1547 Signatures
Published by David Vigil on Mar 06, 2009
Category: Environment
Region: United States of America
Target: New York City residents, organizations and elected officials
Web site: http://www.eastnewyorkfarms.org
Background (Preamble):
Question: How can you Plant a Million Trees, keep city parks and green spaces beautiful, and grow healthy food in community gardens and backyards?
Answer: Voice your support for the NYC Compost [...]
Reprint from: COUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT OF NEW YORK CITY
Plants in your garden can suffer greatly during winter exposure from sunscald, windburn, drying-out and heaving of the soil due to freezing and thawing. Therefore, it is important to protect your plants in the fall.
TREES. On days when the temperature is above 40° and it is [...]
Garbage Land – a book by Elizabeth Royte – Little, Brown
In this book you will learn exactly where your garbage goes, from beginning to end. Elizabeth Royte goes on an adventure through garbage; literally. She follows the sanitation men who pick up her trash, she paddles through the Arthur Kill, and tours the largest landfill [...]
We decorate for the holidays, but rather than use an artificial tree, we buy a tree with a root ball. We either plant the tree on our property or donate it. The tree on the left was 4 feet high when we bought if for our Christmas tree 18 years ago. As you can see [...]