Category: LIVING GREEN
Majora Carter in Harlem at the Schomburg for Earth Day — Green the Ghetto and How Much It Won’t Cost Us
The Schomburg Center celebrates the 40th anniversary of Earth Day with speaker and activist Majora Carter. Carter, a MacArthur-winning activist, environmental justice advocate and economic consultant founded Sustainable South Bronx to achieve environmental justice through economically sustainable projects. As president of the Majora Carter Group she has extended her reach beyond the Bronx to include [...]
The Fruitful Wound at Casa Frela Gallery
Casa Frela Gallery presents The Fruitful Wound, photographs of Harlem’s gardens and open spaces by Dennis Santella. The exhibition opens with a gala reception from 4PM to 7PM on Saturday, July 18th, 2009. The show runs through August 22nd, 2009. For a full year, Dennis Santella has been searching out and photographing gardens and green [...]
Freecycling Around Harlem and Around NYC
What are you doing to go green? Have you made any lifestyle changes to help the environment? One day I ran out of paper and needed to print something. (Sometimes I’d rather read from paper than my computer.) Since it was night and I couldn’t get to Staples, I improvised. I inserted used paper into [...]
Going Green Around Harlem and Around NYC
If you’re like me, lately you’ve been bombarded with “Go Green” messages. I find that some articles are little blurbs, but don’t offer significant tips and suggestions. Below is a list of concrete suggestions that can make a significant impact overall. Switch to ENERGY STAR® Qualified Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs (CFLs) — ENERGY STAR® qualified [...]
Green Business Solutions Around Harlem and Around NYC
Today, Governor David A. Paterson introduced a package of bills to advance New York’s emerging clean energy economy, create jobs, protect the environment and save the taxpayers millions of dollars. He states, “By investing in clean energy technologies and expanding the State’s energy efficiency programs, we are creating New York’s new economy. These bills will [...]
Will La Marqueta Return to East Harlem?
La Marqueta is a marketplace under the Metro North railway tracks between 111th Street and 116th Street on Park Avenue in East Harlem. During the 1950s and 1960s, over 500 vendors operated out of La Marqueta, and it was an important social and economic venue for Latinos in New York. The market was originally an [...]
Fresh — Screening and Panel Discussion
FRESH celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Among several main characters, FRESH features urban farmer and activist, Will Allen, the recipient of MacArthur’s 2008 Genius Award; sustainable farmer and entrepreneur, Joel Salatin, made famous by Michael Pollan’s book, the Omnivore’s Dilemma; and supermarket owner, David Ball, [...]
Evo Morales Comes to Harlem
Bolivian President Evo Morales is scheduled to speak at Salem United Methodist Church in Harlem when he visits the United Nations on April 22. On April 14, Morales and his supporters ended a five-day hunger strike in victory after Bolivia’s congress passed a law guaranteeing 14 congressional seats for Indigenous candidates and allowing expatriates the [...]
A Look Back — The Life of Clifton “Chuck” Sutton
Clifton Rolet Sutton, 58, a journalist, environmental activist, community organizer and co-executive producer of It’s Showtime at the Apollo, died recently. He was the nephew of Percy Sutton. At his funeral, speakers told of the powerful role he played in Harlem politics over the last 30 years of his life, including his work with Governor [...]
Raw Soul — Healthy Vegan / Vegetarian Eating in Harlem
Raw Vegetarian Pizza *** Near the corner of 145th and St. Nicholas, smack dab in the middle of Harlem’s Sugar Hill, there’s a Dunkin Donuts, Famous Fish (really, they’re famous) with its line of people stretching down the block and a couple of other typical Harlem take out spots. Then, there’s Raw Soul, an all [...]
West Harlem CSA Brings Organic Food to Harlem
The West Harlem CSA provides an affordable alternative to standard grocery shopping. They work to provide healthier food choices for West Harlem residents where options are limited and many budgets are constrained. What is CSA? CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture. It’s a partnership between a community and a farm. The farmer gets a guaranteed [...]
Translating Science to Policy — Protecting Children’s Environmental Health
The Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health, in collaboration with its lead community partner, WE ACT for Environmental Justice, is hosting a day-long conference that will focus on three major environmental health concerns affecting children: air pollution, pesticides, and endocrine disruptors in consumer products. The purpose of the conference is to share research findings from [...]
Cornell West in Examined Life at the IFC Film Center — TODAY
“The unexamined life is not worth living.” -Socrates *** Examined Life pulls philosophy out of academic journals and classrooms, and puts it back on the streets. In Examined Life, filmmaker Astra Taylor accompanies some of today’s most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them [...]
Al Gore to Join the Obama Administration
I look forward to serving in the Obama administration and while I cannot yet reveal what my exact role will be, I can assure you that President-Elect Obama and I are eager to get started building a new world. One that is green and sustainable. There is an economic crisis taking place in financial centers [...]
WE ACT Environmental Justice Centers Wins Green Building Competition
On September 24, 2008, The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Mayor’s Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability (PlaNYC) named the planned new headquarters for WE ACT for Environmental Justice, a leading advocate for environmental justice for two decades, as a winner in the jointly sponsored 2008 Green Building Competition for New York City. Anthony [...]
