Monday March 22, 2010

recreating wilderness with reclaimed materials

This past weekend, I participated in Urban Wilderness Action Day, part of Eyebeam’s ElectroSmog Festival. My friend Kris & her hubby Pascal put together this little video recapping my role in the day.

Check

Categories: action art/craft blog Tags: nyc trees

Monday July 20, 2009

why i’m a treehugger

Loving a giant cedar, Glacier National Park

Trees are ridiculously important to the continuation of the human species.

This is what trees do for us:

Provide us with oxygen to breathe
Filter pollutants from the air
Filter pollutants from water
Create much-needed

Categories: blog environment Tags: deforestation pollution trees

Monday May 18, 2009

my weekend in pictures

Saturday

The bluebell hyacinths were in full bloom at Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Chris Roddick, Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s chief arborist, teaches us how to plant companions for street trees in the Trees NY Citizen Pruner course. This clematis will

Categories: blog outdoors Tags: biking green building green roofs trees

Friday May 15, 2009

milliontrees nyc announces volunteer opps

[Tree and me]
Just the other day as I stared out my apartment window, I thought about how lovely it was that the trees back there have grown closer our building. The lush green branches and perching

Categories: blog events Tags: nyc trees volunteer

Thursday April 23, 2009

go plant a tree!

Did you know that tomorrow is Arbor Day? I hadn’t a clue until I just got this email from MillionTreesNYC. If I didn’t have to work tomorrow, I’d be doing this (boo to work!):

Still looking to

Categories: action blog events holidays Tags: trees volunteer

Monday April 20, 2009

what do you know for sure?

by Bob Hicok

Some people, told of witness trees,pause in chopping a carrotor loosening a lug nut and ask,witness to what? So while saladis made, or getting from A to Bis repaired, these peoplelisten to the storyof

Categories: art/craft blog Tags: trees

Sunday April 19, 2009

great scott, some good environmental advertising!

Brought to you by Greenpeace

After watching this I decided to take a look at Kimberley Clark’s website to see if they’ve done any cleaning up with regard to their environmental image.

It looks like they’re greening up

Categories: blog environment home Tags: deforestation trees

Thursday April 16, 2009

celebrate earth day with peaceful valley

Attention conscious consumers: Shop at Peaceful Valley between now and April 25th and you’ll be doing something good for your health (and the planet). For Earth Day, this eco-friendly e-tailer will plant 10 trees in your

Categories: blog holidays Tags: earth day organic shopping trees

Wednesday March 4, 2009

great green events in bklyn

After the recent snowstorm that blanketed the city, I’m really feeling the itch of Spring. It’ll soon be time to get outside and enjoy the budding trees, the blooming flowers, the [ah-choo] pollinating plants.
Here are some

Categories: blog events Tags: brooklyn/nyc gardens green jobs nyc trees

Sunday February 1, 2009

what every tree wants

Sun, air, water, soil. It seems so simple, right? Not so for a street tree in the big city. Trees here in NYC can have it pretty rough. But we need them. They clean our air

Categories: blog environment Tags: nyc trees