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Rockaway Resilience Network Activities

Sat, 2014-01-11 14:26 — mdmcdonald

The Rockaway Resilience Network has engaged a full set of actvities for 2014 to address the Rockaways' mission critical gaps and to move the community toward sustainability.  

 

For more information, go to:  http://rockaway.newyork.resiliencesystem.org

 

For those seeking to actively help the Rockaways improve its resilience and sustainability, please consider coming to one of the upcoming Rockaway Resilience Roundtable meetings, or help with the Rockaways' neighborhood resilience assessments.

 

 

Mike

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Army Corps Restores Marsh Islands in Jamaica Bay N.Y. Posted 9/13/2012

Thu, 2013-12-05 09:23 — debbiefook

By Vince Elias
New York District Public Affairs

It is estimated that approximately 1,400 acres of tidal salt marsh have been lost from the marsh islands in Jamaica Bay, New York since 1924, with the system wide rate of loss rapidly increasing in recent years. From 1994 and 1999, an estimated 220 acres of salt marsh were lost at a rate of 47 acres per year.

With the Manhattan skyline less than 10 miles to the north, the eight by four mile marsh islands complex is an integral part of the Bay, which has been targeted for restoration by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, National Park Service (Gateway), New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, New York City Department of Environmental Protection, The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the National Resources Conservation Service and the New York/New Jersey Harbor Estuary Program.

To quell further erosion of the islands, and adding to an already impressive list of habitat restoration projects in the Bay, the Army Corps commenced the placement of sand from the Harbor Deepening Project’s Ambrose Channel contract in August 2012 to restore Black Wall and Rulers Bar marsh islands.

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Tainted Water Testing Lab Flourished Under Lax New York State Regulators

Fri, 2013-11-22 17:21 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Margery Schab

dcbureau.org - by Peter Mantius - November 20, 2013

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Even after armed federal investigators raided its offices in 2010 and the New York Department of Health suspended its state certification in early 2012, Upstate Laboratories Inc. continued its lucrative business of testing water samples from landfills and wastewater treatment plants across the state.

Officially, state environmental regulators will not accept test results from labs the DOH has not certified. The rule is fundamental to the integrity of the program that was designed to protect the state’s waterways from industrial pollution. Yet the state Department of Environmental Conservation kept accepting Upstate’s test results for more than a year after DEC managers learned of the suspension and wrote emails saying the results should be rejected.

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Tim DeChristopher: 'We Have to Be the Carbon Tax'

Fri, 2013-11-08 22:50 — Gina Angiola

By Peter Rugh, Waging Nonviolence,07 November 13 - Reader Supported News

f you walk along Manhattan's West Side Highway, upon the long strip of bike lanes and greenery between the Hudson River and the droning automobiles, you'll come to a fresh patch of pavement that's a stone's throw away from the Pier 51 Playground. You can't tell by the look of it, but beneath the new asphalt hundreds of millions of cubic feet-worth of natural gas are flowing.

While the national climate movement has focused on the transnational Keystone XL pipeline, this tiny site has been the object of a more-than-two-year local battle over the first natural gas pipeline to enter New York City in 40 years. Objecting to the high radon content of the fracked gas and the risk of explosion this pipeline carries, my friends and I waged a campaign of legal challenges and protests against its operator, Spectra Energy Corporation.

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New Yorkers Rally Against Fracking Infrastructure and Flawed LNG Regulations

Fri, 2013-11-01 14:32 — Gina Angiola

Preceding the public hearing hundreds of New Yorkers rallied outside, demanding that the LNG regulations be withdrawn. Photo credit: Frack Action

On Wednesday, Oct. 30, hundreds of New Yorkers from across the state came to Albany to expose Gov. Cuomo (D-NY) and the Department of Environmental Conservation’s (DEC) proposed Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) regulations for what they are: fatally flawed, a danger to public health and our wellbeing and supportive of a massive fracking infrastructure build out.

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Canarsie Community <Light our Way to Recovery> October 29, 2013, Canarsie Park 6:30pm

Thu, 2013-10-17 14:09 — debbiefook

 Light Our Way To Recovery is a candlelight commemorative gathering of the constituents of the Canarsie community, one of the many disaster impacted communities on the Eastern USA coastline. This event is given in remembrance of those persons who lost their lives as a result of Hurricane Sandy; to honor the people who volunteered and who continue to help; to highlight the need for support for Canarsie disaster victims who continue to struggle to rebuild, recover and survive the emotional maelstrom caused by the life changing events of October 29th 2012. 

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DEC Accepting Applications for Environmental Grant

Wed, 2013-10-16 18:34 — Kathy Gilbeaux

       

Press Release - October 15, 2013 

Assemblyman Goldfeder Announces DEC Accepting Applications for Environmental Grant

State Funding Available to Improve Urban Environments & Parks, Especially in Sandy-Damaged Neighborhoods Nearly $500,000 in Grants Will Be Provided to Eligible Applicants, Including Municipalities, Public Benefit Corporations, Public Authorities, School Districts and Not-for-Profit Organizations

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Saturday, October 19, 2013 is Global Frackdown Day - attend an event near you

Tue, 2013-10-08 21:29 — admin

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On Saturday, October 19, 2013, there will be hundreds of events taking place throughout the world to bring to light the dangers of fracking.

See what events are taking place in your area

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Honestly, This Is Way Cooler And More Informative Than Any Earth Day Poster

Sat, 2013-09-14 00:00 — Maeryn Obley

 

Visitors explore a structure build out of 53,780 plastic bottles -- the number thrown away in New York City every hour.

Image: Visitors explore a structure build out of 53,780 plastic bottles -- the number thrown away in New York City every hour.

upworthy.com - Ray Flores

Now this is a hella cool way to frame an environmental message. On New York City’s Governers Island stands a structure large enough to dance in and filled with bright, beautiful light during the day. The good people of Studio KCA created the “Head in the Clouds” pavilion out of 53,780 plastic bottles and jugs — the number of plastic bottles thrown away in New York City in just one hour.

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Urban Resilience in an Era of Climate Change: Global Input for Local Solutions

Thu, 2013-09-12 21:18 — Kathy Gilbeaux

      

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The National Park Service, New York City Department of Environmental Protection, New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, the City University of New York, and Natural Areas Conservancy are pleased to announce the Urban Resilience in an Era of Climate Change: Global Input for Local Solutions symposium at Kingsborough College, Brooklyn on October 17-18, 2013.

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