Get to know your local greenmarket
NYC now has 54 farmers markets covering every borough, with over 230 local farms and suppliers participating. Here’s a comprehensive guide to buying local food outside this summer.
Children design the ideal city // Los niños diseñan la ciudad ideal
Even though the day was hot and the park looked more like an arid desert with few green bushes, the children there concentrated on their dream: building their own ideal cities.
SWIM NYC
There are a number of free beaches and pools in all five boroughs for New Yorkers who can’t flee the city during the hot summer months.
Brownfields or Vacant Lots In Your Life?
Is the New York City summer weather inspiring you to start a garden or farm? Unsure if your local vacant, empty space or yard is…
World’s largest rooftop farm in Brooklyn
Brooklyn will soon be home to the world’s largest rooftop farm thanks to BrightFarms and a partnership with A&P.
David Byrne, David Owen, and running toward the city
Could diversifying New York’s economy be a deep way to both address urban success and environmental well-being?
So fresh and so green
GrowNYC has been working, with the help of the consumer (you!) to make NYC a more sustainable city for the environment, as well as homo sapiens!
Enjoy fun in the sun at a historic grand re-opening
Thursday, June 28th marks the grand opening of McCarren Park Pool in McCarren Park, Brooklyn. I should say re-opening. Located within the 35-acre McCarren…
Explore the city’s blue spaces
We know that Manhattan is an island surrounded by water, but it doesn’t always feel that way. Take some time this summer to explore the city’s waterways and learn more about both the green and blue spaces of New York.
Exhibit: Design for the Real World Redux
“Design for the Real World Redux” features submissions to the international design competition for the Victor J. Papanek Social Design Award. Papanek famously argued that “design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical”.
A new entrance at the Botanical Garden // Una nueva eco-entrada en el Jardín Botánico
Remember the old entrance of the Botanical Garden in Brooklyn on Washington Avenue? Well, it changed. // Recuerdan la entrada antigua del Jardín Botánico el Brooklyn sobre la avenida Washington? Pues bueno, cambió.
Pathways in Technology High School
“For every student who comes to P-TECH, they’re going to be a great leader in the city, in another ten years–and we’re so proud of them. But it’s also about the whole economic development of New York City… ”
Open plans for your cycling summer
Summer has arrived! Soon enough, you’ll be seeing blue. Thousands of blue bicycles.
How to surveil yourself for (y)our own good
Though environmental standards have improved over the past decades, in these muggy days of early summer in New York the quality of our air and…
The first Food Book Fair comes to Brooklyn
This weekend will be the first annual NYC Food Book Fair – celebrating food writing, reading, and activism.
An art exhibit in Bedford Stuyvesant works to inspire change
A new exhibit at Skylight Gallery in Brooklyn is showing the work of 27 artists brought together on the theme of sustainability.
Olmsted’s Homesteads
It was 190 years ago yesterday, April 26 1822, that Frederick Law Olmsted was born in Hartford, Connecticut. Though he held many titles over a…
Brooklyn’s urban agriculture scene gets a boost
New York-based BrightFarms, Inc., a company bringing locally grown produce to grocery retailers has recently released that it plans to build the world’s largest rooftop farm.