Clean Water & Watershed Protection
Friends of the Housatonic
Friends of the Housatonic increases environmental awareness on issues concerning the Housatonic River and its tributaries. The group supports and initiates activities that improve the health of the river through expanding trout fishing opportunities for the general public with private stockings and working with the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to implement proactive trout management programs. Additionally, they support Connecticut’s DEP program of “No Child Left Inside,” which allows inner city children to access and experience the outdoors through activities such as fishing, camping, and hiking.
Contact: Harold MacMillian
Hudson River Watershed Alliance (HRWA)
HRWA is a regional collaboration of more than 200 stakeholders working to protect, conserve and restore the water resources of the Hudson River watershed. As a non-advocacy coalition, HRWA includes representatives from various sectors include: research and educational institutions; state, county and local agencies; regional environmental and professional organizations; local grassroots groups; and business and private interests. Focused on education, networking and information sharing, HRWA acts as a clearinghouse of information related to the land and water resources of the Hudson River watershed.
Contact: Katy Dunlap Katy@hudsonwatershed.org
Rivers Alive at Wall Street
Rivers Alive at Wall Street seeks to provide full public access to the waters of the East River on Pier 13 at Wall Street. The group seeks to create a center for active waterfront recreation and education on Pier 13 for residents, workers, and visitors, and to elevate the history of Lower Manhattan with site-specific artwork that evokes New York's majestic suspension bridges, glorious skyscrapers and regal tall ships. Pier 13 will contain an outdoor aquarium, facilities for boating, wading, fishing and provide a berth for the Clearwater Sloop, which will offer environmental education to schools and individuals. It will include a group of wind turbines that provides on-site power generation. Co-founded by Al Landzberg and Anthony Walmsley, Rivers Alive at Wall Street is working with Community Board #1, elected officials of Lower Manhattan, and City government people to advance the Rivers Alive project.
Contact: Al Landzberg Alandzberg@aol.com or David Rocco coyoteroc@optonline.net
Science Partners Learning about Animals of the Sound and Hudson (S.P.L.A.S.H.)
Science Partners Learning about Animals of the Sound and Hudson (SPLASH) provides hands-on education about the Hudson River for almost 500 second-grade students in Westchester County through field trips; classroom observations of Hudson River marine life maintained in aquariums; and learning exchanges with students in other schools in the program.
Contact: Phyllis Forbes
Planning, Land Use & Preservation
93rd-94th Street Preservation Alliance
The 93rd-94th Street Preservation Alliance is a group of neighbors protecting open space and the quality of life in a corner of Manhattan's Upper West Side historic district. The group was formed to address the planned expansion of a private school into the donut of space behind two large apartment buildings and a number of brownstones. We have succeeded in persuading the school to radically modify its building plans and to retain and increase the greenery in the donut. Our group will monitor issues relating to the school and the neighborhood and build on the relationship we now have with the school as construction plans go forward.
Contact: Ann Lewis
AFFIRM, Inc
AFFIRM, Inc. utilizes careful land-use planning to preserve the areas of New Paltz and Gardiner while still maintaining controlled housing growth and appropriate economic development. In addition to the group’s monitoring of local governing and planning boards, AFFIRM also provides advice and support to single-issue grassroots environmental groups in the mid-Hudson area. Recently, Co-Chair David Porter represented the organization in a series of about six to eight mediated sessions regarding the proposed large-scale Stoneleigh Woods residential development in New Paltz.
Contact: David Porter
Deuel Hollow Conservation Association
Deuel Hollow Conservation Association (DHCA) preserves the scenic character and natural resources of the Duell Hollow area in Wingdale, NY which includes a large portion of land designated as wetlands and a Critical Environmental Area by the Department of Environmental Conservation. In recent years, DHCA has addressed subdivision proposals in the immediate area, worked with two Dover Highway Superintendents on Stormwater Management, and submitted two sets of Scoping Comments (2006 and 2008) on the proposed redevelopment of the Harlem Valley Wingdale Psychiatric Center (HVPC). The HVPC property borders Duell Hollow and will have an impact on the Duell Hollow CEA.
Contact: Constance DuHamel
Catskill Mountainkeeper
Catskill Mountainkeeper is a member based advocacy organization dedicated to preserving and protecting the long term health of the six counties of the Catskill Region. As a representative face of the Catskills, they strive to be the eyes, ears and voice that look at issues, listen to concerns and speak on behalf of people who live, work, and recreate here. They organize concerned citizens to protect existing jobs and industry, take care of abundant—but exceedingly vulnerable natural resources—and help to utilize available and often unclaimed local, state, and national funds to prevent and cushion the impact of natural disasters.
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Citizens for a Better Canada Lake
Citizens for a Better Canada Lake defends against disruptive boat use and damaging shoreline development. Recently, the group successfully blocked the construction of a residence in the guise of a boathouse. Currently, they are participating in a project to evaluate and preserve the historical and environmental character of Canada Lake.
Coalition for the Responsible Growth of Dover
Coalition for the Responsible Growth of Dover (CRGD) protects the character of the Town of Dover through sustainable development and redevelopment, open space preservation, and local environment protection. CRGD achieves these goals through educating local citizens and government leaders about the importance and benefits of responsible planning.
Concerned Citizens for Open Space, Inc.(CCOS)
CCOS acquires and preserves open space, raises community awareness about proposed buildings, and monitors the effects of development on the environment in the city of White Plains, New York. Recently, CCOS started a program of planting several trees on a local city walking trail called The Greenway.
Friends for a Better Amenia
Friends for a Better Amenia (FBA) advises and educates members of the community of Amenia in Dutchess County, New York about issues concerning the impacts of proposed large-scale residential and resort development. Issues of primary concern include view sheds, water quality, traffic patterns, property taxes, waste water treatments and population demographics. Currently, FBA is addressing the Silo Ridge Resort Community and the Keane Stud / Depot Hill Farm, as well as a possible Article 78 challenge to the new Comprehensive Plan and corresponding zoning laws passed in 2007.
Contact: Steven Benardete
Friends of Catskill Park
Friends of Catskill Park maintains and defends the natural beauty, clean waterways, abundant wildlife, and local communities of the Catskills region. The proposed Belleayre Resort at Catskill Park, a 400 million dollar, mountainside golf resort, sited in the heart of the Catskill Forest Preserve, is the most recent threat being addressed by the group.
Friends of the Hudson River Greenway in the Bronx
Friends of the Hudson River Greenway in the Bronx is a community organization dedicated to the preservation and enhancement of the natural, historic and cultural features of the Hudson River in the Bronx and Westchester. The Hudson River Greenway in the Bronx and Westchester is part of a trail connecting parkland and communities, and it extends from Albany to the southern tip of Manhattan. The group works to ensure that the Greenway provides significant opportunities for the surrounding community to enjoy the waterfront, and to protect and preserve the Hudson River, its shores, its wildlife and its scenic views.
Contact: Paul Elston pelston@pjelston.com
Germantown Neighbors Association
Germantown Neighbors Association has been working with area residents, elected officials, SUNY/Albany and state agencies about the problem of toxic air pollution in the mid-Hudson River Valley and the need for proper air monitoring in the region. The organization is also active in developing a series of programs and events to celebrate the 400th Anniversary of the exploration of the Hudson River in 2009.
Good Growth Columbia (GGC)
GGC promotes and maintains open space protection and green growth principles in Columbia County, New York through emphasizing education and outreach to both the public, local governments and the state legislature. Currently, GGC is assembling a redevelopment plan for the Hamlet of Slaverack based on Town’s draft comprehensive plan and a smart growth philosophy.
Lithgow Association
Lithgow Association preserves the rural character and open countryside of the Lithgow area in Dutchess County, New York. Recently, the Lithgow Association was successful in raising awareness about the importance of land use and zoning enforcement and this proactive work resulted in the replacement of two officials.
Millbrook Matters
Millbrook Matters raises public awareness about issues that affect the local community. The group is fully committed to a transparent local government, the sensible use of shared natural resources, thoughtful village and town planning, and open-minded public communication. Recently, Millbrook Matters gathered 150 signatures in less than 48 hours through an online petition regarding community planning issues and moved the Town to appoint two recommended members to the Town’s Master Plan Committee.
Oblong Valley Association
OVA preserves the natural habitats and resources of the Oblong Valley in eastern Dutchess County, New York. Originally, the Oblong Valley Association formed to oppose rock quarrying in South Amenia, a project that proposed mining twenty million tons of rock for one hundred and fifty years. Other concerns include clean water and watershed protection.
Preserve Salisbury
Preserve Salisbury opposes the expansion of an ill-planned development in the Lakeville / Salisbury region through educating the public and the Salisbury Planning and Zoning Commission on the ecological importance of the threatened area, which is renowned for its wild and scenic beauty. Currently, Preserve Salisbury has hired Hudsonia, Ltd. to conduct a biodiversity assessment of the Bird Peak Site on Mount Riga in Lakeville / Salisbury, Connecticut, which will be presented to the Planning and Zoning Commission in early January 2009. The study will also become a part of the formal administrative record that will be used to determine whether a Special Permit for the development should be granted.
Contact: Richard Turnure
Philipstown Citizens Alliance
PCA focuses on providing public information on crucial environmental, land use, and governmental concerns in the Town of Philipstown, New York. PCA recently protested a developer’s attempt to gain approvals for the construction of a gasoline station at the intersection of Routes 9 and 403, which would have had severe environmental consequences. As a result of their action, the Town now requires County Line Equities to apply for site plan approval and zoning variances.
Contact: Michael C. Finnegan
Protect the Village Historic District (PVHD)
PVHD works within the Greenwich Village to protect the historic areas from massive development. Most recently, PVHD addressed the massive developments proposed by Rudin Organizations and St. Vincent’s Hospital with the intention of modifying the proposals. In a very exciting moment of success, the Landmarks Preservation Commission sent St. Vincent’s $1.6 billion development back to the drawing board in May 2008.
Contact: Tom Molner
Quaker Hill Civic Association
Quaker Hill Civic Association works to maintain and extend open spaces, preserve amenities and natural beauty. It actively participates in area planning, provides a forum for meeting and exchanging ideas and information, and promotes public and civic interests in the Historic Oblong.
Roaring Brook Lake Project
Roaring Brook Lake Project monitors and maintains the sixty year old, man-made Roaring Brook Lake. Based on the success of this effort to contain the weed infestation, tax funding has been approved to be used for preserving a balanced ecology that is favorable to residents for fishing, swimming, and non-fuel powered boating.
Contact: Roberta G. Coles
Saugerties Citizens for Smart Development
Saugerties Citizens for Smart Development (SCSD) works to provide public access to the waterfront with a walkway along the bluff of the Partition Street Project (a hotel complex). Ultimately the goal is to link this scenic overlook of the Barclay Dam and waterfalls to the Saugerties Lighthouse. The walkway is the gem in the middle that will link the two properties along an extended Esopus Creek path. The group also has other preservation goals in the Village of Saugerties. Saugerties Citizens for Smart Development was formed in October 2009 as a successor organization to Save Nanny Goat Hill (SNAG) for the purpose of broadening public support around public access to the waterfront in Saugerties.
Contact: Judith Spektor judithspektor@aol.com
Sensible Wireless for Gardiner (SWG)
SWG protects the natural environment and viewshed of the town of Gardiner, New York through opposing the construction of a 160+ foot wireless tower. SWG promotes the implementation of wireless facilities that blend in with the natural and architectural features of the town as a means of providing necessary services and still preserving the scenic environment of Gardiner.
Contact: Linda Kastan
Stewart Park and Reserve Coalition (SPARC)
Stewart Park and Reserve Coalition preserved almost 7,000 acres of open space west of Stewart Airport in Newburgh, Orange County. This land, now known as the Stewart State Forest, provides a unique habitat for wildlife, a multi-recreational area, and parcels for agriculture. In addition, the land serves as a noise and safety buffer for Stewart Airport.
Contact: Sandra Kissam
Sustainable Flatbush
Sustainable Flatbush brings together neighbors to discuss, educate, and advocate for sustainable living in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Flatbush and beyond. This vision of a sustainable neighborhood includes equal access to healthy food and open spaces; preserving affordable housing and the diverse population it enables through innovative energy practices; and high-quality, resource-efficient transportation options, including cycling. In 2008, Sustainable Flatbush sponsored a number of projects such as a community garden, a neighborhood solar forum, and a post-holiday electronics recycling event.
Contact: Anne Pope
Sunset Ridge Coalition
Sunset Ridge Coalition (SRC) is an informal neighborhood network focused on the maintenance of a high environmental quality of life in the Sunset Ridge neighborhood of New Paltz, New York. In particular, SRC raises public awareness about issues regarding land-use, open space, and wetlands protection planning.
For more information, contact: Joe Braidt
TARGET Tuxedo
The goal of TARGET Tuxedo is to monitor proposals for and the implementation of residential and commercial development in and around the Town of Tuxedo, New York for the benefit of the public at large. TARGET Tuxedo works to raise the general level of awareness within this area about proposed development and ensures that all relevant governmental agencies having authority over such developments properly discharge their duties for the benefit of the public.
Thomson-Clarks Mills Residents Committee for a RiverFront Heritage Corridor Park
Thomson-Clarks Mills Residents Committee for a Heritage Corridor Park is establishing 40 acres of land owned by Koch Industries on the Hudson River waterfront in the hamlet of Thomson as a RiverFront Heritage Corridor Park. They are also working to preserve and protect the cultural, historic, natural, scenic, and open space resources of the tri-hamlet area of Thomson, Clarks Mills, and Fort Miller Bridge.
Contact: Kathleen Bartholomay
Environmental Education
Butterfly Project
The Butterfly Project works with community and school gardeners to assist in the development of native plants pollinator gardens. Since its inception in 2003, this all-volunteer organization has purchased and distributed over 5,000 native plants to more than one hundred gardens all over New York City, presented a number of workshops on the topics of pollinators and pollinator plants, and developed a middle school Pollinator Curriculum Guide.
For more information, contact: Chrissy Word
Earth Matter NY
Earth Matter NY aims to reduce garbage by encouraging more composting in the surrounding community. This group supports it mission by improving local composting efforts, educating the community on the benefits of composting, using best practices to improve soil health, and supporting water conservation practices to reduce the CSO (Combined Sewer Overflow) burden on municipal sewer systems.
Contact: Marisa DeDominicis
Green Deeds
Green Deeds is dedicated to creating opportunities for residents, particularly middle-class and low-income citizens of Sayreville, New Jersey, to join the challenge to reduce our carbon footprint. GreenDeeds is dedicated to identifying and promoting better ways for residents to green their homes and neighborhoods and transforming Sayreville into a model green town. The group plans to eventually work with county and state leaders, experts and residents to bring the Sayreville model to other towns, and establish New Jersey as the nation’s greenest state.
Contact: Patricia Hartwell hartwellpm@greendeedsnj.org or Kristina Borjesson kborjesson@greendeedsnj.org
Green Edge Collaborative
Green Edge Collaborative is a grassroots organization founded in 2006 that looks to facilitate a connection between people and organizations, businesses and professionals in order to build awareness and inspire action towards a sustainable future. Together with the New York City community, the NYC pilot chapter of Green Edge Collaborative, Green Edge NYC, hosts citywide and neighborhood events, and support other organizations and events throughout the city that coincide with the group’s mission. Green Edge’s goal is to increase awareness on local sustainable resources, which will hopefully encourage people make more educated lifestyle choices.
Green Spaces Innovation Institute
Green Spaces Innovation Institute provides educational programs related to environmental entrepreneurship. Their first two programs are an internship program for high school and college students who want experience working with entrepreneurs who are building "green" businesses and a workshop series that provides for start-up companies with an environmental mission linked to helping communities become more livable. The Green Spaces Innovation Institute has grown out of Green Spaces, a shared work space to launch green ventures.
Contact: Roberto Rhett
Grounded Knowledge
Grounded Knowledge is an environmental education program that uses land as the central context within which to develop the whole learner - intellectually, socially, emotionally, and physically. Around the world, access to nature in cities has become limited by socio-economics. In many neighborhoods, the only available green spaces are abandoned lots, which are currently disappearing to development at an alarming rate. Students in Grounded Knowledge work with community members to turn available empty lots into viable, productive urban green spaces. This process transforms our connection to the land and how we talk with each other about our future from a monotone of gloom to a language of hopefulness. For everyone engaged in this enterprise from kindergartners to senior citizens it provides a framework for understanding critical lessons about the environment, community, food, health, and education itself.
Contact: Susan Weseen and Taura McMeekin groundedknowledge@gmail.com
Hudson River Valley Wine & Culinary Center
Hudson River Valley Wine & Culinary Center seeks to educate and inform visitors about Hudson Valley food, wine and spirits along with the region’s rich culinary traditions. Through its programming and collaborative efforts with growers and restaurateurs, the Center will promote the unique nature and value of the Hudson Valley’s food, spirits and culinary traditions.
Contact: Peter Fairweather
InfrastructureUSA
InfrastructureUSA is an online community focused on generating citizen dialogue about civil infrastructure — all areas, any topic and every viewpoint. Infra Views showcases publications, reports and articles from the most authoritative and respected nonprofit organizations, government agencies and think tanks. The Infra Blog generates thoughtful debate, and features exclusive interviews and articles from leading individuals. Show Us Your Infra! is the place to post stills, video and stories about local and national infra issues. Infra Polls offer an ongoing sample of public opinion. By bringing together concerned citizens, experts and policymakers, InfrastructureUSA.org provides an engaging and dynamic approach to civic engagement on the critically important issue of infrastructure.
Contact: Steve Anderson
Kensho Community
Kensho is dedicated to engaging young people in environmental issues. Kensho Community supports disadvantaged youth by providing an alternative education based on the principles of sustainability, collective social responsibility, and community building. To fulfill this mission, Kensho hosts Community Dialogue Sessions and develops innovative Urban Workshops that explore renewable energy alternatives, sustainability, and global climate change in urban environments. Kensho is a community of innovators in the pursuit of effectively addressing environmental and social challenges.
Contact: Teia@kenshocommunity.org
The National Young Farmers’ Coalition
The National Young Farmers’ Coalition will create the conditions for the success of today’s young farmers and that of future generations. The National Young Farmers’ Coalition will create social and networking opportunities for young farmers to work together on common issues, provide practical and technical assistance to through peer-to-peer training and information sharing, and develop policy recommendations that will enable the young farmers’ movement to thrive.
Contact: Lindsey Lusher-Shute
Rego Park Green Alliance
Rego Park Green Alliance, based in Queens, New York, aims for environmental sustainability and community empowerment. Rego Park Green Alliance has committed volunteers that have helped make it a leader in the Rego Park community. The group seeks to achieve their goals by installing green walls, creating public gardens, promoting edible lawns, painting public murals, and educating schools and residents in communities about environmental sustainability.
Contact: Yvonne Short yvonne@kidstechlabs.com
Stand for Land
Stand for Land promotes public awareness of local environmental concerns through education and distribution of informational material. They participated in a project with the Library and Teen Center that had students design artwork showing their vision for Marbletown which led to class discussions on the environmental issues facing the town.
Contact: info@standforland.org
Stewardship and Environmental Mapping (StEM)
StEM’s mission is to develop the ecological and digital infrastructure to both track and grow urban forest stewardship through interactive and open-source mapping of the socio-ecological dynamics of urban trees. S+EM’s mapping and data management tools empower New York City’s volunteer and professional environmental stewards to coordinate their efforts and share their activities. Stewards with complimentary interests and overlapping geographies can use S+EM’s platform to connect and share resources, facilitating a positive impact on the structure and functioning of urban ecosystems.
Contact:Timon McPhearson
Sustainability Practice Network
Sustainability Practice Network (SPN) is an interdisciplinary community of professionals, academics, and students interested in education, discussion, information, and idea exchange to further the goals of corporate sustainability and sustainable development. Through an active NYC-based forum and list server as well as ten annual panel discussions, SPN supports the growth of sustainability practice and bridges disciplines to advance sustainable development by drawing on the knowledge and expertise of its members.
Contact: Michael Gresty
Gardens, Farms & Food
Abingdon Square Alliance
Abingdon Square Alliance (ASA) maintains the safety, cleanliness, and use of Abingdon Square Park’s green space for the community. Recent restoration and continuing maintenance of the Park serves to strengthen community ties and foster fellowship in the neighborhood. Currently, ASA is working to more accurately represent the diversity of the lifestyles and talents of the community.
Contact: Lee Zimmerman
East 5th Street Beautification Project
The East 5th Street Beautification Project began two years ago when a few Brooklyn residents decided to turn a patch of dirt beside the Prospect Expressway into a thriving garden. Garbage was cleared and a row of evergreen trees and shrubs was planted to provide a buffer between the Expressway and E. 5th Street, which is entirely residential. In the rest of the garden perennials of all kinds were planted and wildflower seeds were scattered. Future goals for the project include removing a narrow strip of concrete along the Expressway exit ramp that runs for a block down E. 5th and planting a living willow fence that will provide additional buffering from the Expressway.
Contact: Kryssa Schemmerling
Union Square Native Plant Garden
Located in lower Manhattan's Union Square Park, the garden lies at the intersection of East 15th Street and Union Square West. It is the only greenspace along this stretch of sidewalk, nestled between a playground and dog run. See photographs of the garden on flickr. The garden itself features plants that historically grew wild in lower Manhattan, including wildflowers, ferns, shrubs and grasses that thrive in both shade and full sun. The garden's design draws inspiration from our regional plant communities. Consideration was given to ecological relationships (e.g., attracting birds, bees, and butterflies), seasonality, textures, and winter interest.
Contact: Marielle Anzelone
Turf
Turf provides community residents with opportunities for improving the health of their Parkchester neighborhood in Bronx, New York through participation in educational workshops on cooking and nutrition, access to sustainable agriculture, and stewardship opportunities at urban and rural farms. In addition to the creation of a local healthy, sustainable food system, residents also work to protect both urban and rural farmland.
Contact: Sharon Wong
Recreation & Arts
Friends of Bleecker Playground
Friends of Bleecker Playground is a group of local volunteers who have organized to support and improve upon a local playground and garden in the West Village of Manhattan. Initially, the group began as a project of the OSI-sponsored Abingdon Square Alliance, but they have recently evolved into a separate group with a different set of volunteers and an independent identity. The Friends of Bleecker Street Playground have begun to develop programs and activities that clearly link the enjoyment of the outdoors and nature with the urban playground environment. The first Bleecker Beach Bash was held in May 2008 to celebrate both the launch of the group and sand replacement for the increasingly unsanitary sandbox. The day had a Coney Island theme complete with carnival games, hot dogs, music, cotton candy, fake tattoo artists, and stilt walkers.
Contact: Catherine Willmott
No Time to Lose
No Time to Lose (NTTL) provides support for programs that highlight the environment through the creative arts. Previously, NTTL projects included a plan for the installation by the Japanese ikebana master Hiroshi Teshigahara, a community artists’ garden in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and a lecture series of artists, scientists, and economists at Harvard University. NTTL’s latest project, Science Play, will distribute science-based playground equipment (and curricula) to NYC parks and schools through one element of Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC for a greener, greater NYC.
Contact: Jane Clark Chermayeff
Alumni
Alaska Education Project
Alaska Education Project promotes healthy economies in southeast Alaska that are based on sustainable forestry. As a member of The Tongass Future Roundtable, the Alaska Education Project researches potentially reasonable timber harvest levels for the Tongass National Forest, the world’s last substantially intact temperate rainforest. In the past year, a major effort has also been made to address sustainable fish harvest levels in the halibut fishery.
Contact:Michael A. McIntosh
Concrete Safaris, Inc.
Concrete Safaris empowers youth to become healthy leaders through green exercise programs that enrich the mind, body, community, and environment. Through gardening, hiking, and health-based service-learning projects, Concrete Safaris addresses the growing disconnection between children and nature. In addition to their pre-existing garden and compost program, Concrete Safaris is designing and installing East Harlem’s first youth-led organic farm and developing three workshops by and for community youth. Additionally, they lead monthly hikes in regional mountains, including Harriman State Park, the Catskills, the Shawangunks, and the Delaware Water Gap.
Contact: Sharon “Mac” Levine
Good Growth Columbia (GGC)
GGC promotes and maintains open space protection and green growth principles in Columbia County, New York through emphasizing education and outreach to both the public, local governments and the state legislature. Currently, GGC is assembling a redevelopment plan for the Hamlet of Slaverack based on Town’s draft comprehensive plan and a smart growth philosophy.
ioby.org
ioby.org is an online, microphilanthropic initiative that enables New Yorkers to learn about, fund, and engage with local environmental projects. Projects on the site, from river cleanups to green building upgrades, are created and posted by all types of organizations - environmental NGOs, community and church groups, neighborhood associations and concerned citizens. Online, groups describe their projects, and people can choose to fund them or volunteer, so that we might better enjoy the places where we live, work and play. ioby.org is currently completing its website and anticipates going live in March. The three co-founders are graduates of the Yale School of Foresty & Environmental Studies master's programs.
Contact: Erin Barnes
Hudson Basin River Watch
The Hudson River defines Eastern New York State, running 315 miles from Lake Tear of the Clouds perched over 4,000 feet up on the southwest side of Mount Marcy in the Adirondacks, all the way to the Battery at the southern tip of New York City.
Hudson Basin River Watch provides hand-on science education to middle and high school students, and mobilizes youth and other volunteers to help monitor the health of rivers through a coordinated network of schools and community partners. After 10 years as a sponsored project of OSI’s Citizen Action Program, Hudson Basin River Watch recently applied for and received its own 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status and is now transitioning to an independent organization.
Contact: Doug Reed
RelightNY
RelightNY was started in 2006 by teenager Avery Hairston and friends at the Collegiate School in New York City with the idea of giving energy-saving light bulbs to families in need. Using donations from individuals and corporations, the teens buy compact florescent light bulbs, which use less electricity and last longer than regular bulbs. Then they scout out residents of low-income housing projects who need the help. So far, they’ve delivered over 20,000 compact fluorescent light bulbs to 2,500 families.
Contact: Sara Levinson
World Ocean Observatory (W2O)
World Ocean Observatory (W2O) provides a universally accessible, Internet-based place of exchange for information and educational services concerning the ocean and its implication for the future of human survival. The group’s website maintains a directory of over 20,000 ocean-related organizations, collects and evaluates educational resources and curricula on-line, and presents proactive educational services, information, and research to classrooms around the world.
Contact: Peter Neill
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