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  • News ‘I thought we had more time’: how motherhood spurred a New Yorker’s fight against fossil fuels, theguardian.com (Dec 19, 2023)
  • News NYC launches free online therapy for teens, chalkbeat.org (Nov 15, 2023)
  • News This Northern Manhattan Wetland Has Faced Climate-Change-Induced Erosion and Sea Level Rise. A Living Shoreline Has Reimagined the Space, insideclimatenews.org (Aug 03, 2023) — In the process to create a climate-resilient city, the shoreline restoration of one of the largest remaining wetlands in Manhattan has succeeded due to community engagement and consistent stewardship. By Juanita Gordon
  • News Surviving the smoke-pocalypse 101: Californians offer advice to New Yorkers, theguardian.com (Jun 09, 2023)
  • News The Green Jobs Boom Is Benefiting the People Who Need It Most, reasonstobecheerful.world (Jan 10, 2023)

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This page is the beginnings of a portal for New York City community action, providing an introduction and overview. Other pages are listed in the navigation box towards the end of each page.

Networks and sustainability initiatives[edit | edit source]

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Stories of a Sustainable South Bronx: BEST Program Graduate José Pichardo
Authors: SSBXDONATE, Dec 29, 2010
  • Sustainable South Bronx
  • Change by Us NYC
  • planyc, is an effort released by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2007 to prepare the city for one million more residents, strengthen the economy, combat climate change, and enhance the quality of life for all New Yorkers. The Plan brought together over 25 City agencies to work toward the vision of a greener, greater New York. Since then, significant progress has been made towards the long-term goals set by the Plan.
PlaNYC specifically targets ten areas of interest: Housing and Neighborhoods; Parks and Public Spaces; Brownfields; Waterways; Water Supply; Transportation; Energy; Air Quality; Solid Waste; and Climate Change.
Over 97% of the 127 initiatives in PlaNYC were launched within one-year of its release and almost two-thirds of its 2009 milestones were achieved or mostly achieved. The plan was updated in 2011 and has been expanded to 132 initiatives and more than 400 specific milestones for December 31, 2013. (Wikipedia), GreeNYC

Ecovillages[edit | edit source]

  • Ganas, "community started on Staten Island in 1979. The original founders came together to form a self-selected extended family based on an intention to care for each other while sharing the work, having fun and addressing whatever problems arise, together. Open minds make it possible to talk together and understand each other better. Ongoingly, they are learning how to cooperate, care for each other and share resources."

Visions[edit | edit source]

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The Dryline – BIG’s vision for New York City
Authors: Holcim Foundation, Feb 4, 2015

Community involvement[edit | edit source]

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Choir! Choir! Choir! & Patti Smith sing "PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER" in NYC with Stewart Copeland
Authors: Choir! Choir! Choir!, Sep 19, 2019

BetaNYC, building a better tomorrow for all. "We are NYC's civic technology and open government vanguard. Since 2009, we have been leading elected officials to engage NYC's technology community, helping pass transformative open government legislation, and supporting NYC's civic oriented startups. We are America's largest civic technology and open government community." - Participatory Budgeting in New York City

Health and wellbeing[edit | edit source]

  • Free online therapy for NYC teens, talkspace.com, added 15:27, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

About New York City[edit | edit source]

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New York, often called New York City or simply NYC, is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each of which is coextensive with a respective county. It is a global city and a cultural, financial, high-tech, entertainment, and media center with a significant influence on commerce, health care, scientific output, life sciences, research, technology, education, politics, tourism, dining, art, fashion, and sports. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy, and is sometimes described as the world's most important city and the capital of the world.

With an estimated population in 2022 of 8,335,897 distributed over 300.46 square miles (778.2 km2), the city is the most densely populated major city in the United States. New York has more than double the population of Los Angeles, the nation's second-most populous city. New York is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the U.S. by both population and urban area. With more than 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York City is one of the world's most populous megacities. The city and its metropolitan area are the premier gateway for legal immigration to the United States. As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world. In 2021, the city was home to nearly 3.1 million residents born outside the U.S., the largest foreign-born population of any city in the world.

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Keywords us cities, ecovillages, visions
Authors Phil Green
License CC-BY-SA-3.0
Language English (en)
Related 0 subpages, 101 pages link here
Aliases New York City
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Created April 16, 2014 by Phil Green
Modified December 13, 2023 by Phil Green
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