RECYCLING EVENT
Upper Green Side hosts Recycle-O-Rama: Summer Edition on Sunday, June 26, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. on First Avenue between East 92nd and East 93rd streets. Accepted items include electronics like computers, monitors, printers, network devices, keyboards and other accessories and components, TVs, DVD and VHS players, and cell phones (no appliances). There will also be industrial-grade paper shredding and recycling available, as well as a clothes collection. Contact uppergreenside@gmail.com with questions.
A School Greenhouse Grows on UWS
When Jennifer Betz won a grant for $10,000, she figured it would be best to place the decision-making power of how to spend it in the hands of elementary school students.
Betz, now a teacher at The Dwight School on the Upper West Side, was awarded a grant by Dickinson College, when she was on undergraduate six years ago, through their Teachers for Tomorrow program.
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New Jersey Greener Than New York?
To the Editor:
As one of nearly two and a half million people under 25 who call this city my home, I feel that New York has a responsibility to ensure its young population a safe and sustainable future. New York should be a leader in green development and clean energy, but that’s really far from the truth. New Jersey, for example, has six times the solar capacity of New York. Jersey! Now, that’s embarrassing.
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COMPUTER & ELECTRONICS RECYCLING
Upper West Side Recycling hosts an event to accept discarded computers and other electronics. Accepted items include all computers and peripherals (monitors, printers, cables, etc.), TVs, VCRs, DVD players, stereo equipment, phones, compact fluorescent light bulbs, flashlight-type batteries (with ends taped) and textiles. They cannot accept other types of electronics, such as kitchen appliances and air conditioners, white goods or carpeting. Sunday, May 22, 12–5 p.m., south corner of Amsterdam Avenue and West 110th Street, rain or shine, 212-666-9774.
Time For Solar
To The Editor
It seems like Albany has been talking about clean energy and its potential to create jobs for a very long time. Fortunately, Senator Liz Krueger is doing something about it, and we’d like to thank her for real leadership on this issue.
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Building Manager Develops a “Green” Thumb
Nazario eco-fits The Whitney, while pondering the difference one person can make in life
For over 20 years, Victor Nazario has opened doors, fixed plumbing, changed light bulbs, found dead people, helped save a man’s life and dealt with a slew of complaints. Now, as he caps his sixth year as the residential building manager at The Whitney at 311 E. 38th St., he has been dealing with a new project—making the building green. Read more
Green Answer To Nature’s Call
An “environmental” toilet facility may be coming to Riverside Park’s clay tennis courts, at West 96th Street.
The plan features self-composting toilets, part of a system that would treat and compost waste on site. The facilities—which would likely include a men’s room with a stall and urinal, and a ladies’ room with two stalls—would run on solar power. Waste would be used to fertilize a grassy area that is currently a parking lot. Read more
No Props for the Eco Girl
It’s not easy bein’ green.
I must confess, I am not an environmentalist by nature. But after careful consideration I figured I would give ecology a go, beyond the mandatory bottle and can recycling demands of my co-op.
When I go grocery shopping, I’ve started using my many free cloth bags that I’ve accumulated from various street fairs, my husband’s job and a couple of clothing stores that encourage the demise of the plastic menace. I am also making a conscious effort to remember to fold one up and carry it in my handbag, in case I make an impromptu Gristede’s pit stop for milk or bread. Sure I want to help maintain the planet, but I’m also in it for the acclaim, which I thought came with the territory. Read more
Building a Healthier New York
A few years ago, a Manhattan borough president community initiative called “Go Green” was launched in East Harlem with the help of local Council Member Melissa Mark Viverito. The goal was to engage New York’s dynamic communities in the effort to bring farmers’ markets, greenspace and cleaner air back to our city neighborhoods, and to reduce the impact of environmentally driven diseases, like asthma and obesity.
Go Green was about the sustainability of our neighborhoods, but as the project continued, eventually spreading as far north as Washington Heights and Inwood, and south to the Lower East Side, we realized that the sustainability of New York goes hand-in-hand with the sustainability—i.e., the health—of New Yorkers. Read more
The Greening of Riverside Center
At previous Riverside Center Working Group meetings, Extell Development Company’s representatives have been the leaders, presenting plans and studies about their project, which stretches from West 59th to 61st streets between West End Avenue and Riverside Boulevard. But at Community Board 7’s July 30 meeting, Extell’s team occupied the entire back row of seats for the public, where they scribbled notes and exchanged the occasional whispered comment or snicker. Read more
