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Peacock That Left Zoo for 5th Avenue Flies Home

5:11 pm in animals, birds, new york city, Travel & Nature by TreeHugger

central-park-zoo-peacock-escape.jpg Photo: Trisha Shears under a Creative Commons license. Public relations-wise, this one is a mixed bag for New York City's Central Park Zoo. On Tuesday, a peacock left the zoo for an apartment on 5th Avenue (meaning the building's window ledge). And while the bird didn't seem too happy with life in the park, it seems it didn't appreciate the Upper East Side much, either. Yesterday morning, the peacock flew back to its home of its own accord....Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Free "Tour de Fashion" Designer Bikes Coming to New York Fashion Week

8:08 am in bicycles, bikes, biking, Fashion & Beauty, new york city by TreeHugger

bowery lane bicycles photo Photo: Bowery Lane Bicycles The Fashion Center is outfitting New York City with "Tour de Fashion," a fleet of thirty bicycles customized by the city's top designers just in time for Fashion Week, September 8 - 15, Thread NY reports; special thanks to participating designer Gretch...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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8 Acres of New York City Community Gardens Deeded to Local Land Trusts

11:20 am in Food & Health, gardening, new york city by TreeHugger

carver community garden photo Carver Community Garden, Harlem, New York. Photo: Mat McDermott Last summer the battle in the New York City community gardens scene was to ensure that the 600-odd community-run green spaces across the City's five boroughs got a fair deal as the regulations governing them got renegotiated. Permanency was the watchword, ensuring that the battles over them that occurred in th...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Sungevity’s Solar Popsicle Truck Promises More than Just a Cool Treat

9:55 am in new york city, solar, solar energy, solar power, solar technology by TreeHugger

sungevity solar ince pop truck photo Photo: Mat McDermott It's a perfect storm for expansion in the solar leasing business which has led the smallest of the big three solar lease providers to march eastward. Sungevity credits high energy costs, especially in some of the Northeastern states, with new found interest. We're moving beyond ethical principles and onto economics. Sungevity is showing consumers that they can cool down on the cheap by pushing popsicles in a biodiesel solar powered ice pop truck, while at the same ti...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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EPA Explains NYC’s Serious Problem With Its Combined Sewage System

1:10 pm in Design & Architecture, epa, new york city, pollution by TreeHugger

via internet design architecture If you've ever wondered how when there are heavy storms New York City's sewer system gets overwhelmed (check out this video of the Gowanus Canal for the stinking graphic details), there's a new EPA report detailing it all for you. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Short Film Shows the Joys of Newly Legalized Beekeeping in NYC (Video)

12:43 pm in bees, Food & Health, movies, new york city by TreeHugger

urban-beekeeping-nyc-video-screenshot.jpg Image via screengrab. Since New York legalized beekeeping within city limits last year, the practice has become more and more popular. On a quest to explore the growing beekeeping movement in New York, filmmakers Adrian Bautista, Martha Glenn and Brooke Tascona made a documentary, simply titled "Urban Beekeeping: NYC." It's a short, simple film that perfectly captures what makes beekeeping so fascinating and satisfying. Watch the video after the jump: ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Embrace Renewables Now, Or Feel the Heat

10:14 am in alternative energy, new york city, renewable energy, solar power, united states by TreeHugger

via internet science tech I've written before that we can't blame climate change for specific weather events, but that shouldn't stop us from worrying. The fact is that heat waves like the one we just experienced are predicted to get ever more common as we continue to pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Bill McKibben has a forceful opinion piece over at The new York Daily News arguing that we have to act now to avoid the worst impact of clim...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Brooklyn’s First Certified Green Chinese Restaurant

9:57 pm in brooklyn, environmental ceritifcations, Food & Health, new york city by TreeHugger

michael and pings restaurant photo Photo: Michael and Ping's Where but in New York City can you find fresh comforting Chinese food sans Styrofoam, in a restaurant rocking green certified status? Perhaps in one of the many more grub-enlightened cities popping up on the TreeHugger map-- but most certainly in my food obsessed 'hood, Brooklyn. When the BF and I found this out, we did what any other responsible couple would do. We made a date night and trudged four hot city avenue bl...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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See New York City’s Herons and Egrets On a Sunset EcoCruise This Summer

5:45 am in birds, eco-travel, new york city by TreeHugger

gabriel-willow-audubon-ecocruise-empire-state-building-photo.jpg Naturalist Gabriel Willow leading a NYC Audubon Sunset Ecocruise photo courtesy of Marija Filipovic The wildlife living in the East River between NYC's bridges is often overlooked. Most people don't realize that New York is an archipelago of islands and that ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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New York City Subway Sees Record Ridership: Why Taking the Train is Awesome

12:47 pm in Business & Politics, new york city, transportation by TreeHugger

new-york-subway-ridership.jpg Photo: Unlisted Sightings via Flickr/CC BY Today, more people are riding New York's subway than at any point since the nation was going to work six days a week in the 1940s. That's awesome. The New York Times has a story today on how the massive increase in weekend ridership is tying records from that era, and putting a strain on an aging, already stressed system in the process. But while the ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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