stages, and installed by green roof company
Goode Green, the Eagle Street Rooftop
Farm is entering its second spring this year. I aim to produce
enough food to supply area restaurants, a weekly farm-based market, and a
new community supported agriculture (CSA) subscription program that
runs the length of New York City's 22-week growing season. (Read More)

Comment by Green Edge NYC on March 27, 2010 at 9:38am

EVENT: March 31st
No Wars and No Cars -- Ecocities according to Richard Register
(More Info)

Comment by Liz on March 4, 2010 at 10:03pm

Hi Sustainable Cities Group!

I'm participating in Eyebeam's Urban Wilderness Action Day and would love to see some of you there. It's on March 20th and I'll be recreating a wilderness landscape using repurposed materials (fabric, plastic, umbrellas, etc.). I'll also be collecting signatures to propose to the city that street tree beds be made larger to ensure tree survival.

Here's more info about the event:

http://www.eyebeam.org/events/electrosmog-festival-urban-wilderness...

And my wilderness intervention proposal:

http://uwac.anewfuckingwilderness.com/2010/02/24/the-preservation-r...

Hope to see you there!

Comment by Judy Harper on January 10, 2010 at 7:55pm

Street Corners vs. Cul de Sacs
New York Times Published: January 9, 2010
By DAMON DARLIN

Real estate agents often chant the mantra “location, location, location,” which essentially means “find a home in a well-kept neighborhood with good schools and a low crime rate.”

Some may cite a fourth factor, “walkability,” a concept supported by self-styled “new urbanists” who advocate denser cities designed for the pedestrian and mass transit as much as for the car. In their ideal neighborhood, you could walk to a bookstore and then to an ice cream shop, and your children could walk to school, probably unescorted. (It sounds like so many movie depictions of America in the 1950s.) (Read More)

Comment by Judy Harper on October 30, 2009 at 1:49pm

Take a look at this blog: Urban Gardens: Unlimited Thinking For Limited Spaces.