NYCares Volunteers in Stuyvesant Cove Park
Thursday, April 17th, 2008
On April 12, 2008 volunteers from NY Cares, one of New York City’s largest volunteer organizations, came to lend a helping hand in Stuyvesant Cove Park as part of their Hands on New York Day. Hands on NY is an annual event put on by NYCares to assist city parks, community gardens, nonprofit organizations, and homeless shelters revitalize their sites. With over 6,000 volunteers participating at over 100 sites, this years event has been the most successful in the 14 years of hosting the event.
Volunteers at Stuyvesant Cove Park came from Sidley Austin, a large international law firm. The project for the day was to lay down Fibar woodchips on the walking paths throughout the park. Fibar is engineered wood fibers that knit together to form a surface soft enough to cushion falls, yet firm enough for wheelchairs. As part of the original design of the park, all pathways need to be wheelchair accessible so that everyone can enjoy all parts of the park.
The volunteers from Sidley Austin were amazing. The day started at 9:30 with about 15 volunteers hauling mulch into the park. By the end of the day, 2:30 or so, the volunteers completed more than half the park, much more than initially anticipated. Their help and hard work is truly appreciated.
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The U.S. and International Trade in Carbon:Why neither carbon offsets nor cap-and-trade schemes are the solution if keeping fossil fuels in the ground is the challenge
Sunday, January 20th, 2008| January 30, 2008 | ||
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Jutta Kill is a climate campaigner with environmental and social justice group FERN and co-ordinator of the SinksWatch Initiative. FERN works to achieve greater environmental and social justice, focusing on forests and forest peoples’ rights in the policies and practices of the European Union. Ms. Kill, whose formal education is in forest ecology, has worked as climate campaigner for FERN since 2000 and is co-founder of the Durban Group for Climate Justice.
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Open Meeting on Solar in NYC
Monday, January 7th, 2008
Featuring some of the stalwarts of the NYC Solar biz, an open panel + Q&A at a Quaker meeting house on Wednesday Jan 9 offers you a chance to hear it from the horse’s mouth, and maybe even get in a question or two. Also don’t miss Chris Neidl’s upcoming I Heart PV Green Renter.
Agenda:
- Why is it easier to install solar panels on Long Island than in New York City?
- Is funding available?
- How will PlaNYC2030 affect permits for solar?
- Why is energy efficiency so important to installing solar panels?
- Solar experts from Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan will share their experiences regarding installations in the metro area.
- Audience Q & A to follow.
- Richard Klein, Quixotic Systems Inc., Manhattan
- Tom Gately, Green Power Solutions, Queens
- John Siciliani, Duce Green Building, Brooklyn
- Anthony Pereira, Alt-Power, Manhattan
It will be at the Friends Meeting House, 15 Rutherford Place, Manhattan (15th Street between 2nd & 3rd Avenues) at 7pm on Wednesday January 9.
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Water on the Big Screen
Friday, November 2nd, 2007
The Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, the longest-running showcase for international documentaries in the US and one of New York City’s best-kept cultural secrets, will kick off next Friday night at the American Museum of Natural History.
This year’s lineup, as usual, features a broad spectrum of films in both traditional and experimental form that tackle a range of issues from coping with disabilities to global human rights and the plight of indigenous communities. One current issue that many of this year’s entries deal with is water rights and accessibility. As our planet continues to grow more crowded and our environments continue to deteriorate under the prevalence of environmentally irresponsible practices, availability and access to water is quickly becoming one of the more vital concerns of the 21st Century.
Among the festival’s 29 entries, five films (packaged in two separate programs) are dedicated to this pressing issue: “Village of Dust, City of Water” and “Thirst” (@ 3:15 PM on Saturday, Nov. 10); and “El Agua en Tiempos Extras (Water in Extra Times)”, “Gimme Green” and “The Water Front” (@ 1:15 PM on Sunday, Nov. 11). These screenings will be held in conjunction with the museum’s current exhibit, “Water: H20 = Life”, on view through May 2008. As is typical of the Mead screenings, these films will only be shown once during the course of the festival. For more information, click here.
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Lecture This Thursday hosted by Sierra Club NYC
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007 From time to time, we will post notices about non-Solar One events taking place around the city, such as this one coming up this week…..The Great Change: The World Beyond Petroleum
An evening with Albert Bates
Thursday, October 4, 2007, 7:00 – 9:00 PM
Where:
Friends Meeting House
15 Rutherford Place, Manhattan
between 2nd and 3rd Avenues
between 15th and 16th Streets
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