Welcome to 10 new Citizen Action Projects
Antonia Bowring
Dear Citizen Action Leaders:
I wanted to let you know that OSI’s Board of Trustees approved the addition of 10 new projects to the Citizen Action program at our board meeting last week. Over the next couple of weeks, these new groups will all be added to our google group, and you will be able to read about them on our website (where you also will find links to their websites). I hope we are able to build the connections and relations between the Citizen Action projects since so many of you are working in common areas
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Best wishes,
Antonia
· Ananda Harvest – Monroe, NY. Its mission is to create a better way of life through experiencing, educating, cultivating and creating community around agriculture.
· Citizens Emergency Committee – NYC. The groups three goals are to re-establish the independence of the NYC landmark preservation commissioners; ensure fairness in the landmark process; and to secure appropriate resources for the landmarks preservation commission staff.
· Farming Concrete – NYC. Its mission is to enable communities to do research and cartography of community gardening, urban agriculture, food systems, and other topics related to long-term urban environmental sustainability.
· Friends of Gulick Park – Manhattan. It aims to create a greener, livelier, and safer Luther Gulick Park and Playground in Manhattan’s lower east side.
· Green Apple Kids. NYC. A child-centered enrichment program that promotes environmental consciousness through cultivating lifelong, positive attitudes and behaviors towards the natural world.
· Growing Chefs – Brooklyn. Focused on children and young adults, it connects people to food: from the soil to the kitchen and from the field to the fork.
· New York Wild Film Festival – NYC. WILD’s mission is to inspire appreciation for the planet and concern for its protection and it aims to serve as a catalyst for action in critical environmental issues. WILD wants to be the first annual documentary film festival in New York to assemble the best films about the wild world around us.
· Peoples Garden NYC – Its mission is to create vegetable gardens in high profile places, which will then be tended to by students.
· Public Sustainability Group - NYC. The group’s goal is to encourage NYC public school students to undertake environmental stewardship, increase biodiversity in the ecosystem, and improve their own nutrition.
· Rondout Growers Association (Educational Project), Rondout Valley. An educational branch of a growers association. Its charitable and educational activities incluce farm to table events, food donations to local food pantries, and work with schools to education children about food and farming.
Michael Block
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Marielle Anzelone
The Huffington Post just posted my op-ed with advice for Ed Norton, the new UN Biodiversity Ambassador
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marielle-anzelone/what-edward-norton-should_b_657076.html
If you like it, please share on Facebook, Twitter, etc. We want to get the attention of NYC officials to draft legislation to protect biodiversity in the 5 boroughs! Thanks in advance!
All the best,
Marielle
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