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ReGeneration Roadtrip: Can't fight the tides Verdant Power shows it's got the RITE stuff	Sarah van Schagen	09 Oct 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest post by my travel partner, Todd Dwyer, head blogger for Dell's ReGeneration.org. ----- Four times a day, without fail, New York City's East River will change directions. It's been doing that for ages and will continue to do so long after we are gone. The tides are a constant, powerful force, and the folks at Verdant Power are on Roosevelt Island experimenting with a way to draw energy from them without impeding their flow or harming ...
Topics: energy, hydropower, New York City, ReGeneration Roadtrip, video (all these topics)

ReGeneration Roadtrip: All the world's a green stage The Green Theater Initiative aims to direct change	Sarah van Schagen	08 Oct 2008	Gristmill
Actor Gideon Banner cut his professional stage chops as a performer with Blue Man Group -- and yes, that means he spent his evenings covered ear-to-ear in blue paint. But it seems that a nice shade of green is really more his style. Banner is the founder of the Green Theater Initiative, a nonprofit organization hoping for a curtain call on the unsustainable aspects of the theater industry. Similar to efforts being led by Wicked producer David St ...
Topics: green living, movies, New York City, ReGeneration Roadtrip, video (all these topics)

ReGeneration Roadtrip: Saving the planet, one borough at a time Greening the South Bronx and empowering its community with Green Worker Cooperatives	Sarah van Schagen	08 Oct 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest post from my travel partner, Todd Dwyer, head blogger for Dell's ReGeneration.org. ----- After spending 35 years of her life punching the clock for someone else, South Bronx resident Gloria Walker is ready to start working for herself. Fortunately for her, there's an organization in her neighborhood devoted not only to giving people like her their shot at business ownership, but also at making South Bronx a model for grassroots green ...
Topics: business, economy, environmental movement, grassroots activism, green jobs, New York City, ReGeneration Roadtrip, video (all these topics)

Bloomberg Where He's Planted NYC eco-mayor will seek third term; mayors foresee green jobs		02 Oct 2008	News
Posted at 1:19 PM on 02 Oct 2008 New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is seeking to change term-limit rules and win reelection to a third term; if he succeeds, it will be to the benefit of his ambitious plans to address climate change. Bloomberg's PlaNYC aims to reduce municipal greenhouse-gas emissions 30 percent by 2030 through planting 1 million trees, converting taxis to hybrids, and making buildings ...
Topics: business, climate, energy, green jobs, local politics, New York City, news, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Just the Tip of the Bloomberg Mayor has big clean-energy goals for NYC		20 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 10:54 AM on 20 Aug 2008 New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg touted clean energy Tuesday at, aptly, the National Clean Energy Summit. He said his city has issued a formal request to companies for ideas on how to source electricity from the wind, sun, and waves. "Perhaps companies will want to put wind farms atop our bridges and skyscrapers, or use the enormous potential of powerful offshore winds miles out in ...
Topics: business, energy, local politics, New York City, news, placemaking, politics, renewable energy, wave and tidal power, wind power (all these topics)

National Clean Energy Summit: Hizzoner NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg announces plans for renewable generation in his city	David Roberts	19 Aug 2008	Gristmill
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has become the politicians other politicians love to love, and he came on stage in the wake of a glowing introduction from Harry Reid, greeted by enormous applause. Most of Bloomberg's speech covered familiar ground, bashing federal politicians for inaction on clean energy, lamenting how far behind America has fallen, and boasting about PlaNYC, his city's ambitious green agenda. The one new announcement had to do with NYC's issua ...
Topics: energy, New York City, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

The people came New York City's inaugural Summer Streets event a big hit	David Roberts	11 Aug 2008	Gristmill
StreetFilms writes ... ... the New York City Department of Transportation held its first Summer Streets event on Saturday by opening 7 miles of city streets to pedestrians and bike traffic only. From 7 AM to 1 PM, roads were car-free from 72nd Street to the Brooklyn Bridge with Park Avenue serving as the backbone of the route. ... The general consensus was that the event succeeded beyond even the most hoped for expectations and would pass even the most pessimist ...
Topics: green living, New York City, placemaking, video (all these topics)

Dumb as a Layer of Rocks NYC officials fear natural-gas drilling would taint water supplies		06 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 12:05 PM on 06 Aug 2008 New York City officials want to ban natural-gas drilling within a mile of six major upstate reservoirs for fear that the city's drinking water could become contaminated. Extracting gas from the Marcellus Shale rock layer, as some state regulators and lawmakers are pushing to do, would require shooting millions of gallons of water and unidentified chemicals underground to ...
Topics: energy, natural gas, New York, New York City, news, oil and gas drilling, water pollution (all these topics)

NYC government plans 30 percent carbon cuts by 2017 Energy efficiency is cornerstone of ambitious plan	Adam Stein	17 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Everyone's favorite McKinsey study suggests that America can shed a huge chunk of its emissions through costless measures, primarily in the realm of energy efficiency. The fly in this delicious low-carbon ointment is that the freebie cuts haven't so far happened by themselves, and it's never entirely clear how well an analyst's report is going to translate into reality. How nice, then, that New York City is gearing up to provide the proof point we've all been waiting for. ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, energy efficiency, greenhouse-gas emissions, New York City (all these topics)

Greening the city	David Roberts	05 Jul 2008	Gristmill
They're making green videos over at The New Republic -- here's the first one, from Dayo Olopade:
Topics: environmental movement, grassroots activism, New York City, video (all these topics)

High Line Park	David Roberts	01 Jul 2008	Gristmill
What's going on in New York with the High Line Park is extremely cool. Check out this video: Yeah, some grumps will argue that public money could be better spent elsewhere, but when is that not true? Sometimes you gotta do something pretty even though it doesn't make sense. Hardly worth being human otherwise.
Topics: New York City, public lands, green space, green living (all these topics)

Coal credit? NYC comptroller urges scrutiny of tax-free bonds for coal-fired power plants	Frank O'Donnell	18 Jun 2008	Gristmill
It hasn't made big news yet outside of specialty publications such as Bond Buyer. But a call this week by New York City Comptroller William C. Thompson could cast a new cloud over a half-dozen or more planned new coal-fired electric power plants. Thompson called on the U.S. Treasury Department to investigate the practice of using tax-free bonds to finance new coal plants. In the letter, online at www.comptroller.nyc.gov, Thompson pointed to recent resea ...
Topics: New York City, economy, business, coal (all these topics)

Brooklyn's hopeful gardeners Low-income nabes lead the way in urban farming	Emily Gertz	13 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The Garden of Hope -- the new community green space I covered this week on Grist -- is just one facet of Brooklyn's community gardening scene. While writing this story I spoke with Susan Fields of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's GreenBridge program, which reaches out to neighborhoods all over Brooklyn to encourage and to support many levels of gardening -- from the 'Greenest Block in Brooklyn' contest all the way to the Urban Composting Project. 'There's a growing focus ...
Topics: farmers markets, food, gardening, local food, New York City (all these topics)

Give my regards to Broadway The Great White Way goes green	Sarah van Schagen	11 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Photo: Springsun via Flickr Mamma Mia! Broadway is going green. Inspired by An Inconvenient Truth, producer David Stone (who recently greened his hit musical Wicked) met with other Broadway big-wigs and the folks at NRDC in an effort to get the theater industry singing a more sustainable tune. There may be five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes in a year, but how much of a difference could this greening make? Well, they say the neon ligh ...
Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, celebrity, energy efficiency, green living, New York City (all these topics)

Room to Grow Big urban parks sprouting across the U.S.		14 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 4:47 PM on 14 Apr 2008 Four major cities are poised to create urban parks several times bigger than New York's iconic Central Park, itself a not-at-all-shabby 843 acres. In Orange County, Calif., a portion of a former air station will become a 1,347-acre park; in Memphis, a 4,500-acre former prison farm has been snatched from developers by a conservation easement; Atlanta is trying to add enough parkland to attach nearly every nei ...
Topics: green space, New York City, news, placemaking, urban planning (all these topics)

Apples to Apples Apple Inc. files complaint over NYC's green branding		07 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 4:43 PM on 07 Apr 2008 Macintosh manufacturer Apple Inc. and a New York City environmental initiative both have apple logos, but is that an original sin? Apple Inc. thinks problems will stem from the too-similar logos, and has filed a trademark infringement complaint against GreeNYC, the Big Apple's campaign to boost environmental awareness. But a spokesperson for New York City's marketing arm disputes the core prob ...
Topics: advertising, business, New York City, news, tech (all these topics)

Them's the Brakes Manhattan congestion-pricing plan kicks the bucket		07 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 1:06 PM on 07 Apr 2008 Hopes had run high that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's ambitious congestion-pricing plan for the Big Apple would move forward, but the measure has died a quiet death. Democratic members of the State Assembly, determining that the measure was overwhelmingly opposed, neglected to even bring it to the Assembly floor, instead shooting it down with a secret vote. The now-dead plan would have cha ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, climate change mitigation, legislation, New York, New York City, news, placemaking, politics, state politics, urban planning (all these topics)

The Pricing Is Right New York's new governor supports congestion pricing		24 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 2:40 PM on 24 Mar 2008 Brand-spankin'-new New York Gov. David Paterson has announced his support for a controversial congestion pricing plan. The proposal, put forward by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and supported by former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, would charge $8 to drivers entering Manhattan during peak hours. Said Paterson in a written statement, "Congestion pricing addresses two urgent concerns of th ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, climate change mitigation, New York, New York City, news, placemaking, politics, state politics, urban planning (all these topics)

Black Is the New Green NYC unveils new stepped-up emission standards for 'black taxis'		28 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 10:22 AM on 28 Feb 2008 New York City has unveiled new emission standards for its fleet of 10,000 "black taxis" (aka, limos and town cars) that service mostly corporate clients. The plan effectively mandates shifting to hybrid vehicles by 2009 to meet the increased standards of 25 miles per gallon in 2009, and 30 mpg by 2010. The fleet now averages between 12 and 15 mpg. NYC's new "bla ...
Topics: air pollution, cars, climate, New York City, news (all these topics)

Take It Back! No, You Take It Back! NYC mayor says he'll veto an electronics-recycling bill		19 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 1:42 PM on 19 Feb 2008 The New York City Council overwhelmingly passed a bill last Wednesday that would require electronics manufacturers to take back products for recycling. But on Friday, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he'll veto it -- and that if his veto is overridden, he'll choose not to enforce the law. The council estimates that more than 25,000 tons of TVs, computers, cameras, and oth ...
Topics: business, local politics, New York City, news, politics, recycling, waste (all these topics)

Not-so-dirty dancing NYC nightclub groovin' to a green tune	Sarah van Schagen	12 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Dirty dancing is so 2007. An NYC hot spot aiming for LEED certification could become the first eco-club in the U.S., W Magazine reports:Jon B., owner of Manhattan nightclubs Home and Guest House, plans to open Greenhouse -- the first eco club in the U.S. -- in time to make it New York Fashion Week's buzziest hot spot. In the three-story space on 10th Avenue, LED lights replace standard bulbs, the toilets are programmed to use less water, furniture is covered wi ...
Topics: green building, green living, New York City, placemaking (all these topics)

The terrorists have won Reflections on death by SUV	Charles Komanoff	08 Feb 2008	Gristmill
It was just a matter of time before a World Trade Center survivor became a victim of a different sort of terrorism: death by automobile. It finally happened last month, in lower Manhattan, when a speeding sport utility vehicle struck and killed a woman who had fled the Twin Towers on 9/11. Florence Cioffi was leaving a dinner celebrating her upcoming 60th birthday when a Mercedes-Benz SUV slammed into her on Water Street at 60 miles an hour, according to a Manhat ...
Topics: cars, New York City, placemaking (all these topics)

Gridlock Step Commission approves NYC congestion charge		31 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 4:30 PM on 31 Jan 2008 A New York commission has approved a plan to charge a fee to drivers entering Manhattan during peak hours. The proposal, aimed at reducing traffic congestion and pollution, differs only slightly from what Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed in April; it would charge $8 to drivers entering a certain area between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m., and put the funding toward public transit. The plan must now be approved by the c ...
Topics: New York, New York City, news, placemaking, urban planning (all these topics)

Toxic tuna The mercury problem isn't contained to New York City's sushi restaurants and markets	Andrew Sharpless	25 Jan 2008	Gristmill
In case you needed another reason not to consume the dangerously overfished bluefin tuna: This week, The New York Times had a story about a study of mercury contamination, conducted by the newspaper, of leading sushi restaurants in New York. Guess which species showed the highest level of mercury? In the study, the Times collected samples of tuna sushi from leading restaurants like Blue Ribbon Sushi and Nobu Next Door. The results 'found so much mercury in tuna su ...
Topics: food, toxics, mercury, fishing, New York City (all these topics)

Out of Tuna Tuna sushi in New York tests high for mercury		23 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 1:24 PM on 23 Jan 2008 Tuna sushi in 20 Manhattan stores and restaurants contained high levels of mercury, according to testing commissioned by The New York Times. In five establishments, fish mercury levels were so high that the seafood could legally be removed from the market. According to a 2007 survey, New Yorkers' blood mercury levels are three times the national average. Recently, mercury has been linked not only to neuro ...
Topics: food, health, mercury, New York City, news (all these topics)

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