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Parks and public plazas are typically urban escapes you'd expect to find at street level, but when your neighborhood hosts a league of industrial warehouses, wastewater treatment plants, and sits along one of the most polluted...

Reading, writing and 'rithmetic may have sufficed in the past, but nowadays there are many more factors - like health and and environmental awareness - that come into play in a child's education...

Attention New Yorkers! The country's largest eco-event is coming to town next month, and you're invited. We're giving away 100 FREE tickets to Green Festival NYC, a showcase of over 300 sustainable brands, and it's easy to...

Green Festival, America's largest and longest-running eco-event will be returning to NYC on April 26th and 27th. The show will have a marketplace featuring over 300 green products from food to clothing to home goods, as well...

New York City's Ink48 Hotel has taken poolside dining one step further by letting customers enjoy their meals inside of a repurposed pool. Called Pool Farm, the unique culinary experience even features veggies picked right...

The New York City mayoral race has been heating up with candidates making their final attempts to woo voters before the primary election next Tuesday, September 10th...

Rendering courtesy of Related Companies Zaha Hadid is the latest celebrity architect to design a building along NYC's famous High Line park. The luxury condo at 520 West 28th Street in Chelsea will be the Iraqi starchitect's...

They might look more like Star Wars AT-ATs than bathrooms, but these new flood-proof, prefab beach buildings are causing quite a splash at several NYC beaches...

Rendering courtesy of Related Companies Zaha Hadid is the latest celebrity architect to design a building along NYC's famous High Line park. The luxury condo at 520 West 28th Street in Chelsea will be the Iraqi starchitect's...

If you've always dreamed of having a little herb garden in your kitchen, here's a video DIY from our friend Summer Rayne Oakes that can bring that fantasy to fruition today...

If you’ve always dreamed of having a little herb garden in your kitchen, here’s a video DIY from our friend Summer Rayne Oakes that can bring that fantasy to fruition today...

Some people collect stamps, other people collect cats. Summer Rayne Oakes collects plants – in a big way! The Brooklyn-based model/activist/botanist has transformed her apartment into a veritable greenhouse filled with...

Winter blues got you down? Why not let these greens perk you up? We’ve put together a slideshow of vertical garden eye candy for you that will make you forget all about the cold weather and have you feeling like spring...

New York City has been working diligently towards its planNYC goal to reduce carbon emissions by 30% by 2030. But that number is not nearly enough according to recent studies that show that countries need to reduce emissions...

2012 was a crazy ride for New Yorkers, and we saw everything from the good (phone booths repurposed into miniature libraries) to the bad (Hurricane Sandy crippling our city) to the just plain ugly (a zombie pumpkin’s...