NYC LL19 created Solid Waste Advisory Boards (SWAB) to promote community input on #waste mgmt. Join us to advance sustainability in materials mgmt! #ZeroWaste
Brooklyn, NY
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Community composting is being restored—all because you stood up for it. Read my statement with @SaveNYCCompost here:
ALT New Yorkers spoke—and the City Council listened. With everything at stake, our city’s vibrant composting community stopped at nothing to fight back against the proposed mayoral budget cuts. They showed up in droves at rallies and press conferences. They testified at every committee hearing. They called their district offices. They signed petitions, wrote letters, and approached their council members in the street to demand restorations. It all mattered. Today, we are incredibly proud to announce that the Council will be restoring $6.245 million to community composting program and creating a new, more sustainable path forward for our community composting coalition.
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The future of our city’s sustainability is at stake. Mayor Adams’ proposed funding cuts for community composting pose a serious threat to the crucial work carried out by community compost organizations. This jeopardizes over 100 jobs and the critical work our community compost organizations do for a greener future.
Join us on Wednesday, December 6 at 12 PM, for a press conference and rally at City Hall Park. This is not just a gathering; it’s a rallying cry to preserve the foundations of our environmental initiatives.
Your support is crucial! We need YOUR presence to make a powerful stand, demand support, and protect our environment.
Can’t make it? Take action online. Sign our petition to save community composting! grownyc.org/petition
#SaveOurCompost
Brooklyn SWAB retweeted
🚨SAVE COMMUNITY COMPOST!🚨
Mayor Adams announced budget cuts that will end community composting programs across the city, including GrowNYC’s and we need your support!
Please sign our petition asking Mayor Adams to restore this funding and urge your New York City Council to advocate for this important programming. Sign here: grownyc.org/petition
No composting effort in NYC can succeed without a strong community composting network. We need your help more than ever.
Sign our petition by visiting grownyc.org/petition
Once you’ve signed, please share among your network to help spread the word!
Brooklyn SWAB retweeted
In person / Hybrid Manhattan SWAB monthly meeting With guest Ryan Torres - @bpca_ny Vice President
manhattanswab.org/events – at Manhattan, NY
Brooklyn SWAB retweeted
As fires continue to burn out of control, a senior Canadian official argued for weakening environmental targets because...we need oil for bike chains.
newyorker.com/news/daily-com…
Brooklyn SWAB retweeted
On July 12 at 7pm ET, our friends at @PlasticsBeyond are hosting a virtual convo about #plastics and the future of our #planet with environmental leader and author, Bill McKibben and Pullitzer prize-winning journalist, Elizabeth Kolbert. @enckj
RSVP: buff.ly/3XGIOlF
Brooklyn SWAB retweeted
Today, as hazardous wildfire smoke covers the region, @CMShahanaHanif, @KeithPowersNYC and I passed the Zero Waste Act. This is a major environmental justice victory for NYC and beyond! As a longtime compost activist, I was proud to lead the charge on this package!
Brooklyn SWAB retweeted
JOIN US (6/20): We & @ClimateMuseum are hosting a conversation featuring leaders from across the country who are building & advancing #EnergyDemocracy in their communities.
RSVP for Energy Democracy: A Conversation from the Frontlines 👉 bit.ly/EnergyDemocracyPanel
Brooklyn SWAB retweeted
Now:
on YouTube, streaming live:
Plastic Packaging and Food Ware:
Threats to Human Health
- a Teach-in, Cafeteria Culture’s Dr. Jenny Davies, MD MPH
hosted by @Manhattan_SWAB and @BkSWAB
CafCu Media youtu.be/_xvztpuP5hM
Brooklyn SWAB retweeted
PLASTIC = fossil fuels + chemicals
Bottom line: plastic is a public health emergency.
🔻Tiny plastic particles contaminate our soil, air, water, bodies.
🔻10,000 chemically/biologically active substances
Time to #breakfreefromplastic
Stay informed eventbrite.com/e/plastic-pac…
ALT Text reads: PLASTIC PACKAGING and FOODWARE: THREAT to HUMAN HEALTH, Tuesday, July 26, 6-7:30 pm EDT, hosted by the Manhattan & Brooklyn Solid Waste Advisory Boards (SWABs); Teach-in with Jenny Davies MD, MPH, Cafeteria Culture Public and Environmental Health Director. Square graphic with text shows human body outline with major organs as colorful cut-out, surrounded by small particles and framed with overlapping line drawings of single-use plastic items. A QR code to register for the teach-in is on the right side.
Brooklyn SWAB retweeted
Congrats to #NYC students who suggested a citywide #plasticfreelunch day to @NYCschools Offices of Food and Nutrition & Sustainability, who listened! Now we know it's possible! 1⃣ change leads to more.
⁉️What suggestions does your school have for next #plasticfree steps?
Brooklyn SWAB retweeted
More great news! GCF alum & @DavidPrizeNYC winner Domingo Morales and his @compost_power initiative are featured in today's @nytimes! We couldn't be more proud of Domingo & the difference he and his GCF alumni team are making across #NYC 💚🙌🏽 nyti.ms/3wxltpw #compost
Brooklyn SWAB retweeted
Please sign @GrowNYC’s petition to save their composting and recycling programs! There will be NO funding for these programs next fiscal year.
If we don’t act, these vital programs will disappear on June 30 due to @ericadamsnyc’s budget cuts. #saveourcompost
Sign @GrowNYC’s petition to save their zero waste programs from @NYCMayor’s budget cuts. grownyc.org/petition#newmode…
Brooklyn SWAB retweeted
We are very grateful to our allies, @NYPIRG @AllOurEnergy and @oceana and to the dedicated volunteers and advocates who helped us get the flawed EPR proposals out of the NY State budget!🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Brooklyn SWAB retweeted
Guest Essay: Reducing plastic pollution is too important to rush by @enckj (president of @PlasticsBeyond and former @EPA regional administrator) - nwsdy.li/3wzHuWh
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Please join us for an emergency organizing Zoom meeting at bit.ly/NYS-EPR-3-22 on Tuesday, March 22nd at 7:00 PM ET with special guest speaker, Assemblymember Steve Englebright, Chair of the NYS Assembly Committee on Environmental Conservation.
Brooklyn SWAB retweeted
Join us this Wednesday 3/16 to hear from @moontwerk, @rhookinitiative and @greencityforce on racial, environmental and waste equity. There will also be an opportunity for discussion in break out groups. Register: eventbrite.com/e/waste-envir…
Brooklyn SWAB retweeted
Just finished the planning meeting for this FREE @BkSWAB event I’ll be joining a panel for next week! Main themes are intentionality, community, healing, + direct action! Join y’all! FREE! Let’s talk waste + disrupting/combatting inequitable systems! eventbrite.com/e/waste-envir…
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Join us on Jan 25 at 7pm for an online outreach workshop to learn how to talk to your friends and neighbors about the Curbside Composting program. Help us spread the word on the benefits of composting! Sign up at makecompost.nyc/volunteer.
ALT two individuals standing in front of a orange "sign up for curbside composting" sign.