This weekend, members of the NCA Bioremediation Workgroup met at the interim site of the North Brooklyn Boat Club to launch their first project, a collaboration with our Artist-in-residence Jan Mun known as the Fairy Rings. We passed a fine brisk day down by the creek pasteurizing and then inoculating hay with oyster mushroom spawn to create […]
NCA’s Executive Director Kate Zidar was profiled recently in Grist, as a part of the Change Gang, a series that “profiles people who are leading change on the ground toward a more sustainable society and a greener planet”. “There’s a huge gap between the way the sewer system chronically malfunctions and the public’s perception of that problem […]
In March 2012, Jan Mun became the first Artist in Residence for Newtown Creek Alliance, where she will be using art and science to ignite the imagination and rethink our waterways. She will be working with Newtown Creek Alliance to connect with other local organizations to collaborate and work towards our shared goals. The first […]
From Rosa at GFF: The Greenpoint Film Festival was a great success last year. Now on its second year it has expanded and is open to submissions. Our “expanded” Environmental section is particularly interested in films, video, and footage in general which speaks directly or indirectly to the current environmental issues of our time, and/or this […]
The City has issued an RFP for a pilot “waste-to-energy” facility. Thermal waste-to-energy (WTE) is the cousin of incineration, part pf a broader group of “thermal conversion” technologies such as gasification, pyrolysis, and plasma incinerators that use heat to convert municipal solid waste into a synthetic gas, and then burn it to generate energy. The City’s Phase 3 […]
