Learn how to build a lightweight green roof and save thousands of dollars when you install it yourself!

By taking our workshop Saturday, June 27th, you will not only learn the process how to build a green roof, you’ll actually build one too!

A green roof expert will explain the ins and outs of the process and installation techniques.

PLUS you’ll get info on NY State’s green roof tax abatement, a guide book, tour Eco-Brooklyn’s brownstone (22 2nd St; Brooklyn, NY), and more!

Visit our website to learn more and REGISTER ONLINE NOW: www.greenroofworkshop.com

A message from the Newtown Creek Alliance:

Attention Residents of Greenpoint, East Williamsburg, and Maspeth:

Are you worried about health problems caused by the pollution in your neighborhood?
Would you like the opportunity to tell your story?

If yes, then you may want to be interviewed for a community health project that aims to document the public health concerns of individuals residing in communities along Newtown Creek in NYC. The study will be conducted by a collaborative team from the Urban Public Health Department of Hunter College/CUNY, HabitatMap, and the Newtown Creek Alliance.

Participation will provide you with an opportunity to have your story documented in your own words. With your permission, the information you disclose will be displayed in written and audio format on a website (www.habitatmap.org) and in a report that will be disseminated to community members, media outlets, elected officials, and other interested parties.

Community involvement is important, make your voice heard!

If you have any questions or are interested in participating, please attend the following info session:

Tuesday, June 16th at 7PM
Lutheran Church of the Messiah
129 Russell St. (b/w Driggs Ave. and Nassau Ave.)
Brooklyn, NY 11222

For more information, contact us at:
newtowncreekstudy@gmail.com or (718) 577-1359

Newtown Creek Community Health & Harm Narratives Project (CHHNP)

You may have read about us here back in January. ioby.org is now live.  Visit ioby (eye-OH-be), search for environmental projects in your borough, find one that is meaningful to you, click to make a tax-deductible donation to support it or volunteer to get involved.

ioby stands for “in our backyards” and the belief that environmental knowledge, innovation, action and service begin and thrive at the local level.  On ioby.org groups with environmental projects can quickly connect to the donors and volunteers they need to make positive, environmental change for New York City neighborhoods.

Visit ioby.org or call us if you have questions 212-228-6947.  Follow us on Twitter or join us on Facebook. Read about us on the American Museum of Natural History blog or listen to us on WNYC.

Meet ioby.

Ioby is an online tool for NYC-based groups, no matter how small, to describe and post their local environmental projects in New York City. New Yorkers visit the site, search for projects in their neighborhood, and can click to donate to fund them or volunteer to get involved.  The application for groups is simple and online at ioby.org.  The full site will launch in mid-February; right now ioby is just accepting project applications.

The projects must be local, make no profit, benefit the public, and help the environment.  To see the environmental criteria go to ioby.org. Your group can use ioby to raise funds for concrete projects with a distinct beginning and end or to get volunteers at your events.

Check out the 30-second video here or below:

If you have questions, email Erin at ebarnes@ioby.org.