Posted by Eric Goldstein in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment
One of the more exciting educational reforms in New York City and around the nation in recent years has been the creation of new schools whose missions include environmental learning. In a perceptive look at this trend the other day,...
Posted by Eric Goldstein in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment
You'd have thought that Derek Jeter and Andy Pettitte were right there, distributing autographed World Series photos. But no -- the big crowd outside of Stuyvesant High School Tuesday night was there for less glamorous but more weighty reasons. They...
Posted by Eric Goldstein in Environmental Justice , Green Enterprise , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
Thirty-nine years ago this week, hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers poured into the streets of Manhattan to demand clean air, safe water and environmental protection in every sphere of city life. Similar events took place across the nation, as...
Posted by Eric Goldstein in Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
For those of use who can remember it, Earth Day 1970 in New York was every much as watershed an event here as it was elsewhere in the country. Thirty-eight years ago this week, tens of thousands of New Yorkers...
