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Archive - 2011
GrowNYC and DNAinfo.com Grant Free Recycling Program
Submitted on May 25, 2011 - 02:00 by admin
GrowNYC is teaming up with DNAinfo.com, a local digital news service, to award one lucky Manhattan school with a Recycling Champions Program. GrowNYC will provide the winning school with staff and student recycling workshops, a school-wide environmental event and technical assistance to improve the schools recycling program. The K-12 public school with the most votes wins. The contest ends June 30 and the program will begin in September – enter the school contest and vote now. Good luck!
GrowNYC’s Recycling Champions Program works hands-on with multiple schools across NYC to develop model, lasting school recycling programs. By working directly with faculty, administration, students, and custodians in a school, Recycling Champions aims to create best practice guides, resources, and tools that will be made available to every school in NYC. During its first year, Recycling Champions outreached to 8,013 students and 643 classroom teachers.
Be the E: |e| socials & |e| teach-in
Submitted on March 24, 2011 - 11:26 by admin|e|teach-in
sustainability starts in our classrooms
be the change: connect, share, dream, inspire
pledge: teach about the environment
pick a theme:
make it real: speakers, field trips, films, service learning, greenups/cleanups, mock trials, PSAs, read alouds, webquests, assemblies, poetry slams, launch a project, partner with non-profits
national enviro education week, April 10-16
do it big, start small
RSVP on Facebook to share what you’re doing during enviro education week!
Partners: Earth Day New York, Styrofoam Out of Schools, Green Schools Alliance, Solar One
GrowNYC's Robert Lock Helps Schools Recycle
Submitted on February 13, 2011 - 16:20 by Nathaniel Page
GREEN GRADES - NYC Schools Recycle! from GrowNYC on Vimeo.
Last summer, GrowNYC hired Robert Lock as a school recycling coordinator.
Since September, when Lock's "Recycling Champions" program began, he has visited 17 schools in all five boroughs. The charitible giving wing of Coca Cola company funds his activities.
Lock is especially focused on cafeterias, said GrowNYC's assistant director, Julie Walsh, where he tries to implement the recycling of beverage containers and the composting of food waste. In classrooms, he begins by focusing on paper recycling.
NYC’s Departments of Sanitation and Education both require schools to recycle, and the DOE aims to double recycling in schools by next year, which may be difficult to track because they have no waste auditing system for schools in place.
The Department of Sanitation does not pick up food waste, but Walsh said that schools with gardens have started implementing their own composting programs. The Brooklyn New School has one of the most ambitious school food waste worm composting systems in NYC.
On the Department of Sanitation's website, educators can order free signage related to recycling or request a visit by Department of Sanitation staff to go over recycling proceedures with custodians.
You can reach Robert Lock at rlock@grownyc.org or 212-676-2081.
Educating Tomorrow Wins a Design Team
Submitted on February 4, 2011 - 13:29 by Nathaniel Page
Educating Tomorrow is receiving an image makeover, courtesy of desigNYC, Language Dept., and Rubenstein Technology Group.
DesigNYC finds free design services for organizations working to green the city and improve public health. Last year, their matchmaking resulted in designs for a 100-block ecological corridor on northern Broadway, for a 31,000-square-foot landscape garden in the Bronx, and for the restoration of the Fireboat House, home of the Lower East Side Ecology Center.
Educating Tomorrow asked to be considered for desigNYC’s second annual round of awards last November. They were paired with Language Department, a Manhattan branding firm with sophisticated tastes, and Rubenstein Technology Group, a web developer in Brooklyn. Other clients of the former firm include Kleenex and The Economist; of the latter, British American Tobacco and Electrolux.
Over the course of 2011, Language Department will help Educating Tomorrow define itself, as they did Trace Furniture, for whom they developed an understated, engraved logo with an austere, Zen look. Any such scheme would improve ten- or twenty-fold Educating Tomorrow’s current green and blue rectangle look.
Meanwhile, Rubenstein will rebuild the Educating Tomorrow website to form a hub for environmental educators. Through the new site, Educating Tomorrow hopes to provide forums, blogs, an electronic newsletter and "green maps." Educators will be better able to share field trip ideas, speakers, grant opportunities, internships, and curriculum. The mapping application will track green school initiatives city wide-- recycling programs, school gardens, green roofs and environmental courses and clubs.
Among desigNYC’s other collaborations this year: designs for a complex of greenhouses at a community garden in Cypress Hills, and a Caribbean plaza in Crown Heights.