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Earth Pledge Joins Mayor Bloomberg to Foster a More Sustainable
New York
Join
Earth Pledge at Renewable Brooklyn
Find Sanctuary at the 2003 International Designer Showhouse
A Delicious, Sustainable Evening with Chef Michael Romano
Help Us Achieve a Greener Gotham!
Explore the
Best Green Buildings in NYC
Greening Ground Zero
Let Nature Do the Work
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Earth
Pledge Joins Mayor Bloomberg to Foster a More Sustainable New York
On September 24th, Mayor Bloomberg announced that New York City will
hold a sustainable building design competition in conjunction with
U.S. EPA and NYC DEP in partnership with Earth Pledge and others.
“Sustainable development is crucial to New York City’s
future,” said Mayor Bloomberg at the announcement. “Creating
new buildings, retrofitting old ones to be more energy efficient and
incorporating new technologies that are less expensive and environmentally
friendly is vital for the continued growth of our City … I am
proud to be joining the EPA, AIA, Earth Pledge, and the Museum of
the City of New York in this important endeavor.”
Earth Pledge is pleased to be a part of this historic competition
to promote sustainable design and development in New York City.
Read the full press release here.
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Earth Pledge at Renewable Brooklyn
On October 4th, Renewable Brooklyn, a collective of artists, educators,
and environmentalists, will host an exciting fundraising concert,
art show, and sustainable design and technology exhibition in Prospect
Park.
Proceeds from the event will benefit Earth Pledge, Brooklyn Center
for the Urban Environment, Williamsburg/Greenpoint Waterfront Task
Force, and Just Food.
Earth Pledge will be exhibiting a small-scale anaerobic digestor
and a tabletop green roof model sponsored by American Hydrotech
alongside other exhibitors showing everything from a solar powered
tricycle to photovoltaic lighting systems.
Come enjoy an afternoon of music from bands and DJs performing in
an arena powered by off-set wind power. Brooklyn Brewery will preview
their first batch of delicious organic beer, which will be served
in biodegradable cups made from corn. The accompanying art exhibit
will feature an eclectic group of prominent urban artists presenting
paintings, sculptures and installations using salvaged, recycled,
and reconstructed materials.
Please join us! For more information and ticket sales visit Renewable
Brooklyn.
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Find
Sanctuary at the 2003 International Designer Showhouse
Landscape
designer Richard Heller, working in conjunction with Earth Pledge
and GreenTech, has created "Sanctuary," a vibrant green
roof garden display, for the prestigious International Designer
Showhouse of the American Hospital of Paris Foundation.
The show, which is open to the public beginning October 16th,
features spectacular interiors and gardens from over thirty internationally
respected designers, artisans, and decorative painters.
Heller’s "Sanctuary," built using GreenTech’s
modular roof garden system, illustrates how green roofs can be
beautiful, vibrant spaces that benefit the environment and pay
financial dividends in the process.
For more information please call 212-838-0157.
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A
Delicious, Sustainable Evening with Chef Michael Romano
Join us on November 10th for an Earth Pledge Sustainable Cuisine
Cooking Class held at Institute of Culinary Education (ICE) led
by Michael Romano, award-winning chef of Union Square Cafe and
co-author of The Union Square Cafe Cookbook and Second
Helpings from Union Square Cafe. Chef Romano is known for
using seasonal produce and supporting local farmers and regional
products to create the signature dishes that have made Union Square
Café one of New York City’s most popular restaurants
for 15 years.
Chef Romano will guide the class through hands-on preparation
of some of his favorite dishes, all based on sustainable, seasonal,
local products. The menu will include Chicken Liver Crostini;
Pumpkin Risotto; Roast Rack of Lamb; Potato-Jerusalem Artichoke
Gratin; and Ginger-Walnut Tart with Pineapple Moscato Zabaglione.
Your menu will be matched with the critically acclaimed wines
of the Castello di Borghese Vineyard and Winery on Long Island's
North Fork.
Proceeds from this class will benefit Earth Pledge’s Farm
To Table Initiative, dedicated to connecting communities to
fresh, healthy, and locally grown products.
For more information or to register for the class click
here.
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Help
Us Achieve a Greener Gotham!
Visit GreeningGotham.org
on October 15th for the “vision launch” of Earth Pledge's
newest web project.
The site presents Earth Pledge’s vision for improving the
urban environment by bringing to life a barren and abandoned landscape
- New York City's rooftops. GreeningGotham.org will allow New
Yorkers to share in that vision, learn about the urgent environmental
problems that face NYC and how green roofs can solve them.
A wide range of community groups, public figures, and businesses
have joined with Earth Pledge in committing to realize this vision.
Visit the website, sign the vision statement, join our mailing
list, and submit feedback about what tools you would like to see
on the site to help you bring green roofs to your community.
In January of 2004, we will launch the second phase of GreeningGotham.org,
which will include the “Green Roof Toolbox” - a comprehensive
step-by-step “How-to Guide" for green roof construction,
as well as NYC green roof case studies, and a list of building
and design professionals in New York City qualified to help complete
a green roof. A regularly updated news section will let New Yorkers
track the progress of green roof work in the city – new
green roof projects, public events, and public policy developments.
Bringing the city’s rooftops to life will dramatically enhance
New York's vibrant network of parks, community gardens and greened
streets to fulfill a vision of a more sustainable city, a greened
Gotham.
Explore
the Best Green Buildings in NYC
Visit green buildings, from skyscrapers to townhouses, public housing
projects to community gardens, as part of the 2003 Green Buildings
Open House sponsored by GreenHomeNYC and the Northeast Sustainable
Energy Association. Experience first-hand some innovative, beautiful
approaches that conserve resources and energy while creating healthier,
more environmentally friendly buildings and interiors.
Of course, Earth Pledge’s eco-friendly offices are on the
tour. Visit our 1902 Georgian townhouse renovated to showcase sustainable
materials, products, and technologies. The visit includes a tour
of our green roof garden, which includes heirloom vegetables and
herbs and a “roof meadow” of sedums, as well as a tour
through the office space equipped with compact fluorescents, low-VOC
paint, recycled floor coverings, and occupancy-sensing lighting.
Other buildings on the tour include Kiss & Cathcart Architect
offices, Queens Botanical Garden, Stillwell Avenue Subway Station,
Brewery Ice House live/work lofts, and 20 River Terrace, the country’s
first “green” high-rise apartment building that includes
a large rooftop garden.
For more information or to sign up for tours visit Green
Home NYC.
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Greening
Ground Zero
Imagine a Lower Manhattan ecosystem connected by a network
of parks, gardens, and green roofs, surrounding energy-efficient,
solar powered multi-use high-rise buildings.
On September 4th, Green Ground Zero, a New York City-based not-for-profit
organization dedicated to promoting sustainable development in Lower
Manhattan, formally announced the launch of their sustainable design
competition. The event, held at Pace University, featured William
McDonough, visionary green architect and Cradle to Cradle author,
as the keynote speaker.
A showcase for possible sustainable urban design around the World
Trade Center site, the competition invites participants to articulate
a green vision for downtown that could impact the ecology, health
and quality of life of the area.
Green Ground Zero, a project of New York Climate Rescue, has partnered
with Earth Pledge, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Green
House Network, and Pop Sustainability to promote sustainable thinking
in the continuing redevelopment of Lower Manhattan.
Leslie Hoffman, Earth Pledge's Executive Director, will serve on
the design selection committee headed by architect Randy Croxton.
For more information on the competition, please visit Green
Ground Zero.
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Let
Nature Do the Work
Engineers, planners, builders, landscape architects, watershed
managers, and government officials can learn new alternatives for
sustainable stormwater management on October 17th at Let Nature
Do the Work, a seminar sponsored by Westchester County Department
of Parks, Recreation and Conservation.
Leslie Hoffman, Earth Pledge’s Executive Director, will be
speaking about the design and horticultural considerations in building
a green roof, which can ameliorate stormwater overflow problems
because of the natural water retention properties of the soil and
vegetation.
The day-long seminar focuses on Low Impact Development (LID) technologies,
such as green roofs, which balance the needs of economic development
and healthy community growth with environmental protection.
More information as well as registration forms can be found here.
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