JUST BREATHE: A Community Forum on Brooklyn’s Health, Energy and Environment

Saturday, May 17, 10:00 am - 2:00 pm

Currently, New York City stands in violation of federal Clean Air standards.

As a result, asthma rates in some of New York City’s communities of color are four times the national average.

We invite you to come hear first hand from medical, environmental, academic and civil rights experts how to reverse this disturbing trend and to become stakeholders in New York’s environmental and energy future.

An event brought to you by:

SHARE (Safe Healthy Affordable Reliable Energy), Brooklyn Branch NAACP and Medger Evers College

Location:

Medgar Evers College
Presidential Conference Center, Room B1008
1650 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn

RSVP to Craig Wilson at rsvp@shareny.org

Her photographs have graced the cover of the pre-eminent journal Science and the halls of MoMA. Her accolades and recognition stretch from a Guggenheim Fellowship to the prestigious Lennart Nilsson Award for medical, technical, and scientific photography. She has appeared in print and in person everywhere from the NYT, to the University of Toronto’s Department of Physics to the National Science Foundation to Apple.com.

She is Felice Frankel; a largely self-taught photographer and scientist, a product of Midwood High School and Brooklyn College, currently a Senior Research Fellow at Harvard University and research scientist at MIT, and — in the interest of full disclosure — my aunt!

Ms. Frankel took an idea that was previously off-limits — namely altering a scientific image — and, using innate creativity, has turned the world of science communication and imaging on its head.

Wired Science vid:

Read on — by clicking the link below — to explore more of Ms. Frankel’s fascinating and captivating work…

Join me in celebrating the launch of GBK Media by sharing this video slideshow with your friends!

You can find GBK Media on YouTube at this address: youtube.com/gbkmedia. The only all green all Brooklyn video channel on Earth!

Photos and video by yours truly — Ethan Oringel — with the photos taken at Habana Outpost’s awesome — and hopefully annual — Earth Day Expo 2008!

Many thanks to Habana Outpost’s Sean Meehan and Darcy Le Fleming.

And also thanks to Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra for — unbeknownst to them — providing the soundtrack (audio taken from a live show of theirs at Southpaw in Park Slope on April 11, 2008).

You can see, comment on, and share these individual photos at my Brooklyn photo set on flickr.

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.