Green Brooklyn Founder Interviewed For Cool New NYC Website
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And they thought GBK was cool before the redesign! 
Cool In Your Code asked me to do an interview for Earth Day coverage in their Around the Blog section, and I was happy to oblige.
You can read the whole interview here. Also check out posts in the Brooklyn section.
CIYC is an Emmy-award-winning television program airing 3 nights a week on NYC TV Channel 25 (see this link for listings). They won for the “Back on the Block” segment — one of six New York Emmy nominations they received for the 2007 season. CIYC also has a local media channel in London, England where they cover the 120+ postcodes through a partnership with TimesOnline.
While the interview doesn’t get too deep into my thoughts about ways to green Brooklyn, it is an interesting window into my life and how GBK came to be. Some interesting stories and revelations, like the story about how I moved next-door to my great-grandfather’s first apartment in NYC almost exactly 100 years later, or my insider tips on how to find cool hidden gems in NYC (*hint* walk!).
CIYC introduces the interview thusly:
Even the internet’s becoming eco friendly. Environmentalist do-gooders take to the blogs in a grass roots initiative known as greenbrooklyn.com. But before you get on them for the large amounts of energy they’re using to sustain their daily posts of reduce, reuse, recycle - hold your cynical tongues: they use 100% wind powered website and email servers. You may know which bin to put your plastic bottles in, and hopefully wait until the next garbage can to toss out your gum. But with congestion rates on the rise, and city waste at an all time high, Ethan Oringel, Co Creater and Founder of the environmentally conscious url says there’s much more to learn.
For the record, I think we all have a lot to learn about sustainability and how to make it work!
As everyone knows, there is a LOT going on in NYC that is cool, so go check out the site. You can find some good local news organized by Codegory or by area — as seen by the CIYC map to the right.
GBK is all about local local local. So we love local media like this. If anyone has any tips on other cool sites like this, leave them in the comments or get in touch!
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sunny: I need compost for my garden in brooklyn….just so desperate, had to pay like $8 from whole foods for compost.
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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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