Tag: Brooklyn - Page 2
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Guerrilla Gardener Grows Community, Finds God, and a Beautiful Note (Video)
A vigilante gardener shares his experiences of growing food, meeting neighbors, and learning to share.
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Techies Try to Solve Hermit Crab Housing Shortage
Makerbot tries to solve the Hermit crab housing shortage by printing the crabs 3d shells
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Lemonade Out of Lemons: Out-of-Work Day Laborers Open Eco-Friendly Cleaning Service in NYC
The New York Times had a nice story last week about women who would wait at a Williamsburg intersection to find work on a day-by-day basis. But there was no work on far too many days for comfort—getting a job for
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New Green Chinese Restaurant in Brooklyn is Hormone- and Styrofoam-Free
Where but in New York City can you find fresh comforting Chinese food sans Styrofoam, in a restaurant rocking green certified status? Perhaps in one of the many more grub-enlightened cities popping up on the TreeHugger map --
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Huge New Urban Campground Planned for Brooklyn
An old airport used by Amelia Earhart and Howard Hughes is set to become the largest urban campground in the United States -- in the middle of Brooklyn, New York. Parks
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Lillian Folk Opera: A Romantic Approach To Ocean Plastic Pollution
Although raising awareness about plastic ocean pollution was not the main motivation behind its creation, the 'folk opera' album Lillian and its composer Ben Lear have become regulars at events related to ocean
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Creating a Greener City, One Rooftop at a Time
Putting a green roof on a landmark building -- the city hall in Toronto or Chicago, a convention center in Vancouver, San Francisco's California Academy of Sciences -- has long been a highly
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Father and Son Film Outer Space, Do-It-Yourself Style (Video)
Like many youngsters, and those young at heart, seven-year-old Max Geissbuhler and his dad dreamed of visiting space -- and armed with just a weather balloon, video camera, and an iPhone, in a way they did just that.
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NYC Grad Students Reimagine Disaster Relief (Photos)
At an exhibition at the Pratt Insitute's Brooklyn Campus last Thursday, two graduate industrial design students presented to the public their ambitious idea for revolutionizing disaster relief efforts worldwide.
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Opossums Enlisted to Eat Rats Now Overrun Brooklyn
It seemed like a plan just sinister enough to work: ship in a bunch of rat-eating opossums to combat Brooklyn's rodent problem. But as opposed to doing their job and dying off as city officials had planned, the opossums proved to be
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A Rainforest Grows for Brooklyn Bridge: Sustainably Harvested Wood Proposed for Boardwalk
New York City has recently come under fire from rainforest advocates, and rightfully so: The City is the country's number one buyer of endangered rainforest wood. However, as The New York Times reports, a movement
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Bikers Hit the Streets in the 6th Annual Tour de Brooklyn
In a grand finale to National Bike Month, 2,500 bikers will take on an 18 mile, family-friendly course through the heart of the NYC borough. Starting and ending in Williamsburg, the tour will pass
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Miami and Brooklyn Artists Plant a Flag for Nature
Green thumbs in New York and around the world are planting the flag for environmentalism along with roof gardens and native trees as part of two participatory art projects that combine green activism with the power of social
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Bowled Over By LEED Lanes in Brooklyn
Images via Brooklyn Bowl LEED buildings are getting pretty thick on the ground these days, and don't often make it into TreeHugger unless they are pushing platinum or or doing something really special; Brooklyn Bowl falls into that latter category- a
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Sheena Goes Lady Gaga in Raffaele Ascione at Uniform Project Fete
Raffaele Ascione cape worn by Lady Gaga. Credit: The Uniform Project Raffaele Ascione's cape--worn by pop star Lady Gaga--certainly affirms that shoulder pads are in. Sheena Matheiken--the face/body of The Uniform Project--wore the cape, and an entire
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NY Event: Get Yr Fix at Fixers Collective: "An Iron Chef for Broken Things"
Every week the charming little Brooklyn gallery and reading space Proteus Gowanus opens its doors to anyone in need of help -- at least help fixing their broken objects.
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5 in 1: A New Kind of Boutique for a Slow-Fashion Nation
A new fashion revolution is brewing in Williamsburg, fueled by a faltering economy, a desire to rein in the frenetic pace of senseless spending, and the spirit of reinvention. Brooklyn design collective/boutique 5 in 1 recently
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Brooklyn Cohousing Project to be Designed on Passivhaus Principles
Can this be? Two of my favourite concepts in one building? In an urban setting like Brooklyn, yet. Cohousing is based on the idea of "intentional neighbourhoods" where people consciously commit to living as a community. Or as Meaghan wrote in our first
