Get Ready to Geek Out - The Maker Faire Comes to New York City... Finally

Save the date: September 25 and 26 at the New York Hall of Science in Queens. There will be over 50 sponsors and over 300 "makers" exhibiting the latest in science and technology. It's a collaborative, interactive event that encourages attendees to participate in the exhibitions. Come with a...

Urban Garden Education in Brooklyn, New York: Just A Passing Fad?

It’s exciting to find that urban gardening, a most graceful intertwining of efforts to green cities and improve public health, has caught on in a major way. Will Allen...

Woodside Bakehouse Bakes Up the Ultimate Vegan Granola Bar

Granola bars are pretty common, but finding one that actually tastes good? That's rare. That's why I was thrilled to find el conejo bars made by Woodside Bakehouse. Not only do they taste good, el...

ROOZT.com Hits that Sweet Spot in Between Saving Money and Doing Good

Now here's something to get excited about: ROOZT.com. It's fresh idea that has the potential of making enormous change - for both the environment and the economy.

ROOZT.com is the first and only deal of the day site that exclusively features socially responsible products. It's simple:...

Build Your Own Electric Vehicle

Why We Need To Be Converting Our Existing Vehicles to Electric Vehicles and our Hybrid Electric Vehicles to Plug In Hybrid Electric Vehicles. Besides The Fact it will help Stop Our Oil Addiction! So They Can Be More Like An Electric Vehicle.

The Gulf Oil spill clearly is making us think...

SCRAP - Scroungers' Center for Reusable Art Parts

According to a recent Waste Characterization Study done by San Francisco's Department of the Environment, nearly 63 percent of the city's 500,000 tons of annually collected garbage is actually either compostable or recyclable...

Mary Mattingly's FlockHouse Addresses the Threat of Rising Sea Levels

New York is a crowded city, both in terms of the number of people who live here, and in its footprint: our apartment towers and skyscrapers press against the water line, and, in some cases, are built over the original boundaries of the harbor and its estuaries (Hello, Battery Park City). If the...

UCLA Institute of the Environment

Situated in a state with incredible biodiversity and unique ecosystems, at the University of California, Los Angeles, in the Court of Sciences area of campus, is the Institute of the Environment (IoE). A center of interdepartmental instruction, our mission is to generate knowledge and provide...

Planet Drum Foundation - Bioregional Education and Action

Planet Drum Foundation (PDF), founded in 1973 to promote the concept of a bioregion through education and action, serves as a “mother” networking source for the worldwide bioregional movement.

Based in San Francisco...

Madiba's Amandla Garden Begins to Grow

You know that ladder that has been leaning against the wall in front of Madiba? That's Zachary Picken's ladder. He's uses it to climb up to a new rooftop garden he's creating called the Amandla Garden. At the time of writing this, Zach had just completed the installation of the garden and so he...

Put Down Roots - MillionTreesNYC

What is MillionTreesNYC?
There are currently 5.2 million trees in New York City, but it’s not enough to sustain a growing population. That’s exactly why the MillionTreesNYC initiative was created....

Fresh Local Food

On Wednesdays we received our Local Produce Link delivery, and every customer took home an armful of healthy, lush vegetables: crisp lettuce, robust bunches of kale, potatoes still earth-scented, shiny collard greens, rosy beets with the tops still intact, giant sweet potatoes, sweet corn in its...

Sustainable Party Supplies

Ms J’s gymnastics and Dance studio hosts dozens of kids’ birthday parties a year and, therefore, has their fair share a collection of trash at the end of every week. Actually, it’s often disgusting how much goes to waste. Uneaten pizza, unfinished cake, soda, and all the plastic containers these...

Organic Baby Care

Shopping for organic baby care products may seem somewhat baffling, but it is not. Keep these shopping tips in mind when searching for your baby's next diaper, toy, health product, or meal.

Choosing Organic Baby Toys
When shopping for organic baby toys, avoid phthalates that are...

Drink Your Way to Better Health? Organic Beer and Wine

Whether you're getting married and looking for the best wine for your celebration or planning a quiet barbecue get-together with friends in your backyard and in need of a good beer, you may want to consider organic options for their health and environmental benefits. And like eating organic food...

Go Native in Your Garden This Summer

Do you find yourself drawn to the bright colors, fragrant blooms, and interesting flower shapes as you walk down the aisles of your local greenhouse or garden center? We've all got different reasons for choosing the plants we do for our gardens.

What are native plants? They are those...

The Importance of Ecotourism

Ecotourism is increasing in popularity across the world, but has significant practical value in developing countries where the needs of impoverished communities may conflict directly with the need to capitalise on the growing tourism industry. In many cases developers move in and designate...

Problems With E-Waste and What You Can Do About It

What is e-waste? Quite simply e-waste is all of those old electronics that we've got that have become outdated and we don't want them anymore. As you can imagine, if you stop to think about it for a minute, technology is progressing at a very rapid pace. This is having a horrible effect on our...

Certified Organic Pet Foods are the Only Organic Pet Foods That are Regulated by the USDA

The pet food market is flooded with all kinds of organic claims. However, only a few of these claims have been substantiated by a third party. Only USDA certified organic pet foods provide the assurance of strict regulation, verification, and legal enforcement to support their status as truly...

What is Solar Power and How Does it Work? A Step-By-Step Guide - Part 2

Having discussed the basic definition of solar power in Part 1 of this series, we'll now move on to discuss the various types of systems used to produce solar power, beginning with grid-tied systems.

Grid-Tied - A Definition

A grid-tied solar power system (also referred to as grid-...

Organic Produce - Organics Outshine Convention

In the 20th Century farming was revolutionized by the introduction of synthetic chemicals in the form of non-organic pesticides, insecticides and herbicides and the widespread systematic use of antibiotics and growth hormones in livestock.

Agriculture became a corporate business and farms...

Green Architecture Benchmarking For Social Issues

As broadly defined, sustainability addresses three primary dimensions: environmental, social or human, and economic. The environmental aspects of green building have received most of the focus as the movement has unfolded, perhaps because they are easier to quantify and may include materials or...

Southside CSA: Supporting Local Farmers Through Community Shared Agriculture

With more and more New Yorkers clamoring for the freshest greens green can buy, CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) pickups are sprouting up around the five boroughs. Southside CSA is one of the trend's...

My Car, Your Car, Zip Car

Rooftop Farms, Brooklyn

Greenpoint, Brooklyn earned its name from the rich, river-front land that made it a natural site for colonial-era farms. Of course, that same location made it a perfect location for heavy industry and these days the name seems like more of a joke as the area is better known for its warehouses...

NYC Markets Reviving Tradition Through Sustainable Symbiosis

Robert LaValva, the founder of the New Amsterdam Market, is a self-proclaimed New Netherlander. "New Netherland," as he uses it, refers to a time when New York City was known as New Amsterdam, the capital of its surrounding territories that collectively composed New Netherland (including...

Faux Meat: A Vegan Faux (Food) Pas?

Chicken parmesan. Philly cheesesteak. Barbeque buffalo wings. While the mere mention of these three classic meat meals is enough to tantalize the tastebuds of any meat lover, they have found an unexpected home in the culinary culture of New York City: the dining tables of vegan/vegetarian...

Four Course Vegan

Private dining clubs, typically held in the chef's lofts or apartments, have been in vogue in New York for the past few years as a way to create a more intimate dining experience, where the only steps between the raw ingredients and your plate are the chefs preparing and (often) serving you the...

Grub

The Rubulad space in South Williamsburg might be better known for its raucous all-night extravaganzas, but two Sunday evenings a month, a more low-key, though no less open-minded gathering takes over. Run by folks from a variety of local groups such as the Toyshop collective, Time's Up and the...