Last week, we noted that piles of excavated soil and rubble at the Urban Legend Toxic Lot at the corner of N. 11 Street and Bedford Avenue were not covered by tarps. Such precautions are standards when things are being dug up at properties that have toxic issues. Well, another look this week shows that [...]

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[Photo courtesy of arichman33/flickr]
The Gowanus Goes Green event, which we have posted about before, is this Sunday, June 1, from 11AM-6PM. Our point here, though, is to show how the event is being promoted locally, as per this photo shot on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope. The sponsors are taking the green theme quite literally. [...]

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The Center for the Urban Environment is having a kind of happy hour and recycling opportunity today from 7PM-9PM. They’ll be accepting a bunch of things for recycling, including: alkaline batteries, Inkjet/laser cartridges, Compact Florescent Lightbulbs (CFLs), hard drives, printer cartridges including toner, pagers, PDAS, cords, cables, boards and chips removed from computers. It’s at [...]

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We woke up this morning to an email from a group called The Change You Want to See, that was widely distributed by the New York Action Network point out that today’s Go Green! Greenpoint Earth Day festivities in McCarren Park have a number of interesting corporate sponsors. We’ll start with the most ironic of [...]

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