New York Loves Earth Day
by Celine Ruben-Salama, New York, NY 
on 04.20.07
For most TreeHuggers, Earth Day is every day. So why get excited? Because there are so many fun events happening on and around April 22nd. The festivities kicked off in style yesterday. EGBNY, in collaboration with Teknion, GreenDrinks NY, and o2NY, put on Project Earth Day, an Eco Fashion show, celebrating and showcasing emerging eco-designers such as aGaiN NYC, Contessa d'Eleganza, Bahar Shopar, NaturevsFuture, Entermodal, Ekovarhuset and many more.
Below the fold is a partial list of happenings in New York City. Please add your tips and suggestions in the comments section!
4/21-4/22 10am-6pm, Spring Awakening: Earth Weekend at Hell's Kitchen Flea Market W39th St bet 9th and 10th Ave.
A weekend long outdoor bazaar featuring eco-conscious purveyors. Special participants include Garden In Transit, Project GreenHouse, Mr. Ellie Pooh, City of New York Dept. of Sanitation, Good Magazine, Earthwise Bags, Ingeo NatureWorks and Organic Avenue.
4/20-4/21, EarthFair in Grand Central Station
Enjoy large scale projections of Earth and interactive exhibits that help educate and inspire New Yorkers on how to be conscious consumers and more active citizens. Come and meet TreeHugger and enjoy free concerts! More info here.
4/20 – 4/22, Green Apple Music and Arts Festival, All over the city and in Chicago and San Francisco!
Enjoy concerts all around the city and a big free one on Earth Day in Central Park! Details here.
4/22 1-6pm, Swap-O-Rama-Rama, New York University Eisner & Lubin Auditorium 60 Washington Square South, 4th Floor
Bring $10 and any size bag of your unwanted clothes to participate in this large scale clothing swap featuring DIY workshops and a fashion show of rescued duds.
4/22 8am-2pm, Electronics and Clothing Recycling Event, Union Square North
Safely dispose of old computers, gadgets, batteries, clothing and sheets. Even if you don’t have stuff to drop off, swing by to check out mountains of expired electronics and familiarize yourself with the e-waste issue.
4/22, 11am-8pm. Green your wardrobe at Kaight! 83 Orchard Street. Stock up on organic cotton tees, socks, skivvies and denim; bamboo sweaters and separates; and reclaimed leather totes. Kaight will donate 10% of all in-store sales to Earth Pledge.
4/22 Natural Heights Clothing Swap, Natural Heights 688 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn
Bring at least one gently used item of clothing. All of the clothing will be "auctioned off" and the audience will decide who takes home each item. Also, button making workshop with Allison Teich of aGaiN NYC.
4/24 LVHRD: Bi-Fold III: GRN, Location will be revealed to ticket holder by text message on the day of the event.
LVHRD (pronounced: Live Hard) welcomes Eco Fashion designer Marci Zaroff and industrial designer Russell Robertson for a presentation on organic fashion and the future of public transportation hosted by The No Impact Man, Mr. Colin Beavan. Get in on the action here.
4/24 7:00-8:30pm, Green Apple Talk #3: Environmentalism Now, The Strand Bookstore
Panel discussion exploring how far the environmental movement has come since the first Earth Day in 1970, featuring Ramon Cruz, of Environmental Defense, Emily Gertz, co-author of Worldchanging: A User’s Guide to the 21st Century, Aaron Naparstek, of Transportation Alternatives & Streetblogs.com and super model Anne-Marie Van Dijk. Moderated by Bryan Keefer.
4/25 6pm-8pm, Net Impact NY Professionals Chapter presents: At Home in the World, Kips Bay 2007 Decorator Show House, 14 East 82 Street, (Btw. Madison & Fifth Avenues)
Explore six spectacular floors of the 35th annual Kips Bay Decorator Show House—with green design elements throughout; Connect and network with our community over organic light fare and sustainably produced drink in the grand entrance hall; Get inspired by learning what two highly creative and charismatic eco-preneurs are doing to green different consumer markets, locally and globally. Register here.
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Here at Rockefeller University on the upper east side we just went live for Earth Day with our green blog, where I'm keeping track of the efforts of the campus Green Task Force that's working to reduce RU's environmental footprint.
It's at http://green.rockefeller.edu
NYC treehugger readers, please think of adding us to your newsreader! Bringing the expertise of the online green community to our local efforts would be welcome.
Here are 2 more on Sunday the 22nd:
Bill McKibben, leading environmentalist will be the Guest Preacher at Cathedral Of St. John The Divine, 11 AM – 1 PM at Amsterdam Ave at 110th Street, Manhattan
Come to a free screening of An Inconvenient Truth with a brief talk on How to Live Green in NYC by Green Map's Director, Wendy Brawer at lululemon athletica, corner of Broadway and 64th on the Upper West Side. Starts at 8pm.
To celebrate earth day, let's start the first step:
Green our offices.
Thank you for the mention of Earth Weekend at Hell's Kitchen Flea Market. The weekend was a great success, with the green products--such as Mr. Ellie Pooh Paper Products--and eco-promotion/education items--such as Ingeo reuseable shopping bags made of corn fiber--going like hot cakes. Importantly, the regular vendors did well, too. Antiques and collectibles are themselves products that are--by definition--reuseable items, and sales were strong. One vendor sold two Japanese brass and copper antique coat racks for a total of about $11,000. Vintage clothing dealers did extremely well, too.