Archive for ‘Green Building’
Earth Day Celebration at Brooklyn New School (PS 146) / Brooklyn School for Collaborative Studies (Fri, May 2nd, 6-8pm)
Thursday, May 1st, 2008Gotta love Earth Day. It doesn’t matter if you are 9 or 99 years old. Or 999 for that matter, but that might be pushing it.
Tomorrow (Friday, May 2nd) the Brooklyn New School (PS 146)/Brooklyn School for Collaborative Studies is having an Earth Day event with all kinds of green activities, sustainable food, a biodiesel car, you name it.
Friday, May 2
6 - 8 pm
Brooklyn New School Cafeteria
610 Henry Street (between 3rd and 4th Place)
Attendees include:
- CENYC Office of Recycling Outreach and Education
- Green Parents Alliance
- Get Fresh NY
- Added Value Farm
- a Master Composter
- Green Builders
- And more!
Read on for more information about the Earth Day event, BNS/BCS, and definitely do not miss the BNS 2nd grade blog! More below the fold, click the link below…
Thirteen Goes Green For Earth Day
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
The legendary Public Broadcasting System (PBS) channel, Thirteen/WNET has just re-launched a newly re-designed website. In honor of the launch coinciding with Earth Day, the website producers have jammed the site with incredible green content from recent programming and other stories spanning many years.
One of the featured stories/videos on the site is the New York Voices piece on the Newtown Creek/Greenpoint Oil Disaster that GBK originally covered back when it first aired.
REGREEN Brooklyn
Monday, March 17th, 2008Thanks for visiting! Subscribe to the RSS feed, receive posts via email, or find other ways to subscribe in the ‘Subscribe’ box to the left. Thanks again and see ya soon.It’s all green today — Happy St. Paddy’s Day! — so how about GREENING Brooklyn or REGREENING the city? USGBC initially launched LEED as the […]
Edible Brooklyn
Friday, March 14th, 2008I really meant to post this earlier, but even though the course was this morning, I think GBKers will still appreciate the course and keep it in mind for next time.
Creating Green and Edible Cityscapes
Friday, March 14th
9:30 am - 12:30 pm
* Suburban & Urban Permaculture
* Biodynamic Systems
Come and join us to learn about applying permaculture […]
Urban Permaculture: Waste = Food
Friday, February 8th, 2008This article is the first part of an on-going series called ‘Urban Permaculture: An Ecological Design View of Brooklyn and New York City‘.
Waste=Food
Permaculture works with whole systems integrated ecological design goals. We create designs based on our understandings of how the earth works and what human beings truly need for a high quality of life. […]





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