New York’s Great White Way Goes Green
NEW YORK, New York, December 1, 2008 (ENS) – The millions of lights on theater marquees and billboard advertisements that illuminate The Great White Way are being replaced by energy-saving bulbs under the new Broadway Goes Green initiative. With song and dance by green characters now playing in Broadway shows, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and members [...]
Read More »NBC Universal Teams With New York City to Recycle E-Waste
NEW YORK, New York, November 13, 2008 (ENS) – Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Lauren Zalaznick, president of “Green is Universal,” NBC Universal’s company-wide environmental initiative, Wednesday announced Green Screens, an electronics recycling drive taking place throughout the five boroughs this weekend to mark America Recycles Day November 15. From 8:00 am through 2:00 pm on [...]
Read More »Blue and Green Recycling Bins Bloom Across New York City
NEW YORK, New York, October 27, 2008 (ENS) – In New York City, green is for newspapers and magazines, and blue is for bottles and cans. Starting today, a total of 105 new blue and green recycling bins will be positioned around the city so fewer recyclables will be tossed into street corner litter baskets. [...]
Read More »Demolition Opens New York’s Governor’s Island for Public Park
NEW YORK, New York, October 13, 2008 (ENS) – New York City officials Friday began opening up the southern end of Governor’s Island in New York Harbor with the demolition of 10 military buildings that were not built to city building code standards. The demolition of the three-story buildings, built in 1988 as housing for [...]
Read More »New York City Asks Public Input on Rainwater Control
NEW YORK, New York, October 6, 2008 (ENS) – The autumn rains will soon flow down the streets of New York City, and as they do, city officials are asking for public input on how to capture more of the stormwater before it overflows the city’s sewer system, causes flooding and pollutes waterways. A plan [...]
Read More »Bloomberg: New York Short-Changed on Terrorism Prevention Funds
NEW YORK, New York – “The federal government needs to do more to help us protect our city,” New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg told the first public hearing of the nine-member Congressional Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism Wednesday in New York. “I’m glad to see that Congress has [...]
Read More »Many New York 9/11 Workers, Residents Still Sick
NEW YORK, New York, September 4, 2008 (ENS) – Nearly seven years after the terrorist attacks that demolished the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, many people exposed to the dust, smoke and chemical fumes released into the environment by the airplane strikes on the twin towers continue to experience illnesses. Rescue and recovery [...]
Read More »U.S. National Clean Energy Summit Generates Fresh Ideas
LAS VEGAS, Nevada, August 20, 2008 (ENS) – Windfarms offshore of New York City, wind turbines on top of the city’s bridges and skyscrapers, and the generation of tidal power, solar power and geothermal energy are all in Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s vision of New York’s energy future. Speaking at the first annual National Clean Energy [...]
Read More »New Climate Task Force Will Help Secure New York City
NEW YORK, New York, August 13, 2008 (ENS) – The low-lying city of New York – with its complex underground water and sewer systems; electric, gas, and steam production and distribution systems; telecommunication networks and other critical infrastructure – is particularly vulnerable to the rising sea levels and storm surges associated with global warming. To [...]
Read More »Big Apple Goes Car-Free
New York, NY, August 8, 2008 (ENS) – New York City will clear a stretch of clogged Manhattan streets for the next three Saturdays so that bicyclists, runners, walkers and dancers can enjoy a car-free and noise-free experience. Hip-hop star Jay-Z joined Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan yesterday to publicize the pilot [...]
Read More »Shrinking New York City’s Carbon Footprint
NEW YORK, New York, July 11, 2008 (ENS) – St. Mary’s Recreation Center in the Bronx was the first indoor recreation facility to open in New York City in 1951. Now the aging building is about to receive energy-saving retrofits to fix outdated heating and cooling systems, insufficient ventilation, and windows and doors that leak [...]
Read More »New York City Hosts Summit on Public Health and Climate Change
NEW YORK, New York, June 27, 2008 (ENS) – Government officials and policymakers from 30 cities meeting in New York City have spent the past two days considering urban public health issues related to global warming. The “Public Health and Climate Change: The Urban Policy Connection” summit began Thursday at Columbia University, and continued today [...]
Read More »New York Streets Open to Car-Free, Green Tourism in August
NEW YORK, New York, June 17, 2008 (ENS) – On three Saturdays in August, cars will be barred from a route through Manhattan from the Brooklyn Bridge to 72nd Street to give New Yorkers a car-free corridor for exercise and exploration. The experimental New York City program was announced Monday by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and [...]
Read More »‘Together’ Launches U.S. Campaign to Fight Climate Change
NEW YORK, New York, June 6, 2008 (ENS) – On Thursday, in observance of World Environment Day, businesses, U.S. cities nationwide and nonprofit organizations joined with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to launch Together, a consumer engagement campaign on climate change. Together is an initiative of [...]
Read More »Historic $25 Million Gift to Benefit New York Parks, Gardens
NEW YORK, New York, May 23, 2008 (ENS) – Mayor Michael Bloomberg and philanthropist Shelby White today announced that Ms. White’s Leon Levy Foundation is awarding $15 million to The New York Botanical Garden and $10 million to Prospect Park – the largest private donation in city history for the “greening” of New York. The [...]
Read More »Tri-Generation Power Plant a First for New York
NEW YORK, New York, May 15, 1008 (ENS) – New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg today flipped the switch to start the city’s first tri-generation power plant at Co-Op City in the Bronx, which is the result of a $65 million renovation. The plant will use less fuel, cut greenhouse gas emissions and pollutants by 40 [...]
Read More »The Police Pledges $1 Million for MillionTreesNYC
NEW YORK, New York, May 7, 2008 (ENS) – Sting, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland – The Police – Tuesday pledged $1 million to plant trees across New York City. This donation to the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City in support of MillionTreesNYC will be matched by the city. The total of $2 [...]
Read More »Rockefeller and Bloomberg Plant $10 Million in MillionTreesNYC
NEW YORK, New York, April 23, 2008 (ENS) – Mayor Michael Bloomberg and David Rockefeller Tuesday announced a joint Earth Day pledge of $10 million to the MillionTreesNYC initiative to plant trees in public spaces, including New York Housing Authority developments and at city schools. This donation of private funds made to the Mayor’s Fund [...]
Read More »Polluted Willets Point Divides New York City Government
NEW YORK, New York, April 22, 2008 (ENS) – The contaminated Willets Point area of Queens could become New York City’s first green neighborhood, but some of the area’s business owners object, and today they got the backing of about half of the New York City Council. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Friday that [...]
Read More »100 MPG Vehicles Will Race to Share $10 Million Prize
NEW YORK, New York, March 23, 2008 (ENS) – The Automotive X PRIZE Foundation will award at least $10 million in privately funded prizes to teams that can engineer clean, production-capable vehicles that exceed 100 miles per gallon, or its energy equivalent fuel efficiency, and win a cross-country stage race. Officially launched Thursday at the [...]
Read More »Mets’ New Ballpark Covers the Green Bases
NEW YORK, New York, March 13, 2008 (ENS) – Recycled steel beams, concrete made from coal combustion ash, energy and water conservation, stormwater runoff controls – all will play a part in the construction and operation of Citi Field, the New York Mets’ new ballpark in the borough of Queens. The Queens Ballpark Company will [...]
Read More »Poll Finds New Yorkers Worried About Climate Change
NEW YORK, New York, March 6, 2008 (ENS) – A large majority of New York City residents are convinced that global warming is happening now and leaders should do more to address the threat, according to the results of the first survey of New Yorkers’ opinions about climate change. The survey shows that, in line [...]
Read More »New York Will Cut Use of Tropical Hardwoods by 20 Percent
NEW YORK, New York, February 13, 2008 (ENS) – During an address to the UN General Assembly Monday, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a plan to reduce the city’s consumption of tropical hardwoods to benefit the climate. The mayor called tropical deforestation an “ecological calamity – one with huge global warming implications.” Bloomberg was [...]
Read More »Toss Magazines, Catalogs in Recycling Bin, New Yorkers Urged
NEW YORK, New York, January 30, 2008 (ENS) – Getting more New Yorkers to recycle their magazines and catalogs instead of throwing them in the trash is the goal of a new campaign launched today by Mayor Michael Bloomberg. ReMix – Recycling Magazines is Excellent! – is a national public education campaign that has conducted [...]
Read More »New Yorkers Recycle Christmas Trees Into Wood Chip Mulch
NEW YORK, New York, January 3, 2007 (ENS) – Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Department of Parks and Recreation Commissioner Adrian Benepe today fed branches from the giant Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center into a chipper, converting them to mulch. The officials crafted the occasion to announce the 12th annual MulchFest, a citywide event where New [...]
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