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Bryan Reisberg spends one day a week taking shelter dogs out of their kennels, slipping them in a “adopt me” backpack and carrying them around New York.

His goal is to help people see shelter dogs the way he does: curious, sweet and full of potential. https://wapo.st/4iPToS0

It’s Fish Friday! Did you know that seahorses live in the Hudson River? As an estuary, the Hudson River has both freshwater from rivers and streams and saltwater from the Atlantic Ocean. The Hudson is saltier closer to the Atlantic Ocean, and the salt concentrations decrease on the way up the river. In New York City, ocean water flows up into the river, allowing saltwater species like the lined seahorse to inhabit the brackish water. The lined seahorse is not a very good swimmer, but it uses its tail to grab onto plant stems and other objects at the bottom of the estuary. These are tiny creatures, too – seldom more than five inches long!

Net Nit wit buildings are 100% ass tight w/toxic sprays, wraps & glues. When the electric goes out so do you.

Market driven solutions are not what we need they lead to hybrid hazelnuts which contract diseases in 2-3 years at best in this region, diseases endemic to the east coast, poorly researched market driven behavior nothing more.
Planting vast acres of monocultures of hybrid hazelnut and hybrid chestnuts is not regenerative. People thinking there is something valiant about showing spreadsheets of profits from monoculture industrial tree farming , often of ill suited genetics that will die out in 6-10 years, with no good plan for maintaining them, using herbicides for establishment and maintenance, is a moral travesty.
Gee, I am so surprised you can make money! ...doing ecologically destructive, half baked versions of good idea. But please do not try to delude yourself or anyone else that these monocultures of hybrids grown with herbicides are an ecological system or anything like what we can intelligently agree to be the definition of Regenerative or a Permaculture Forest Garden Ecosystem. They are so far from it, it is insulting to have that term even affiliated with these endeavors.
Planting out hundreds and thousands of acres with two or three species of trees and shrubs, cheek to jowl, monocultures at a industrial scale, using petro-chemicals is polluting and destructive, by no means are these activities helping with climate chaos, they are in fact making it worse. These are nothing more than extractive, business as usual, monstrosities, aberrations, driven by profits before people and the planet.
Don't be hoodwinked by the bluster behind this multi-billion dollar propaganda machine being rolled out by the likes of TNC under the aegis of "climate smart" carbon sequestration initiatives. These projects do no ecological footprint accounting behind these claims.
My friends this is where market driven solutions will get us, nothing better than a "green" rendition of the corporatocracy.
We need an entirely new system, put simply one which puts the health of the people, our Earth and future generations far and above profits for corporations and the families of the Robber Barons. An economy where we tax appropriately for letting the private sector use our public commons, our air, our water ,soil and endemic biodiversity Taxing at the rate, of pre-Reagan days all individuals and enterprises making millions or more, at above 70-80%,-https://www.wolterskluwer.com/en/expert-insights/whole-ball-of-tax-historical-income-tax-rates - than then these things that we the people really need, not what the market needs, will be easy: all education is free, all health care is free, there is a strong universal basic income and paid paternity leave for 2 years, a 4 day work week with a 6 hour day on average and a focus on full diet year round food supply on a regional basis and decentralized appropriate renewables.
My upcoming book release- Earth Is Our Home ; is focused on articulating for you my understanding of the pattern, and some details , of what this triple bottom line economy actually looks like, emerging from a people centered and place based design approach.
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Bronx woman repurposes office furniture for NYCHA residents, needs movers and donations THE BRONX, N.Y. (PIX11) — We’ve heard of food banks, but have you heard of furniture banks? A Bronx mother of three is helping hundreds of NYCHA residents get free furniture with her monthly …

All composite decking is an ecological nightmare to be eschewed.

The NYPD is interfering with NYers taking care of NYers and New NYErs.

Can Host-Home Programs Help Relieve NYC’s Housing Crisis? As much of the country grapples with an affordable housing shortage, host-home and home sharing programs—which typically pair people who have a room to spare with those in need of a place to live—are a growing intervention.