Archive for ‘Recycling’
Earth Day Expo: Going Green Brooklyn Style
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008An Expo the way that only ONLY ‘New York’s first solar powered restaurant’ and Eco-Eatery-extraordinaire can do. Habana Outpost hosts the Earth Day Expo with a celebration of all things green happening right here in Brooklyn.
Brooklyn School Gets Bagasse Lunch Trays
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Bagasse. It is one of nature’s ultimate re-usable materials.
The pulp that remains after you process sugar cane into sugar or ethanol, bagasse can be […]
SEED Turns to Sprouts in DUMBO
Friday, March 14th, 2008March will mean more than the start of Spring — yes, I said the “s” word — in DUMBO. SEED, the new sustainability initiative — Smart Environmental Efforts in DUMBO — is getting right to work with a couple of really great activities coming up.
Oil Drum Art
Gallery Opening:
Thursday, March 20, 2008
7:00 – 9:00PM
Gallery 202
111 Front […]
Ban the Bag: Bloomberg On Board
Friday, February 8th, 2008Image c/o Brooklyn Green Team
As GBK has noted in the past, you don’t have to be a hard-core environmentalist to find the image of a plastic bag stuck in a tree disturbing.
While it is not an all-out ban on the ugly things, Mayor Bloomberg has recently signed a bill into law that would mandate […]
DUMBO SEEDs New Green Program
Friday, February 8th, 2008A new green neighborhood program in DUMBO, an offshoot of the DUMBO Improvement District efforts called SEED (Smart Environmental Efforts in DUMBO), has picked up on NYC’s public recycling program — as mentioned in the previous post — and included it in their new neighborhood greening initiative.
To date, DID has included the planting of over […]




sharon leeds: Hello Green Brooklyn, Santa Barbara here- What is the current status of the banning of Styrofoam there? Also, do you have the list of other cities that have already successfully done...
dorenda: Although I applaud the intent, the new Rockaway service departures are too early and too late. The same applies to the return schedule from Manhattan. This is doomed to fail and once again...
sunny: I need compost for my garden in brooklyn….just so desperate, had to pay like $8 from whole foods for compost.
Not Williamsburgh: We moved to Wburgh from Manhattan about 8 months ago. Very true what the video say, some work places here stinks like old oil, but it’s not until watching the videos about...
ivory Huong: Dear Sirs and Madams, Our company’s name is H-X Export Co.Ltd. We have been manufacturing and exporting cocopeat, bagasse which are suitable for Farm, Greenhouse, horicultural,...
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