Local News > The Fracking Divide: Who Will Prevail In N.Y.? Drilling Debate In Cooperstown, NY Turns Personal Most City Parks Earn Solid Marks, With Some Lagging (NY Times) Fracking Testing Andrew Cuomo (NY Post) Looking To Hydrofracking To Rebuild Upstate Economy (Crains NY Business) Greener Buildings, Greener Cities: Kerr’s NYC Vision (Part I) (Women’s Network for a Sustainable Future) ... Read More »
The New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) released a draft environmental impact statement and issued draft regulations for fracking. DEC will hold four public hearings on these drafts. Each hearing will have an afternoon session from 1pm to 4pm and an evening session from 6pm to 9pm. They will accept comments in written and oral format at the hearings. It ... Read More »
The Atlantic menhaden doesn’t look like much, but it’s not called “the most important fish in the sea” for nothing. These little fish are critical food for striped bass, bluefish, tuna, whales, porpoises, seabirds and other wildlife. Protect Atlantic menhaden from dangerous overfishing » By weight, more menhaden are caught than any other fish on the East Coast, and its ... Read More »
Show us how you can Green Your City. What’s an idea using Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) that can help green your city? No matter where you live, there are ways your city or town can “go greener” through the innovative use of your Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) skills.Planet Connect and Staples want HS students to demonstrate in a 30 second – 120 second ... Read More »
Local News > Bloomberg Speaks Out And Supports Cuomo’s Position Hydrofracking (Capital New York) State Ignores Health Effects Of Fracking (Lo Hud) DEC Says More Time Needed On Hydrofracking Whither New York City’s Solid Waste Strategy? (NYLCV) EPA And N.Y.C. Unite To Aid Jamaica Bay (NY Times) Bloomberg Announces Change by Us NYC Community Sustainability Awards (Glendale Register) NYC’S Greener, ... Read More »
MAYOR BLOOMBERG, U.S. INTERIOR SECRETARY SALAZAR, U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY AND STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION ANNOUNCE NEW AGREEMENTS TO IMPROVE PARKS AND WATER QUALITY AT JAMAICA BAY Advances PlaNYC and Waterfront Vision & Enhancement Strategy Goals Grants From the Rockefeller Foundation and National Grid will Support the Planning Process Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary ... Read More »
In June 2012, presidents, prime ministers and other world leaders will come to Rio de Janeiro for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. With more than 50,000 participants expected, the event will mark the 20th anniversary of the historic first Earth Summit held there in 1992. The “Rio+20″ gathering will set the agenda for the next decade or more ... Read More »
Local News > N.Y. Fracking Panel Defers Report Pipeline Plan Stirs Debate On Both Sides Of Hudson (NY Times) Nerd York City: Why Bloomberg Wants A NYC Tech Campus (Fast Company) Supercharged King Tide Is Coming To Wash Away The City (Gothamist) Parsons Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability Lab Presents Amplifying Creative Communities: North Brooklyn (Cumulus) Community Environmental Center ... Read More »
The Cuomo administration is seeking comments on their proposal to open up large parts of New York state to fracking. What they’d like is suggestions for how to tweak or even improve the regulations. But we’re making the case for a ban on fracking. Will you submit comments to the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) calling for a statewide ban ... Read More »
SIERRA CLUB PRESS RELEASE: The Obama Administration today took a critical step in finalizing protections to keep more than a million acres of public land around Grand Canyon National Park free from mineral exploration and new mining. The decision comes as the lands around the Grand Canyon are threatened by thousands of new uranium mining claims. “The Sierra Club applauds ... Read More »
Local News > NY State Law Will Mandate Commercial “E-Recycling” By Jan 1, 2012 (NY Convergence) Hydrofracking Opponents Slowing Efforts For Drilling Permits (Times Union) NYC DEP Completes Green Roof At Wastewater Treatment Plant (Sustainable City Network) King Tide To Raise Sea Level On Atlantic Coast (NY Times) David Byrne, Janette Sadik-Khan On Why New Yorkers Fight Over Bike Lanes ... Read More »
Show Governor Cuomo and the state’s environmental agency that New Yorkers care about the dangers of dirty gas drilling by means of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” by hosting a party for New York’s water! Join New Yorkers across the state who will host parties for this precious natural resource on Saturday, November 12. It’s easy as 1 – 2 – ... Read More »
Our country is undergoing an unprecedented gas drilling boom that is putting the drinking water supplies for millions of Americans at risk. Oil and gas companies are using a controversial method that involves blasting millions of gallons of chemically-treated water into the earth to extract gas from underground deposits. But thanks to a loophole in the Safe Drinking Water Act, ... Read More »
Local News > Syracuse Joins Albany And Buffalo And Bans Fracking Of Gas Wells (Wall Street Journal) Stanford & Cornell University’s Proposal For A Graduate School On Roosevelt Island Features Environmental Construction Plans (NY Times) A $2.4 Billion Plan For New Green Infrastructure Would Prevent Sewage Overflow In NYC Waterways (Inhabitat) Your Take-Out Containers Are Killing The Environment (Gothamist) Green ... Read More »
Inhabitat’s closing in on the spookiest day of the year, and we know that you’ve been busy at work brewing up some spectacular Halloween costume ideas. But while many of your friends are taking the predictable route and heading over to a big box retailer for any costume they can find in their size (plastic devil horns anyone?), you, being ... Read More »
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