Climate Leadership Continues By New York State: Infrastructure Investments, Community Projects, Environmental Conservation, Emmissions Standards
Editor’s note: Last year, the Nature Conservancy held a symposium to discuss the…
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Now Streaming On Prime: Novel Approach To Reducing Climate Change With Soil Microbes, Regenerative Agriculture: Kiss The Ground
Readers may remember our review of Groundswell, the final film in this trilogy of regeneration. …
Bayonne NJ Recognized As Bona Fide “Tree City” By Arbor Day Foundation Due To Prevalence, Centrality Of Trees
Bayonne Earns Tree City USA Recognition from Arbor Day Foundation Editor’s note: For those readers…
New York Senator: Gas Prices Are Rising, School Meals For All Program Would Help Struggling Families
Pass School Meals For All, $10 Billion IRS Payday, Surging Gas Prices, Collective Bargaining Rights DOD,…
Environmental Transformation Totally Possible With Time, Investment: “Groundswell” Must-See Movie – Finally Reversing Human Destruction Of Earth: UPDATED
Editor’s note: See below for our interview with Rebecca Tickell, one of the filmmakers for…
New York Senator: Student Loan Debt Relief, Standing With Unions, Tree Planting Funding For Underserved Communities, UAP Release, Second Ave Subway, Other Updates
Student Loan Debt Relief, Release Bronx Funding, Standing With Unions, 60 Days Of Iran War, Tree…
Support Your Neighbors: Join Data Entry Event in Staten Island Tomorrow To Map Equity Data For St. George Park
Support Your Neighbors: Join our Data Entry Event in Staten Island! Editor’s note: The…
Environmental Issues Often Don’t Touch Royalty – But England’s King Was Different: Finding Harmony: A Kings Vision Must-See Movie Review
Environmental Issues Tend To Not Touch Royalty – But England’s King Was Different: Finding Harmony:…
Staten Island’s PS18R To Get Community Schoolyard Shaped By Student, Public Participation, Feedback
Staten Island kids at I.S.7R also received a community schoolyard back in 2021, and…
Better Coney Island, Hear From The Mayor, Key To The City Fmr. Congressman, Universal After-School, Got Stuff Done, Companion Animal Housing Equity: Mayor Adams
Better Coney Island, Hear From The Mayor, Key To The City Fmr. Congressman, Universal After-School,…
Preventing Israel Boycott In Contracts, Funding For Staten Island Parks, Housing Progress, Commucating With Non-English Speakers, New Older Adult Center: Mayor
Preventing Israel Boycott In Contracts, Funding For Staten Island Parks, Housing Progress, Commucating With Non-English…
NY Gov, Atty Gen: Conservation Win For State Lands With Memorandum of Understanding To Facilitate Quick Preservation
NY Gov, Atty Gen: Conservation Win For State Lands With Memorandum of Understanding To Facilitate…
New Kids Community Schoolyards For Neighborhood Children, Sports, Exercise: In Manhattan Last Week, Brooklyn Later This Month
New Kids Community Schoolyards For Neighborhood Children, Sports, Exercise: In Manhattan Last Week, Brooklyn Later…
In The Bronx, Foliage Planting Along Grand Concourse Brings Beauty To Area During NYCxDesign Festival
In The Bronx, Foliage Planting Along Grand Concourse Brings Beauty To Area During NYCxDesign Festival…
City Parks Foundation Hosts Urban Forest Community Kickoff Event To Engage Community Members In Environmental Change
City Parks Foundation Hosts Urban Forest Community Kickoff Event To Engage Community Members In Environmental…
NY’s Nature Conservancy Holds Symposium
NY’s Nature Conservancy Holds Symposium Editor’s note: The Nature Conservancy previously discussed some of…
Staten Island Leads Way In New Tree Growth, Followed By Queens, the Bronx
From the original study referenced below, published in Public Library Of Science (PLOS): Spatial patterns…
Staten Island’s Greenbelt: Borough of Parks Evolution From Beginning To Modern Day
Staten Island’s Greenbelt: Borough of Parks Evolution From Beginning To Modern Day Staten Islander…
Disappearing Parks: How Project 2025 Could Decrease Protections For National Monuments, Roll Back Progress In Filling Nature Gap For Low Income Americans
Disappearing Parks: How Project 2025 Would Decrease Protections for Nature Editor’s note: We have previously…
New Executive Director Appointed For Nature Conservancy’s New York Cities Program
Tami Lin-Moges Appointed Director of Nature Conservancy’s New York Cities Program Editor’s note: Staten Islander…
Putting ‘Park’ Back In Park Avenue, Nation’s Largest Curbside Charging Program, Making High-Quality Childcare More Affordable For New Yorkers, 24 New Schools: NYC Mayor
MAYOR ADAMS LAUNCHES MAJOR STEP TO PUT THE “PARK” BACK IN PARK AVENUE City Releases…
Helpful Tips For Summer Fun, Healthy Living – Sport & Fitness Spotlight Returns Next Week
Hello readers, We’ll return with our Spotlight Series next week with an insightful interview with…
Property Rights As An Exercise Of Human Will – Not Privileges Granted By State
Property Rights and the Will to Own Editor’s note: Staten Islander has recently covered issues…
Nature Conservancy: Many Policy Wins, Positive Changes In 2023
Season’s Greetings to you and yours! Writing to share The Nature Conservancy’s 2023 Impact Report….
Nature Conservancy Releases New Tree Canopy Maps For Each Borough Of NYC, Part Of Forest For All NYC’s Plan To Increase Canopy Cover
The Nature Conservancy Publishes Fact Sheets on Tree Canopy for Every New York City Council…
New Small Wetlands Protections In NYS May Protect Critical Small Wetlands, Vital To Farms, Homes, Infrastructure
Wetland Wonders: Reforms Included in New York’s Budget Will Help Safeguard These Vital Areas Marshes,…
BP Fosella, CM. Hanks Announce Funding To Revitalize Play Area At Walker Park In Staten Island’s Randall Manor
BP Fossella, Council Member Hanks to Announce Funding to Revitalize Play Area at Walker Park…
Using Power Of Habits, Plus Fun, Discipline To Get Fit, Improve Your Life In NYC
I have accumulated quite a bit of wisdom in my almost twenty years in the…
Lincoln Elementary School In Newark To Receive New Playground Funded By Trust For Public Land (Responsible For Staten Island’s Pouch Camp Preservation), Local Synagogue, To Improve Access To Greenspace, Recreational Areas – Design To Be By Students, Stakeholders
National nonprofit, Newark synagogue to build new playground at Lincoln Elementary Jessie Gomez, Chalkbeat Newark…
Renovations At Fitzpatrick Park In Bayonne Earned Consulting And Municipal Engineering Associates (CME) Project Of The Year Award
The New Jersey Society of Municipal Engineers has given the Consulting and Municipal Engineering Associates…
NYC Dept Of Planning Encourages New Yorkers To Participate, State Priorities For Capital Budget
NYC PLANNING AGENCY TO COMMUNITY BOARDS: IT’S TIME TO STATE PRIORITIES FOR CAPITAL BUDGET The Department…
Update From Councilmember Hanks On New Property Tax Legislation, Public Safety, Sanitation Improvements, Other Budget News
I hope you and your loved ones are doing well. I wanted to share some…
Staten Island’s Wiliam H. Pouch Camp Natural Area Preserved Forever As A Natural And Open Public Space, Used By The Boy Scouts And All Islanders
City commits funds to allow 19 acres of property to be preserved as protected natural…
“Green Schoolyard” Opened At Staten Island’s I.S.7R School In Southeast Annadale With Outdoor Classroom Space, Flood Mitigation Technology
Editor’s Note: Green schoolyards are a project of the Trust for Public Land, the author…
The Battle To Save The Graniteville Wetland Continues: An Update From Gabriella Velardi Ward of SI Coalition of Wetlands and Forests
The Graniteville Wetland located along South Avenue in Staten Island has been a point of…
