A good chunk of the East River book is now online for free! Get some hot cocoa and enjoy?
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Much of the East River Book Online for Free!
Posted in Atlantic Ocean, Bronx, Brooklyn, Crustaceans, Edible Plants, Estuary, Fish, Geology, Long Island Sound, Manhattan, New York Harbor, Parks, Queens, Recreation, Vertebrates, Water, fossils, tagged arcardia, bluefish, cordgrass, east river, erik baard, gotham strait, nature, nature calendar, new york city, nyc, richard melnick, spartina, striped bass, thomas jackson, urban ecologu, urban ecology on January 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Nov. 9: Fossil Brooklyn Day! (Living and Dead)
Posted in Atlantic Ocean, Brooklyn, Edible Plants, Estuary, Fall, Geology, Parks, Plants, Trees, wild eyed, tagged Asian, autumn, Brooklyn, carl mehling, edible, erik baard, Fall, foraging, fossils, gingko, Ginkgo, herbal medicine, locavore, nature calendar, naturecalendar, new york city, paleontology, Prospect Park, recipes, steve brill, Trees, wildman on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On November 9 we will have our first social outings as a Nature Calendar community. In the morning we will hunt for fossils with paleontologist Carl Mehling as he concludes his private quest to find fossils (native or transported by glaciers) in all five boroughs. He’s scored fossils in the four other boroughs from periods [...]
Habana Happy Hour Tonight! Green Teachers, Green Grub!
Posted in Amphibians, Astronomy, Birds, Brooklyn, Edible Plants, Fall, Flowers, Fresh Water, Fungi, Gardens, Geology, Grasses, Insects, Invertebrates, Lakes, Mammals, Parks, Plants, Ponds, Recreation, Reptiles, Snakes, Streams, Trees, Vertebrates, Water, clouds, volunteer, tagged audubon center, Birds, children, education, environment, forests, habana outpost, meadow, nature calendar, nyc audubon, prospect park alliance, soil, teachers, urban ecology, Winter, winter warm up on October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hi All!
NYC’s greenest restaurant, Habana Outpost, is hosting a “Winter Warm Up” talk and happy hour. Learn about Prospect Park and the Audubon Center while mixing with fun and friendly teachers. Oh yeah, and enjoy Habana Outpost’s delicious food, party atmosphere, and ecological model before it shuts on Oct 31!
More info through this link:
http://habanaworks.org/
And read [...]
Light, then Heat.
Posted in Astronomy, Atlantic Ocean, Bronx, Brooklyn, Estuary, Fall, Geology, Manhattan, New York Harbor, Queens, Spring, Staten Island, Summer, Water, Weather, Winter, clouds, tagged Astronomy, atmosphere, chaos theory, complexity theory, david grinspoon, denver museum, dog days, erik baard, funky science, heat, heat wave, isothermic, Joe Rao, nature, nature calendar, naturecalendar, new york city, new york times, science, solstice, Summer, sunlight, urban ecology, urban environment, urban heat, USA Today, venus on June 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
by Erik Baard
A kid waiting to kayak at the Clearwater Festival last Solstice weekend asked me, “If this is the longest day of the year, then why isn’t it the hottest?” It’s a logical question, and I guess a common one. The incomparable Joe Rao addressed it in his New York Times astronomy blurb last [...]
WildWire: June 21-25
Posted in Astronomy, Atlantic Ocean, Birds, Bronx, Brooklyn, Crustaceans, Estuary, Fish, Flowers, Fresh Water, Gardens, Geology, Grasses, Insects, Invertebrates, Lakes, Long Island Sound, Mammals, Manhattan, New York Harbor, Parks, Plants, Ponds, Queens, Recreation, Reptiles, Staten Island, Streams, Summer, Trees, Water, butterflies, volunteer, wildwire, tagged audubon, bike new tork, biking, blue heron park, Bronx, bronx river alliance, Brooklyn, butterflies, canoe, canoeing, Central Park, clearwater festival, conservancy, Downtown Boathouse, east river, edible, erik baard, foraging, fort tryon, gowanus, hiking, hudson river, inwood, just foods, kayaking, lic, long island city, Manhattan, marine park, mike feller, nature calendar, naturecalendar, new york restoration, nyrp, orchard beach, peter tagatac, Prospect Park, Queens, queens botanical, recycle-a-bicycle, Rocking the Boat, salt marsh, sebago, socrates sculpture park, Staten Island, sustainable south bronx, topofthelawn, totten, urban park rangers, van cortlandt, walking, wave hill, wildflowers, wildman steve brill, wildwire on June 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Happy Solstice! Summer is here, and life is booming. Make sure you head down to Jamaica Bay to see cacti, horseshoe crabs, and diamondback terrapin turtles! Or get lost in a world of wildflowers and butterflies in Pelham Bay Park. As for the loveliness above…never again will you speak ill of Staten Island without feeling [...]
Mark Kurlansky on “The Big Oyster”
Posted in Atlantic Ocean, Estuary, Fish, Geology, Invertebrates, Long Island Sound, Manhattan, New York Harbor, Parks, Ponds, Queens, Recreation, Staten Island, tagged african american, american indian, baykeeper, book, canal street, colonial, dutch, Estuary, history, interview, mark kurlansky, middens, native american, new york city, New York Harbor, nick schultz, oysters, pearl street, rockaways, Staten Island, TCS daily, the river project, urban ecology, urban environment on June 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Forgive us if we go a little oyster crazy ahead of the Tuesday, June 17 event at Pier 40 to celebrate this species with The River Project and NY-NJ Baykeeper.
Below is a fun and informative interview with acclaimed author Mark Kurlansky about his New York Harbor-centered book, The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell. [...]
WildWire: June 13-June 18
Posted in Astronomy, Atlantic Ocean, Birds, Bronx, Brooklyn, Crustaceans, Edible Plants, Estuary, Fish, Flowers, Fresh Water, Gardens, Geology, Grasses, Insects, Invertebrates, Lakes, Long Island Sound, Manhattan, New York Harbor, Parks, Plants, Ponds, Queens, Recreation, Spring, Staten Island, Streams, Summer, Trees, Vertebrates, Water, butterflies, volunteer, wildwire, tagged adventures nyc, amateur, Astronomy, audubon, backpacker magazine, battery park city, bike new york, Birds, blue heron, boathouse, bronx river, Brooklyn, butterfly, canoe, Central Park, conservancy, critical mass, department of parks and recreation, Downtown Boathouse, east river, erik baard, floyd bennet field, forest park, fort tryon, fort washington, gantry neighborhood parks, great kills, greenpoint, hudson river, inwood hill, inwood hill park, jane bailey, kayak, kayaking, kissena park, lic, mulberry, National Parks Service, nature calendar, nature center, Nature Network, naturecalendar, new york city, new york restoration project, nyrp, park, pelham bay, Prospect Park, river project, Rocking the Boat, salt marsh, sebago, time's up!, Trees, urban ecology, urban environment, urban park rangers, van cortlandt, volunteer, wagner park, wave hill, willowbrook on June 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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Oh, the burden of choice! With a hyper-fun suite of Adventures NYC events sponsored by Backpacker Magazine adding to our usually full menu of eco-recreation, you may find your head spinning a bit!
As always, FREE is the rule and we have a mix of family-friendly events and adult socials.
A few highlights include: a [...]
“If Manhattan Was Schist, it Wouldn’t Be Gneiss”
Posted in Bronx, Geology, Manhattan, wildwire, tagged american museum of natural history, amnh, bedrock, Bronx, fort tryon, Geology, gneiss, horenstein, new york city, new york city department of parks, Parks, Recreation, schist, urban ecology, urban environment, wildwire on June 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We’ve had some frustrating wifi problems and wanderings today and last night in trying to get this week’s WildWire posted, so please forgive the delay in alerting you to this great walking tour:
Sidney Horenstein’s If Manhattan Was Schist, It Wouldn’t Be Gneiss
Thursday, Jun 12, 2008
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Manhattan
Join Sidney Horenstein for a [...]
Tour de (Heat Island) Queens
Posted in Birds, Estuary, Geology, Mammals, New York Harbor, Parks, Plants, Queens, Recreation, Spring, Summer, Trees, Vertebrates, Weather, tagged administration, aeronautics, biking, Birds, chad seewagen, combine sewer, coratid rete, david berreby, geological survey, grass, hardscape, heat island, helen ho, livescience, maspeth, migratory, NASA, new yorker, newtown creek, oil, overflow, panorama, panting, Plants, Queens, queens museum, robin lloyd, space, street films, Summer, sweat, terminal moraine, tour de queens, transportation alternatives, Trees, U.S., urban, urban ecology, urban environment, USGS, village voice on June 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
When Transportation Alternative’s absolutely wonderful Tour de Queens (enjoy the Street Films video above) rolled into Maspeth on Sunday under the blaze of a record-setting June heat wave, we were subjected to a brutal lesson in urban planning and natural history.
The Newtown Creek is infamous for being home to the largest [...]
