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BAG IT!: Your Go Green BK Newsletter for 3/16/2018
Your weekly source for all things Green in BK.
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Bag It, Already!
Local eco-hero Jennie Romer is on a mission to ban plastic bags from the city. Learn about her efforts, and her up-and-down fight in
this week's feature.
You can meet her and other green movers and shakers at this week's NAG-hosted Environmental Happy Hour! It's just one of many fine
events we have for you to peruse.
And what smells so good? Could it be the ancient shamanistic smudge stick of the Yucatan? See for yourself in this week's
quiz!
Have a great week. And don't forget to follow us on
Facebook,
Instagram, and
Twitter!
Go Green BK!
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Eco-Hero Jennie Romer
Plastic bags are Ms. Romer's personal bug bear. In fact, she has made it her crusade to get them banned in the city of New York - no mean feat, for a town that produces 10 billion of the little buggers each year. Get inspired by her fight!
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Who Heals the Healer?
Friday, 3/16, 7pm
Through this conversation, we intend to cultivate an ecosystem rooted in community care for wellness, social justice and healing practitioners who can hold space for one another as they continue to hold space for community.
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Can NYC Survive the Sea?
Friday, 3/16, 7pm
A post–Superstorm Sandy map designates a stunning 147 square miles of New York - nearly half of the entire city and encompassing nearly three million people — as a hurricane evacuation zone. Rising sea level will only complicate the coastal flooding problem. How did America’s largest city arrive at this perilous impasse? What has the city done in the past to address coastal flooding? And what was the response to Sandy?
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Environmental Happy Hour
Monday, 3/19, 6:30pm
Do you want to get involved with a North Brooklyn neighborhood group? Do you care about environmental issues? Join us for a drink! The presentations are purposefully short so that you’ll have plenty of time to grab a drink and talk directly with the experts and your neighbors.
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Natural Spectrum Dyes
Tuesday, 3/20, 6pm
In this workshop you will gain knowledge and experiment with the time honored art of natural dyeing. Participants will learn about the many plants, roots, berries, minerals, and insects that have been used for thousands of years to create color on cloth.
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World Water Day
Thursday, 3/22
This year's theme, Nature for Water explores how we can use nature to overcome the water challenges of the 21st century. World Water Day is coordinated by UN-Water – the UN’s inter-agency collaboration mechanism for all freshwater related issues – in collaboration with governments and partners.
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See more events like this on our
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Welcome to the end of our email, where, like
Harris, White, and Stokes (Ribbit!), we offer you the chance to win a prize!
Congratulations to last week's winner, Amanda Field, who correctly answered that Bunny met Obama a few years back. Amanda is
a photographer and mother working on a project documenting elementary-school lockdown drills. She will toast her own good intelligence with a free cocktail at The Diamond Bar.
All you have to do be a winner like her is answer me this question (which, if you've read this email, should be a snap):
- What was the legislative number for the recent Plastic Bag Bill, which passed the City Council in May of 2016?
Send your answer to
jamie@townsquareinc.com, along with your name and anything else you want us to know about you. Our winner will be selected at random, and published here, next week.
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This week's prize: A free stick of Palo Santo incense at
Starhawk Design Studios on Manhattan Ave! A proud wellspring of old-fashioned hippie good sense, repelete with tie-dies, crystal singing bowls (Ask for a demonstration!), and all sorts of eco-friendly gifts, Starhawk is a rare bird indeed. |
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