Ben Nadler of Kinetic Carnival talks to some of the folks at Surfside Gardens in Coney Island about the future of their community garden as development plans threaten to convert their beautiful garden to low-cost housing.
During Rudy Giuliani’s mayoralty in the 1990s, garden closures were at their highest rates, culminating [...]
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Louise Crawford of Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn interviews Joe Holtz from the Park Slope Food Coop about their upcoming vote regarding the selling of bottled water.
The problem is this: 30 million or so bottles end up in landfills every day, environmental experts say. The vast majority of the [...]
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Anne Pope shows us around the sustainable side of Flatbush. Her tour in includes a stop at a meeting of the Sustainable Flatbush gardening committee, hosted by Flatbush Gardener, Chris Kreussling.
The Gardening Committee has already begun planning for a whole weekend of activities on Arbor Day Weekend (April 25-27); [...]
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