News from the past week:
NYC Students Rally Together (NYC Private Schools Blog)
Groups Urge Opening of Vacant Condos to the Poor (City Room)
‘Suspects’ Talk Back: Muslims Complain to FBI (City Limits)
Poverty Fighters Get Their Own Consultancy (City Limits)
Helping Spin Gold From a Pile of Garbage (New York Times)
U.N. Special Rapporteur on housing comes to Harlem (Amsterdam [...]
Don’t forget to vote today. The polls are open until 9:00p.m.
To find out who’s on the ballot and what they stand for, see the Campaign Finance Board’s Voter Guide. (Be sure to read the ballot proposals too!) Note that the web version has more updated information than the guide that was mailed to your house, [...]
News from the past week:
Indigenous immigrants demand adult education programs (Diario de Mexico via Voices That Must Be Heard)
Condos, Condos Everywhere (The Wonkster)
At Bronx River, an Invitation to Text the Fish (Tremont Tribune)
A Room and Not Bored: One Path out of Shelter (City Limits)
Enviromedia Mobile Unveils at Borough Hall (GreenBeat Brooklyn)
Bloomberg Announces Green Jobs (Sustainable [...]
News from the past week:
Arts Education and Graduation Rates (New York Times)
Lanes for Buses Only, and New M.T.A. Chief Means It (New York Times)
Ruling Eases Transgender Name-Change Process (City Room)
Competing visions spark turf war in Longwood Park (Hunts Point Express)
Green Energy Alternatives: The Theme Park — It’s Happening, on Ward’s Island (gbNYC)
Hot for farmer! (New [...]
One of the ten finalists of CNN’s Hero of the Year contest is Jorge Muñoz of Queens. A school bus driver, he spends his off-hours handing out free food and beverages to immigrant day laborers who gather on Roosevelt Avenue under the 7 train in Jackson Heights.
Muñoz and his family are there distributing meals seven [...]
Today is Blog Action Day, when thousands of bloggers agree to post about the same global issue. This year’s topic is climate change.
Bloggers around NYC are getting in on the action:
A comic strip by N.C. Winters on Freelance Switch
Eco-friendly restaurants at the Directory of New York City
Going beyond green consumer choices by Soilicious: Green Life [...]
In the news recently:
Diversity Diminishes Closer to the Top at NYC Nonprofits and Foundations (New York Nonprofit Press)
Flood Harvesting Housing Brings Tidal Power to New York City (Inhabitat)
Without Cars, a Different Sort of 42nd St. (New York Times)
Poster-Loving Civic Groups Protest Steep Fines (City Room)
Scandal Leaves Lack of Service in Its Wake (City Limits)
The Immigrants [...]
In the news recently:
To Help the Bronx, They Circled Manhattan by Boat (City Room)
Longer Lines at Food Banks in the Bronx (City Room)
City Admits Lapse in Data Release (City Room)
Lessons from a Large Family (New York Times)
Neighborhood Voices: A friend is gunned down (Hunts Point Express)
Young Local Farmers (Ditmas Park Blog via Brooklyn Green Team)
Proposed: [...]
The Win-Win Campaign sounds to me like it would deliver about four big “wins.” So, who wins?
Youth: The training and internship program equips young people with green job skills, preparing them for work in a growing sector.
Small businesses: Small businesses can cut down on expenses by increasing energy efficiency, and better communicate their greening [...]
Loving Maira Kalman’s latest post, “For Goodness’ Sake,” an ode to New York City’s public servants and volunteers.
Scrolling through her intriguing illustrations and handwriting will give you a glimpse of the unexpected beauty to be found in the offices of City Hall as well as the Newtown Creek sewage treatment plant.
Inspired?
