Fall & Winter Vegetable Planting Guide

Here is some more ideas on fall and winter vegetables which we can use on our garden if everything works out well.

winter plants

here are some of the winter plant list. if we do start plant in the cold we can also set up themes for our garden. we can have a christmas theme and have some decoration of our plants

Advice For Gardening

This website had some advice for gardening. since we are not going to plant directly to the roof, we can use some regular garden technique to set up our roof garden. the first and the most important part is to find and setting for our gardening. find a place where mostly exposed to sun and available on campus. we have to get permission for that location as soon as possible. second if we are going to start planting in this winter, we can use some plant that are resistance to the cold, for example: kale, everygreen,etc. (i will post another link for the plants).

Pocket Guide to Sustainability

Here is a great Pocket Guide to Sustainability.

It tells you the basics on how to live a sustainable lifestyle.

"Working together, We can make it happen!"

According to CCNY's sustainability plan, many steps are being taken in order to incorporate sustainability into the curriculum for students. Some of these actions include:

Fall 2011:
M.S in Earth Systems and Environmental Engineering :)!!!
Environmental Studies BA program

annual earth day celebrations

Other facts:

The waste cooking oil in the cafeteria is converted to bio-diesel.

CCNY was the first CUNY to replace the cars for public safety with hybrids. The shuttle buses use natural gas.

CCNY does not order from paper catalogs, instead ordering electronically, to eliminate that as a source of paper waste.

List of Organizations to get Sustainability Ideas

I found a website which is dedicated to Times Square and deal with all the happenings that go on in that location. They also have a sustainability plan and in their website I found 3 resources out of the 4 named that we can contact to get ideas we can add or adjust to our current sustainability plan. They include:

1. Energy Incentive Resources- which runs "PlaNYC" (NYC's sustainability plan)

2. Sustainability Design Resource- which works with organizations like NYC Department of Design and Construction, and U.S Green Building Council.

3. Tips for Going Green Daily- Discusses prompting sustainability in a daily manner.

I've sent emails to PlaNYC and NYC Department of Environmental Conservation to get ideas on sustainability.

Also, I want to add PlaNYC is a student run website run at NYU's Furman center. But it is a city based public plan and is not affiliated with NYU's sustainability plan. It is run under Campaign for New York's Future.

Vladimir Lenin, King Tut and the McDonald's Happy Meal: What do they all have in common?

Since we are watching all these food videos all of us were disgusted by the food processing industries i thought u guys might like this article too. its about the Mickey D's hamburger in a Happy meal. The hamburger did not decompose even after 180 days. Mind you all the Mickey D's ham burger patties are made from 100% USDA ground beef!