World Water Day at the Central Park Conservancy
Celebrate World Water Day at the Charles A. Dana Discover Center in Central Park and learn about how the water in your city is being maintained!
Planning Kickoff Meeting for Water Day Festival
We need your help to make City of Water Day great. At this first planning meeting individuals, organizations, boaters, and volunteers will discuss ways to improve the event and discuss ideas for activities and programs.
We want your ideas! Join us and other Alliance Partners, vendors, participants, boaters, and volunteers!
Late Winter Birdwalk at Jamaica Bay
A guided walk through Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in hopes of spotting rafts of wintering ducks, several of the areas raptors and the impressive long-eared owl.
Revisiting the Rising Currents solutions: creating buffer zones for the city
As a series of posts on City Atlas have shown, the storm that swamped New York on October 29th pushed climate change onto the national…
Planning the future of NYC: sea gates and visions of LoLo
Could sea gates and “LoLo” be NYC’s solution to and protection against climate change?
A new cost-benefit analysis for storm protection
With powerful storm surges costing the New York Metropolitan Area more and more each year, it is clear that a new flood protection system is necessary. Has it now become economically responsible from a cost-benefit standpoint?
Safe to drink? Water quality after Sandy
As relief and restoration efforts continue, these resources can keep you up to date on what’s coming in to our waterways–and out of our taps.
Swim through NYC now! // A nadar en NYC ya!
NYC parks is offering free swim lessons for all ages and skill levels from October to January.
Robot explores Gowanus Canal, seeks collaborators
The miniaturized exploration of New York waterways continues on Tuesdays and Thursdays in coming weeks, courtesy of Brooklyn Atlantis, a new research project from NYU…
NYC surfers seek ban on plastic bags
I picked one up shopping this morning, writer Ian Frazier has been driven mad by seeing them in trees, and soon they may be banned…
Is it “natural”?
How natural is “natural”? Asking us to reconsider the human element in the creation of NYC’s “natural” landscapes.
Virtual water: tracing our overlooked water sources
In the bustling setting of New York City, there never seems to be a shortage of food, water, or just about any resource we need…
This weekend: explore Newtown Creek at the helm of a motorized toy boat
A unique nautical adventure begins this weekend, and you can participate: it’s the launch of the Newtown Creek Armada, an interactive model boat pond.
A supergroup forms in the anti-fracking movement
Sean Lennon and Yoko Ono joined with activist Mark Ruffalo at a Manhattan press conference this week, adding their voices to the anti-fracking movement at a time when Governor Cuomo is in the late stages of a fateful determination about permitting fracking in New York State.
Manhattan’s East Side waterfront gets some kayaks
Two hundred years ago, launching a small boat from the East Side of Manhattan for an afternoon row or paddle would have been ordinary. But…
The Surfrider Foundation takes on plastic bags
Our reporter Hallie Miller goes a meeting of the Surfrider Foundation’s new NYC branch. Because, yes, we have beaches. And, unfortunately, plastic bags.
Re-thinking ecological concepts // Re planteando conceptos ecológicos
How many paper cups, styrofoam coffee cups, coke bottles, water bottles, and plastic bottles have we used and thrown away like nothing? Too many. It’s…
Green roofs 101
From beehives to gardens to fully-functioning farms, NYC residents have begun to utilize the city’s rooftops in ongoing efforts to go green. But what exactly is a green roof?