Occupy Everything 2012

This election year is so pregnant with possibility as the OCCUPY movement puts pressure on Democrats and Republicans to walk the walk and talk the talk. Very exciting! Very hopeful!

"Now we have to tell him what we want him to do."

-Angela Davis 2008 following the election of the first U. S. president of color

test123

Today I read about a few water-related green planning things in the paper that seemed interesting:

http://www.riverpool.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newtown_Creek

2008, the year of community supported agriculture

ok...I went to a book discussion of green economies at bluestockings yesterday and got really psyched
about CSA's.

roxbury farms
cascade farms

The eco-friendly biznat

Tonight I went to the greenhomenyc forum on green interior design presented by (Josh Dorfman?)"the lazy environmentalist". Here's a rundown of the companies he mentioned:

inc magazine
vivavi
loll design
cambium studio
eco fabulous
kddo
scrapile
rhubarb
delano
designtex
iannone sanderson
kirea usa
cradle to cradle
anna sora
peter danko
oop organic
american clay
icestone
the octagon
aqus
toto
solatube
yolo colorhouse
orbo marmoleum click
caroma
latitude insulation

Dude, you're blocking the stairs.

So...the picture of the stairwell captioned with something about occupying a middle ground made me think of the guy I found passed out in the stairwell.

"Was this a protest?", I wonder.

recycling in nyc

So I am starting to investigate recycling and reusing matereials in NYC.

Here's some google results:

recycle this

nyc.gov

nrdc

tree hugger

Noam Chomsky, Language and Politics (98-99)

"[T]here is a middle ground which I would like to occupy, and I think people are going to have to try to find ways to occupy: namely to try to keep up a serious commitment to intellectual values and intellectual ans scientific problems that really concern you and yet at the sme time make a serious and one hopes useful contribution to the enormous extra-scientific questions. Commitment to work on the problems of racism, oppression, imperialism and so on, is in the United States and absolute necessity. Now exactly how one can maintain that sort of schitzophrenic existence I am not sure; it is very difficult. It's not only a matter of too much demand on one's time, but also a high degree of ongoing personal conflict about where your next outburst of energy should go. And unless people somehow resolve the problem I think the future is rather dim. If they do resolve it I think it might be rather hopeful."
phote taken with my lovely mini dv camera