REDUCE/REUSE/REEXAMINE RESOURCE LIST


RECYCLING INFORMATION

New York City
Department of Sanitation, New York City
New York City Recycles
This site provides information on what to recycle in your home, office, or institution as well as general information on composting and waste prevention.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dos/html/bw_home/index.html

Tire Disposal Program
Information on how and where to dispose of automobile tires, which are then converted to electricity.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dos/html/tires.html

Waste Match
NYC’s materials exchange and solid waste reduction program. They help clients reduce the waste disposal costs, obtain raw materials for free. The material exchange program is a free service that matches generators of valuable commercial waste and surplus goods with organizations that can reuse them. Waste producers sell what they once paid to throw away; re-users obtain materials for free or at low prices.
http://www.wastematch.org/index.htm


Educational, Arts, and Community Resources

New York City    

Bronx Council on Environmental Quality
The community council sponsors local symposia, tree plantings, restoration activities, and beach clean-ups, and other events that promote involvement and awareness about intelligent land use, waste management programs that reduce pollution, and conservation.
http://www.bceq.net

The Bronx River Alliance
The alliance manages the Bronx River Corridor along with the City of NY Parks and Recreation Dept., and works to protect, improve and restore the corridor and greenway for the benefit of the community through which it flows.  This website is also a resource for information on the natural and social history of the Bronx River corridor and the plants and animals that inhabit it.
http://www.bronxriver.org

The Brooklyn Botanical Garden
The Garden offers educational programming for adults, teachers, children and families. In the Children’s Adventure Garden, there are biology classes for kids in the Summer Science Adventure series, seed planting classes for little ones, City Farmers classes and multicultural and ecological explorations for older ones.  Brooklyn Greenbridge is a community horticultural program that shares the resources of BBG (like composting programs) with the surrounding neighborhoods.
http://www.bbg.org

Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment
An organization whose mission is to redefine environmental education in New York City through school-based, afterschool, and public programs for children and adults.
http://www.bcue.org

Earthpledge
This organization seeks to identify and promote innovative techniques and technologies that restore the balance between human and natural systems. Check out the website to learn more about their New York based Green Roofs, Waste=Fuel, and Farm to Table initiatives.
http://www.earthpledge.org

Green Apple Map
Lo-Map: Lower Manhattan Green Map
These are both local projects of the Green Map System an eco-cultural organization based in NYC and active in 135 urban environments around the world.
http://www.greenapplemap.org/
http://www.greenmap.org/lomap/index.html
http://www.greenatlas.org

The New York Botanical Garden
In addition to the visitor’s grounds, the Garden offers extensive continuing education programs to adults, from summer intensives in horticulture therapy, landscape design, and Botanical Art and Illustration to workshops in using art-based techniques to explore the scientific dimensions of plants. Is also the home of the International Plant Science Center.
http://www.nybg.org

Orion Society
Orion Society’s mission is to inform, inspire, and engage individuals and grassroots organizations in becoming a significant cultural force for healing nature and the community.  The website provides further information on the Society’s magazine, books, and community initiatives.
http://www.orionsociety.org

Renewable Brooklyn
A collective of artists, educators, environmentalists and professionals dedicated to creating a more ecologically healthy way of living
http://www.renewablebrooklyn.com

Rocking the Boat
A boat building and environmental education program for students in the SW Bronx.
http://www.rockingtheboat.org

Outside New York City

Arts and the Environment

Community Arts Network (CAN)
An online resource on that works to promote dialogue and research within the field of community-based art.
http://www.communityarts.net

ecoartspace
A non-profit organization working with both individuals and organizations who use art as a tool for taking action on environmental issues.
http://www.ecoartspace.org

Greenmuseum.org
An online museum with information on ecological and environmental artists, exhibitions, events, links and resources.
http://greenmuseum.org

PRODUCTS AND MATERIALS

Materials for the Arts
Created by the Department of Cultural Affairs, this program provides non-profit organizations with free art materials that have been collected from a host of donors.
http://www.mfta.org/home.php

Online Publications

Land Views: Online Journal of Landscape, Art & Design
http://www.landviews.org

Metropolis Magazine
http://www.metropolismag.com

”Sustainable Metropolis” section
A resource for information and ideas on sustainable design.
http://www.metropolismag.com/

Fuad-Luke, Alastair. The Eco-design Handbook: A Complete Sourcebook for the Home and Office. London: Thames and Hudson Ltd., 2002.