Pretty Offensive’s Reusable Coffee Cozies Add a Little Snark To Your Morning Caffeine Fix

Pretty Offensive’s Reusable Coffee Cozies Add a Little Snark To Your Morning Caffeine Fix

Morning coffee or tea is essential to many of us for our morning commute. Although we should be bringing along our own reusable thermoses when refueling at the local café, we can still prevent waste, even if using a paper cup! The ubiquitous cardboard sleeves

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PHOTOS: New Yorkers Take to the Streets to Celebrate PARK(ing) Day!

PHOTOS: New Yorkers Take to the Streets to Celebrate PARK(ing) Day!

The temporary public spaces provide a breath of fresh air and much-needed relief from NYC’s crowded streets and sidewalks. This year’s participants ranged from small local business like Pillow Cafe to mega-institutions like Fordham University, with each bringing

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Help Save This Lot and Win It as the Venue For Your Ultimate Summer Barbeque!

Help Save This Lot and Win It as the Venue For Your Ultimate Summer Barbeque!

Domestic Construction design studio recently signed a lease on the abandoned lot next to their Greenpoint space when they heard the grassy knoll was going to be turned into a concrete parking lot.  Using Kickstarter they hope to hold onto their lease, but

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World Trade Center Steel Recycled into Hundreds of Memorials Around the Country

World Trade Center Steel Recycled into Hundreds of Memorials Around the Country

After September 11th, most of the World Trade Center steel was trucked off to New Jersey salvage yards where it was broken down and sent all over the world for reuse. However, over 1,000 pieces of debris were placed in a JFK airport hangar for the Port Authority

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Help Domestic Construction Bring a Design Plot of Art, Urban Farming, and Sustainability to Brooklyn!

Help Domestic Construction Bring a Design Plot of Art, Urban Farming, and Sustainability to Brooklyn!

Trish Andersen and Maureen Walsh of Domestic Construction have combined their creative forces to bring a new community design space to Greenpoint Brooklyn. This recent artistic endeavor “design.plot” aims to blur the boundaries between sustainability, urban design, and food production. The designers plan to deck out the lot with geodesic greenhouses, a viewing hill, a birdhouse village, vertical gardens, vegetable beds, and of course, a “mini-forest world.” With so many dead spaces dotting the Brooklyn landscape, this little ray of green design has the potential to set a precedent for sustainable development and community within the area. If you’re as passionate about positive grassroots change as we are, jump ahead and learn how you can help Domestic Construction raise some funds to make their project a reality – they’re even giving away some sweet prizes on their Kickstarter page!

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3rd Annual Brooklyn Waterfront Epic Ride

3rd Annual Brooklyn Waterfront Epic Ride

Join the Brooklyn Greenway Initiative for the 3rd Annual Brooklyn Waterfront Epic Ride, a 40-mile ride along Brooklyn’s entire waterfront and Jamaica Bay! The route highlights the potential of a completed Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway combined with a completed

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Domestic Construction Sets the Stage at the Natural History Museum with Recycled Shipping Pallets

Domestic Construction Sets the Stage at the Natural History Museum with Recycled Shipping Pallets

Brooklyn’s very own design darlings Trish Anderson and Maureen Walsh of Domestic Construction were commissioned last May to envision a sustainability fundraising event at the Museum of Natural History for a classified client. Their “Applause Award Show” stage and aesthetics scheme transformed cardboard, shipping pallets, newspaper, and plant-life into a tailored setting that honored the deserving activists’ work within the environmental community.

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Seedstock! at the Eagle Street Rooftop Farm

Seedstock! at the Eagle Street Rooftop Farm

Celebrate summer at Seedstock! at the Eagle Street Rooftop Farm in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Featuring The Sharp Lads, My Gay Banjo, Soft Black, Elizabeth Devlin, Franz Nicolay and the Shivers performing live in the “roots” of the Farm–the warehouse studio below the green roof. Doors open at 7pm.

Sales support Eagle Street’s partner in farm-based education, Growing Chefs and the Open Space Institute for the preservation of our rolling hills, clean water and air, and well-farmed spaces. Brooklyn Brewery is providing drinks and …

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Tenth Acre Farms: An Abandoned Brooklyn Basketball Court Transformed into a Lush Green Space

Tenth Acre Farms: An Abandoned Brooklyn Basketball Court Transformed into a Lush Green Space

Tenth Acre Farms was started in 2009 by three guys — Jordan Hall, Bennett Wilson, and Adam Wilson –who work part-time for CollegeHumor.com, all of whom grew up with farming families. The project began as a small backyard garden behind Hall’s apartment in

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Top 5 Urban Farms in New York City

Top 5 Urban Farms in New York City

Brooklyn Grange
Brooklyn Grange is the largest rooftop farm in the country (and possibly the world), spanning some 40,000 square feet atop a former industrial building in Queens. The farm produces everything from beets to beans plus 40 other herbs and vegetables.

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New East River Ferry Service in NYC Starts Today!

New East River Ferry Service in NYC Starts Today!

New York City’s public transportation system is one of the best in the country, if not the world, but the MTA is constantly looking for ways to make it even better and more efficient by adding new and improved elements — like water taxis. NYC officials have

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NYC-Based BrightFarms Wants to Bring Hydroponic Greenhouses to a Grocery Store Near You

NYC-Based BrightFarms Wants to Bring Hydroponic Greenhouses to a Grocery Store Near You

Farmers’ markets are one of the best ways to get fresh and local produce while supporting the local economy, but they’re mostly on the weekends, in parks, and are rarely held during the cold winter months. But what if you could get that same fresh local

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Gotham Greens Rooftop Hydroponic Greenhouse in Brooklyn Begins First Harvest This Month

Gotham Greens Rooftop Hydroponic Greenhouse in Brooklyn Begins First Harvest This Month

With spring in full swing, local fresh produce is available all over the city and Gotham Greens, a new comer to the urban agricultural movement, will have its first harvest this month which will help contribute to a healthier and more sustainable city. Founders

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Green Buildings Sweep the 2011 Brooklyn Building Awards

Green Buildings Sweep the 2011 Brooklyn Building Awards

Winning in the education category, Pratt Institute’s Myrtle Hall is LEED Gold certified, making it the first educational institute in Brooklyn to receive LEED certification. The world renown art school’s new addition uses a solar passive design layout, and

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Brooklyn IKEA Fires Up 1,104 Rooftop Solar Panels

Brooklyn IKEA Fires Up 1,104 Rooftop Solar Panels

IKEA is working hard to green its big box operations. The furniture giant is building a wind farm to power 17 of its Swedish stores, and they’ve pledged to adhere to the Better Cotton Initiative by 2015. Continuing the company’s efforts to run on 100 percent

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Brooklyn’s Broadway Stages Installs the Largest Private Solar Roof in NYC!

Brooklyn’s Broadway Stages Installs the Largest Private Solar Roof in NYC!

Broadway Stages is a film and television facility in Greenpoint and also home to New York City’s largest privately owned 420kW solar roof.

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Fabrica 718 Transforms Retro School Desks into a Bar for Veronica People’s Club in Brooklyn

Fabrica 718 Transforms Retro School Desks into a Bar for Veronica People’s Club in Brooklyn

Refurbished school desks from the 1950s purchased by Heather online serve as the principal element of the design. The trapezoidal solid wood tabletops are arranged side-by-side to form the bartop, while frames and legs were transformed by craftsman David Jesse

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New Brooklyn EMS Station Combines Response Efficiency with Environmental Sustainability

New Brooklyn EMS Station Combines Response Efficiency with Environmental Sustainability

Michielli + Wyetzner Architects has combined elegant contemporary design with emergency response practicality in the design of a new EMS station in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

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Hundreds of Brooklyn Residents Show Support for Controversial Bike Lane

Hundreds of Brooklyn Residents Show Support for Controversial Bike Lane

Supporters of PPW controversial bike lane turn out by the hundreds on Sunday, April 10.

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As NYC Expands Greenways, Another Brooklyn Bike Lane is Under Review

As NYC Expands Greenways, Another Brooklyn Bike Lane is Under Review

Biking in the New York City should be filed under extreme sporting, but NYC’s Department of Transportation (DOT) is attempting to curb the dangers of biking by upping the number of bike lanes and connecting already existing lanes throughout the city. The battle

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Bloomberg Calls for a Greater, Greener NYC Waterfront with Vision 2020

Bloomberg Calls for a Greater, Greener NYC Waterfront with Vision 2020

With Vision 2020, Mayor Bloomberg plans to revitalize and restore New York City’s waterways and shorelines.

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Pierogi Gallery

Pierogi Gallery

Pierogi Gallery is a Williamsburg pioneer, opening its doors in 1994, when the neighborhood had little more than Rosemarie’s Greenpoint Tavern. Still an artist- run gallery, they have monthly solo shows, and are famed for their flat files, an archive of artists’

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Chopin Chemists (Greenpoint)

Chopin Chemists (Greenpoint)

Chopin Chemists can fill your generic prescriptions just like CVS and Duane Reade, but unlike a generic pharmacy, they will offer you a homeopathic or organic remedy first. They have an array of herbal remedies, minerals, flower essences and vitamins as well

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The Greenest Points from Mayor Bloomberg’s State of the City Address

The Greenest Points from Mayor Bloomberg’s State of the City Address

Yesterday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg laid out his vision for New York during the annual State of the City Address. He discussed the cost-cutting goals, economic growth, and the on-going physical transformation, which largely consists of greening our fair city and moving towards a more sustainable future.

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National Grid to Turn Excess Methane from Brooklyn Wastewater Plant into Energy

National Grid to Turn Excess Methane from Brooklyn Wastewater Plant into Energy

National Grid has teamed up with the city to build a gas processing facility that will convert excess methane from the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant into utility-grade natural gas. In other words, they want to turn your farts into fuel and sell it back to you.

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