Archive for June, 2008

My Chat with the Nets

June 17, 2008

They are a Gas Pushing, Green Company Brought to you by the Nets, A “Green” Company I’m not a big tv watcher. But every once in a while, I am known to get into it. So the other night while I was watching some tube, I heard an extremely obnoxious infomercial type voice saying, “Its [...]

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Rude Awakening

June 16, 2008
Rude Awakening

Don’t hit the Snooze Button! No greenwashing here please. In 7th grade, I used to wake my big brother up by walking into his room and screaming as loud as I could. My mother asked that I stop doing that when she discovered my methods, as it was potentially devastating to the person waking up [...]

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Cities Respond to Climate Change

June 12, 2008
Cities Respond to Climate Change

At the New School Lots of talk of urbanization. Lots of talk of climate change. We need more talk about the two together. Solar 1 does their part in talking about the need for dealing with our botched grid and the ability of photovoltaics to help. And of course Community Energy’s partnership with Con Ed [...]

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Pools Please!

June 10, 2008
Pools Please!

Not Until June 27th NYC public pools might need to rethink opening day in a warming world. At this point, all 54 outdoor public pools open on the same day, which is 2.5 long hot weeks away. But when they do open, I am certainly planning on visiting the floating pool which will be posting [...]

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Governors Island Kick Off Tomorrow!

June 6, 2008

It is Going to be Hot…Literally Join CISC as we bring in the real start to our summer at Governors Island for the 3rd annual Science, Art Exhibition and Lecture Series. First up is Laura Saegert-Wenkel, Project Manager for the CUNY Sustainability Project. Ms. Saegert-Wenkel’s talk will be focussed on the larger vision for CUNY’s [...]

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