Mycoremediation and Medicinal Mushrooms with Tradd Cotter Saturday, July 30 7 to 9pm North Brooklyn Boat Club 51 Ash Street Brooklyn, NY 11222 Mushrooms can have many positive effects on human and environmental health. Mycoremediation increases soil health by filtering contaminants, hyperaccumulating heavy metals, or breaking complex toxins down into more fundamental chemistry so that […]
Please join NCA in helping to cleanup and improve two shoreline sites this July. At both sites volunteers can assist with tasks like garbage pickup, weed removal, planting and path making. Gloves will be provided, please dress accordingly. Sunday July 17th North Henry Street 1 to 5pm 540 Kingsland Avenue Greenpoint, Brooklyn See Map Here. […]
NCA is excited to continue work on the Greenpoint Bioremediation Project (gBP) in 2016. Bioremediation in practice is the deliberate use of plants and microorganisms to restore a healthier soil ecology, and safely break down toxins in surface soil by exploiting the naturally occurring metabolic pathways of microbes. Working with the newly formed NYC Urban Soils Institute […]
Dear Friends and Supporters of NCA, As 2016 approaches, we take some time to look back at the past year and NCA’s work to reveal, restore and revitalize Newtown Creek. In 2015 this included hands-on efforts to improve environmental conditions, such as our continued restoration work at the Plank Road site in Maspeth (photo 1), […]