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PlaNYC: Make it a Social Movement
Central to the City’s sustainability efforts is PlaNYC, the monumental program linking hundreds of greening initiatives across City operations. Yet how sustainable is PlaNYC itself? As a project of the Mayor’s Office, it was created almost completely by government agency staff and consultants. The public wasn’t involved in creating the plan, so no grassroots constituency […]
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Discovery High School; Growing Vegetables and Character
In a community struggling with endemic poverty, unequal access to healthy food and environmental blight, Discovery High School’s Living Environment class has become the unlikely vanguard of an urban gardening movement. Started by Steve Ritz, the program’s teacher and enthusiastic Bronx activist, Discovery is creating positive change, one pound of vegetables at a time. Discovery’s […]
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Compost!
What to do with that pile of food scraps after peeling vegetables? Composting, of course! It may seem a bit difficult in a cramped city apartment without a backyard, but it’s absolutely possible.
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Recycle
According to the EPA, in 2008 Americans had only a 33.4% recycling rate. For something as simple as recycling, that’s not a very high percentage!
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Bring Your Own Water Bottle
It’s important to stay hydrated, so what better way than to have a filled reusable water bottle at easy access all the time?
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