Gotta 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…

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.

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I 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.
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