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Archive for April, 2011
April 30: Local Food, Local Adventure!
Posted in Uncategorized on April 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Renaming the East River
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged algonquin, baard, east river, erik, Estuary, gotham gazette, gotham strait, north brooklyn boat club, queensboro bridge on April 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Even as tensions continue to simmer over adding Mayor Ed Koch’s name to the Queensboro Bridge, a friend who’s founding the North Brooklyn Boat Club wrote to me regarding a name change for the East River that flows beneath it. I explored this topic, and made a proposal, in 2009 for the Gotham Gazette in [...]
“Holler Down My Rain Barrel”
Posted in Uncategorized on April 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Holler down my rain barrel Slide down my cellar door And we’ll be jolly friends Forever evermore. Be a “jolly friend” to our estuary and reduce combined sewage overflows with a free rain barrel from the New York City Department of Environmental Protection in the coming weeks at one of these locations: Queens Saturday, April [...]
Audubon-aton.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged audubon, baard, biomimicry, byzantium, da vinci, erik, flight, four sparrows marsh, glossy ibis, gull, herring, institute, nature calendar, new york, nyc, nyc audubon, ocean acidification, yeats on April 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Today is John James Audubon‘s 226th birthday. His exquisite images of North American wildlife are his homage to nature, especially birds. One aspect of birds’ beauty is their adornment, displaying colors rivaled in the animal world only by butterflies. Feathers far exceed fur in specialization in length and shape for display and survival. One of [...]
The Little Plum of the Big Apple
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged beach plums, cornell, friends of gateway, fruit, New York Harbor, nyrp, urban, whitlow on April 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
When explorer Giovanni da Verrazano sailed into New York Harbor in 1524, he remarked on the multitude of this sweet fruit thriving in sand. In 1609, Henry Hudson was similarly delighted. This vision of our estuary is long lost, but not irrecoverable despite massive urbanization. Imagine waterfronts swaying with white flowers that grow into delicious plums [...]
A Hopping Town
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged airport, coney island, easter bunny, evolution, fossils, gateway, hares, house rabbit society, Jamaica Bay, jfk, nyc, Parks, rabbit rescue, rabbits, wildlife refuge on April 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Beavers might be honored by the city seal and mosaics at Astor Place, but bunnies know where the fun is. Coney Island derives its named from konijn, the Dutch word for rabbit. It’s fitting that this energetic and fertile creature (rabbits can get pregnant while already pregnant) would define the playground of our city. Today [...]
Before Summer Haze, Spring Azure
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged blue, blueberry, butterfly, butterfly project, cleopatra, color, dogwood, Egyptian, lapis lazuli, new jersey tea, new york, nyc, pigment, spring azure, structured color on April 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
When you see a Spring Azure butterfly, imagine a covetous Cleopatra. The ancients cherished this brilliant hue of blue with a hint of green, so like the sky on a clear day. The word azure comes to us by way of Lazheward, the Persian name for the region of Afghanistan where lapis lazuli has been mined [...]
The Value of a Tree
Posted in Uncategorized on April 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
President Theodore Roosevelt might have intuited the value of a tree, but economists must lay aside sentiment and assign a value.
Be the E! Celebrate With Earth Day New York
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged earth day, earth day new york, earthfair, grand central, time's square on April 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Earth Day New York events are a great way to celebrate our planet with performances, a street fair, exhibits, arts, green innovations and product demos! Wander over to midtown for happenings in Times Square and Grand Central Terminal, from April 21-23.
