Posted by Scott Dodd in Living Sustainably
Reason No. 137 that I love commuting by bike in New York City: I get to watch baby hawks go to flight school. Last year, I was fascinated and then heartbroken by a pair of red-tail hawks that built a...continued→
Posted by Scott Dodd in Living Sustainably
New York magazine featured a great story last week on school overcrowding in Manhattan. What struck me -- aside from concerns about how my own kid might fare -- was this passage about the city's failure to anticipate that New...continued→
Posted by Scott Dodd in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Last spring, I found myself entranced by a pair of red-tail hawks building a nest in Riverside Park, just a few blocks from my apartment in New York City. Unfortunately, despite the efforts of their parents and the best wishes...continued→
Posted by Scott Dodd in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment
Where does your drinking water come from?Natural historian Sidney Horenstein has been asking that question around New York City for decades. The answer he always gets is: "From the faucet."This Sunday, however, is World Water Day, an event created by...continued→
Posted by Scott Dodd in Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
Sometimes in New York, you get surrounded by steel and glass and brick and brownstone and it's easy to forgot that you live on an island -- and not a particularly big island at that.Then it pours for one afternoon...continued→
Posted by Scott Dodd in Living Sustainably
Last summer, I wrote about the NYPD officer who knocked a biker to the ground during a Critical Mass ride in Times Square -- and got caught in the act. If you haven't seen the stunning and disturbing video, here...continued→
Posted by Scott Dodd in Curbing Pollution , Solving Global Warming
Crossing the Triborough Bridge last night on the way home from LaGuardia airport, I smiled as my cab passed under a giant banner trumpeting today's renaming of the bridge in honor of Robert F. Kennedy. RFK is one of my...continued→
Posted by Scott Dodd in Solving Global Warming
It all starts with a basket of coal.That's one of the first things you see when you walk into the American Museum of Natural History's ambitious new exhibition on global warming. Climate Change: The Threat to Life and a New...continued→
Posted by Scott Dodd in Living Sustainably
The New York City Department of Transportation announced last week that bike commuting jumped 35 percent in the city over the past year. That's a lot of new bikers on the streets, and I'm proud to be one of them....continued→
Posted by Scott Dodd in Living Sustainably
New York City wants to double bike commuting by 2015 and is working to make the city more bike friendly. That means it needs more bike parking. Activists are pushing for city rules that would make commercial landlords allow their...continued→
