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We are now accepting checks to buy oysters. Here’s the deal: around the corner from lies the heavily polluted Gowanus Canal. The industrial landscape of this former tidal creek is surreal in its bleakness – but to us it offers the exciting possibility of a rock bottom wasteland that has nowhere to go but [...] As part of our service in the green renovation of a brownstone Eco Brooklyn looks at the brownstone plot in its entirety. This means we don’t just gut and renovate the interior. We also look at how the interior effects the exterior. As a NY green contractor we look at the whole system, from [...] Here is a great video of sewage overflowing into the Gowanus Canal. Very graphic! I have been a member of the Gowanus Dregders Canoe club for years and after seeing this video admit that perhaps I have been a little too nonchalant about the actual toxic state of the canal. [...] Yesterday I went to a workshop hosted by Expedition Gowanus an “underground” group looking at local and alternative ways (vs. Superfund ways) to remediate our waterways. Expedition Gowanus hosts a series of workshops on DIY sustainability techniques that will culminate in the final design of an off grid, regenerative, floating structure on the Gowanus [...] After conducting our own evaluations and consulting extensively with the many people who have expressed interest in the future of the Gowanus Canal and the surrounding area, we have determined that a Superfund designation is the best path to a cleanup of this heavily contaminated and long neglected urban waterway. These are the words [...] There is a good article on the Gowanus Canal in the NY Times. It gives a pretty accurate overview of the state of affairs of the canal. Basically everyone agrees it is a cesspool. Simply put on one side there are a lot of developers invested in the area who want the city – [...] Here are some great contacts for you to call and voice your opinion on the Superfund Designation of the Gowanus canal. Just call them up and they will take your comment and your zip code. It goes into a spread sheet and becomes part of the debate. It is important to do this since [...] ReclaimedHome.com came by and interviewed Gennaro Brooks-Church at the Brooklyn Green Show House. He talks about the new template for building a Brownstone. Below is the video they took while I did a tour. They also took some cool pictures. Check out their site. They are doing some great stuff. [...] Today’s issue of the NY Daily News mentioned Eco Brooklyn and quoted Gennaro Brooks-Church. They posted the below pic and had this to say about Eco Brooklyn and Gennaro: Here, Gennaro Brooks- Church is renovating his home, on 2nd Street in Brooklyn, here with his 5 and a half year old daughter Saomi [...] Most people have no idea what state the ecology of the world is. They still think it is about saving the wildlife. But they are terribly wrong. The wildlife has already been decimated. The forests, plants and animals are for the most part destroyed. Not some of it but the majority of it. We [...] The ‘debate’ against the Gowanus Superfund designation is clearly a small group of industrial land owners and developers who by their very profession are extremely knowledgeable in how to talk real estate with city hall. Because of this they have a disproportionate say in the Gowanus Superfund matter. Meanwhile the normal citizen, who might [...] I’d rather non disclosure from the EPA than from Toll brothers any day. This is job complex and I don’t expect anyone to know the full consequences right away. What is more important is the reasons behind the actions and Toll Brothers and their cronies have one reason only – money. The EPA has [...] The web site and group called Clean Gowanus Now! has a url of .org, which leads you to think it is a non proffit with community based objectives. But the site and the group are a scam. The group has these following entities behind it: Africa-Israel, U.S.A. (Involved with the Scarano creation at 340 [...] When this whole things started I didn’t know if I was pro or con the Gowanus Superfund designation. I now know that my uncertainty was due to very well funded PR information that almost managed to pull me away from my common sense that immediately thought a superfund designation for Gowanus would be [...] |
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