Posted on 26 April 2009. Tags: Earth Day 2009, Grand Central, green energy
Reported by Sergey Kadinsky, Alana Rigal, Ben Fractenberg Collage by Ben Fractenberg Earth Day 2009. New York’s historic Grand Central Terminal hosted a massive Earth Day Festival, taking up three city blocks and the Vanderbilt Gallery inside. 108 organizations participated in this year’s event. An unseasonably high temperature also ensured a strong turnout on the […]
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Posted on 25 April 2009. Tags: chelsea piers, Earth Day, energy, green, renewable energy, windpower
By Valerie Lapinski, Colin Orcutt, Maureen Sullivan, Nicole Turso, and Brian Winkowski New York: The New Windy City? City officials on Thursday honored Chelsea Piers, the country’s biggest sports and entertainment complex, for converting to 100% wind power. Chelsea Piers made the switch in October, making it the biggest business in NYC to use wind […]
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Posted on 24 April 2009. Tags: Compost, Earth Day, green, New York City, Parks and Recreation, PlaNYC, Soil, Tompkins Square Park
By Jim Flood, Jessica Simeone, Michael Preston, and Kate Nocera On a beautiful spring day in Manhattan’s East Village, volunteers came out as part of the three-day Green Apple Festival, a yearly Earth Day event that spans 10 U.S. cities. Mike Lytle, the head gardener at Tompkins Square Park, put teams of volunteers to work […]
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