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Greening Brooklyn from the Ground Up
What role do neighborhood groups play in the global effort to save the environment? What does sustainable living offer to low-income New Yorkers? We asked the experts.
Obama's Urban Policy: Slow Start. Sustainable Finish?
The president's campaign pledge to pay attention to cities got some tough early reviews. But now communities around the country are getting federal help to plan for the future.
Making Plans: What Other Cities Say About Their Futures
Some U.S. cities are guided by comprehensive plans for physical growth and government spending. Do the likes of Portland and Miami have something to teach New York?
Five Boroughs. One City. No Plan.
Is the city's failure to plan a plan for failure?
Got Juice?: Choices Loom After Power Project's Demise
A year after the collapse of a plan for new transmission lines to New York City, questions remain. Was the need for new infrastructure a myth? Or are tougher choices ahead for consumers?
NYC's Fake Grass Gamble: A $300M Mistake?
In 1998, New York City began installing synthetic turf fields in parks and playgrounds, saying the artificial material would be more durable than grass. But a City Limits investigation finds that many turf fields are falling apart, including this one at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.
Tough Love In The Big City
Kids in New York have often had a lot to fear. So how’d we end up afraid of them?
Can Industry Save A Staten Island Marsh?
In the second of our three-part series about environmental worries on Staten Island, we look at the pros and cons of sacrificing marshland to create jobs and a new park.
Reviews: A City on Fire
"New York, like Vietnam, wasn’t so simple, and the fatal flaw in applying a RAND model to New York City’s fires lay in the fact cities are comprised of human beings, and human beings make mistakes."
Asthma In New York: Old News, New Battles
Fights over congestion pricing and the city's sanitation strategy have receded from the headlines. But in North Brooklyn, worry is still in the air.
White House Will Name New Urban Czar
A day after the first White House director of urban affairs moved to HUD, the Obama administration said it will retain the post.
NYC Greener Now Than 3 Years Ago?
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Community Developers Must Help Green NYC
To both reach PlaNYC’s ambitious goals–and to exceed them in those in areas where PlaNYC fell short –community-based organizations must be essential partners.
Feds' Green Could Be Even Greener
Federal weatherization funding can be used to address not only the energy efficiency of buildings but also their financial sustainability, resident health and safety, all while upgrading green skills for workers.
Let's Streamline the Weatherization Process
While the establishment of programs like Green Jobs Green New York has certainly helped scale up programs that use weatherization to attack a set of urban ills, there remains work to be done.
Go Green. Fight Poverty.
Even in poor neighborhoods not home to power plants, waste transfer stations or the other egregious environmental offenders, physical conditions sustain not just ill health, but poverty as well.
Two Sides of the Green Story
The environmental progress New York City—and Brooklyn especially—have made reflects federal legislation and local infrastructure. But it's also been a story of community groups working to make their neighborhoods healthier.
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Recycling in Brooklyn
Recycling rates by Brooklyn community district, in 2005 and 2011, as compiled by the Center for the Study of Brooklyn at Brooklyn College.
Power NY -- The New NY Agenda
This document articulates New York State gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo's energy and power agenda.
