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SWEEPING UP: Your Go Green BK Newsletter for 5/3/2018
Your weekly source for all things Green in BK.
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Hello Go Greeners!
Saturday will be sunny and warm. The birds will singing, the flowers will bloom, and Lisa Bloodgood will clean the waterfront of Newtown Creek, as she has done for many years. She tells us about why she sweeps in
this week's feature.
Next, take a trip to Dead Horse Bay with a new
photo-essay. Learn about this unique, and very trashy, attraction, and how New York City failed to keep yesterday's garbage out of sight, out of mind.
Then, put your hands (and feet, and whole body) to the test by helping Riverkeeper and company clean the ragged shores of our local waterways, in just one of the many events on tap this week in our fabulous
event calendar.
Finally, the fine juicers at Brooklyn Standard have offered to juice you, if only
you can be a winner in our weekly quiz.
And don't forget to follow us on
Facebook,
Instagram, and
Twitter!
Go Green BK!
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Confessions of a Sweeper
Lisa Bloodgood is to the shoreline sweep as Julia Chld was to midcentry American cuisine: by which we mean,a towering, galvanizing figure. Read her heartfelt confessional about why she sweeps.
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Dead Horse Bay
Join us for a photographic journey to the wild and forgotten shores of Brooklyn's own inadvertent musuem of trash, Dead Horse Bay, in this photo-essay.
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Field Day Fridays, w/NCA
Friday, 5/4, 4pm
Join the Newtown Creek Alliance for Friday's in the garden, as they assemble volunteers to help tend to Greenpoint's most photogenic rooftop farms, at Kingsland Avenue.
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Riverkeeper's Sweeps
Saturday, 5/5, 11pm
Join Riverkeeper, their partners, Sweep Leaders, and sponsors for the 7th Riverkeeper Sweep, our annual day of service for the Hudson River and its tributaries.
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Jane's Walk
Saturday, 5/5, 11am
Join Greening Greenpoint for a guidedwalk,exploring the former Bushwick Inlet Creek, and led by Greenpoint historian Geoffrey Cobb, author of "Greenpoint's Forgotten Past," and "The King of Greenpoint."
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Design Justice and Zero Waste
Tuesday, 5/8, 8pm
Join us at the first Design, Justice & Zero Waste: Exploring Pathways to a Circular Economy conference and research collaborative. You will be part of a discussion with a global audience of innovative and creative eco-minded collaborators including practitioners, researchers, advocates and activists.
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L-Train Reconstruction Town Hall
Wednesday, 5/8, 6:30pm
The MTA New York City Transit and NYC DOT are holding two town hall meetings to discuss the April 2019 reconstruction of the L line's Canarsie Tunnel. Join them for an open discussion about the impending shutdown and options.
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See more events like this on our
website.
Have an event of your own you want to promote on our
calendar? Submit them
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Welcome to the end of our email, where, like
Arvind Mahankali failing to impress himself (or his parents), we offer you the chance to win a prize!
There was no winner last week, because, LAME!
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):
- How many years running has Lisa Bloodgood staged the North Brooklyn shoreline sweep?
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 SMALL JUICE from the fabulous
Brooklyn Standard!
A curated bodega, featuring fresh baked goods, locavore delights, and a fabulous juice-bar, the Brooklyn Standard is a fine place to kick up your heels.
Brooklyn Standard
766 Grand St.
Brooklyn, NY 11211 |
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