Been wondering what “sustainable seafood” means now that it’s popping up on menus all across the city? A new free online course offers some answers. The newly launched online “Sustainable Seafood Course,” a joint effort of Blue Ocean Institute and Chefs Collaborative, is geared toward, but not limited to, culinary professionals who want to make informed [...] [...more]
The stale “My iPod’s battery is dead” excuse for not hitting the gym isn’t going to work anymore—at least for Yale University students. This semester, students have been powering their iPods, iPhones and BlackBerries while breaking a sweat on 40 stationary exercise machines in the school’s gym. A former engineering student came up with the idea as [...] [...more]
Now that Council Speaker Christine Quinn has been reelected, environmentalists in her Greenwich Village district will watch to see whether she delivers on her latest promises to enforce new laws against idling cars, trucks and buses. Pollutants spewed by idling cars can cause asthma, according to the Environmental Defense Fund. The respiratory condition is a particular [...] [...more]
Mayor Bloomberg’s MillionTreesNYC activists have planted 250,000 trees since their launch in 2007 – but who takes care of them? According to Samuel Bishop, President of the Trees New York organization, “the contractors who put up the trees are only responsible for taking care of them for 2 years. After that it [...] [...more]
Bronx, N.Y. – On an evening when many New Yorkers were engrossed in the Yankees’ final World Series game, the heated discussion unfolding a few miles from the new stadium had little to do with baseball. Rather, it was politics. Gathered at Hostos Community College, a group called the For the South Bronx Coalition – who [...] [...more]
Jersey City, N.J. — A housing project at the mouth of the Holland Tunnel is hardly a place that inspires thoughts of “green” planning. But, with almost $1.5 million of federal stimulus money, the Jersey City Housing Authority is planning to do just that beginning in early 2010. Holland Gardens, a small, brick-faced, 1940s-era housing [...] [...more]
PlaNYC isn’t just about the environment. Amid the worst recession since the Great Depression, it’s jobs, jobs, jobs that matter most. But will the “green collar” jobs created by PlaNYC initiatives benefit all segments of our society equally? One organization intends to make sure they will. The Applied Research Center, a California-based think tank focused on [...] [...more]
Some theaters save on energy costs by ditching big sets and ritzy lighting, but Theater for the New City is taking its conservation efforts in a new direction – up. [...more]
Three of New York City’s independent schools have been recognized as national leaders in reducing greenhouse gas emissions through the use of alternative energy sources. The Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Power Partnership last week ranked the Dalton School, the Nightingale-Bamford School and the Hewitt School fifth, eleventh and thirteenth respectively on the list of the Top [...] [...more]
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