It happened a while ago but still worth a peek:
Check out LUNGS inspired M’Finda Kalunga Garden’s Children’s Book Festival
For more info on other events: LUNGS- Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens
TODAY is the deadline to register to vote in the coming city elections!
Chinese Progressive Association will set up a voter information and registration table in front of M’Finda Kalunga Community Garden on Oct 21. We could give out information about Nov 7, 2017 election, help current voters with with absentee ballots, changing information
They will also register any new voters — but they won’t be able to vote until 2018!
October 21st from 12pm -4pm
Rivington Street between Chrystie and Forsyth
M’Finda Kalunga Garden
Even though it sometimes means you may have to deal with confused people…
Organized by Citizen’s for NYC
They moved heavy bags of mulch & stones. Weeded, planted, pruned, removed garbage, raked, & wielded pitch forks!
Thank you Bloomingdales and Citizen’s for NYC!
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And thank you to the Guys who were Allies for Girls Day:
Steve Elson schlepping bags of stones, our two PEP officers, Ralph Musolino of Parks Department and his staff Don and others ,and, of course, SDR’s heart and soul: Bob Humber and our hard working Citizen’s for NYC Development Volunteer Coordinator Andrew Rohrberger!
“Go to any major chain supermarket and think about that tower of perfectly stacked, impeccable oranges or tomatoes, and understand that the supermarket by design has already figured and costed-out the fact — the immutable fact — that they will throw 30 percent in the garbage just so it will look cool,” he said. “This is horrifying.”
Chef Danny Bowien stars with Mr. Bourdain in their new film, “Wasted: The Story of Food Waste,”
Governments, businesses and civil society together with the United Nations have started to mobilize efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Agenda by 2030. Universal, inclusive and indivisible, the Agenda calls for action by all countries to improve the lives of people everywhere.In 2015, countries adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals. In 2016, the Paris Agreement on climate change entered into force, addressing the need to limit the rise of global temperatures. Explore this site to find out more about the efforts of the UN and its partners to build a better world with no one left behind.
Climate change is now affecting every country on every continent. It is disrupting national economies and affecting lives, costing people, communities and countries dearly today and even more tomorrow.
People are experiencing the significant impacts of climate change, which include changing weather patterns, rising sea level, and more extreme weather events. The greenhouse gas emissions from human activities are driving climate change and continue to rise. They are now at their highest levels in history. Without action, the world’s average surface temperature is projected to rise over the 21st century and is likely to surpass 3 degrees Celsius this century—with some areas of the world expected to warm even more. The poorest and most vulnerable people are being affected the most.
Affordable, scalable solutions are now available to enable countries to leapfrog to cleaner, more resilient economies. The pace of change is quickening as more people are turning to renewable energy and a range of other measures that will reduce emissions and increase adaptation efforts.
But climate change is a global challenge that does not respect national borders. Emissions anywhere affect people everywhere. It is an issue that requires solutions that need to be coordinated at the international level and it requires international cooperation to help developing countries move toward a low-carbon economy.
To address climate change, countries adopted the Paris Agreement at the COP21 in Paris on 12 December 2015. The Agreement entered into force less than a year later. In the agreement, all countries agreed to work to limit global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius, and given the grave risks, to strive for 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Implementation of the Paris Agreement is essential for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, and provides a roadmap for climate actions that will reduce emissions and build climate resilience.
Lovingly tended by Rob Watson and company.
Visitors talked to the chickens, communed with the Turtles in the pond, played in the sandbox and Bocce Court – and watched the migrations of the Monarch Butterflies.
And the fearless Parks Rat Borough Removers swung by:
Beautiful and endangered. Monarch Butterflies.
Several Gardeners are now growing milkweed – crucial to the Monarch’s survival.
Endangered by Climate Change and “Roundup” Herbicide NYTimes:
“Of all the assaults on the monarch population, climate change may prove the most pernicious. In summer, excessive heat stresses developing caterpillars already vulnerable to diseases and predators. In fall, unseasonable warmth can prevent them from heading south in time to reach their wintering grounds, and extreme weather events like hurricanes can destroy an entire wave of the migration before it reaches Mexico…”
“The life cycle of the monarch hinges on the availability of milkweed, but the prevalence of the herbicide Roundup has made milkweed very hard to find: Crops genetically modified to withstand herbicides can be carpet-sprayed, poisoning every wildflower in its wake. Milkweed, which once grew in great stands along the nation’s roadsides and in the margins of farms, essentially disappeared from the American landscape overnight. In 1996, the year before Roundup-resistant soybeans and corn were first planted in the Midwest, the butterflies’ primary migration corridor, there were a billion migrating monarchs in North America. This year there are roughly 109 million, and that number is down 27 percent from just last year.”
