EEAC’s 25th Anniversary Year, Chair’s Message | The
GLOBE Program | Kominski Fund Report | ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES—
Events and Exhibits: A series by the Van Alen Institute, new developments along the East River (talk by Joy Garland on a new park in Stuyvesant Cove, Thomas Paino on restoring natural habitats on both sides of the river); A conference by the Metro Forest Council, “Conserving Forests In A Changing Landscape: A Steward’s Guide to Urban and Suburban Forest Fragments”; Developments, planning, and funding options from over a dozen experts, “Open Space, Smart Growth and Water Quality: Making the Sound Connection” by the Long Island Watershed Alliance; The International Conference of the Society for Ecological Restoration in San Francisco; Youth CaN (Youth Communicating and Networking) 1999 at the American Museum of Natural History; Science Council of New York City’s Annual Conference;
Photo exhibits: “New York’s Floating Bathhouses” at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, and at the Museum of the City of New York, “New York Horizontal: Cirkut Camera Views by William Hassler” and “New York Vertical by Horst Hamann;”
Materials, Sources, People: Free
Home Water-Saving Kits to single-family home owners by
DEP; “Water Wonders” (in English and Spanish) and “Web of Watersheds” by the New York City Cornell Cooperative Extension; Booklet, “
Wetlands in the Watershed of New York City Water Supply System” by the US Fish & Wildlife Service; “
Harvesting Our History: A Botanical and Cultural Guide to Queens’ Chinese, Korean and Latin American Communities” published by the Queens Botanical Garden;
Four guides on biodiversity, “
Guides for Green Consumers,” from the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation of the American Museum of Natural History; “The View from Region 2,” a quarterly newsletter of the New York City office of the State Department of Environmental Conservation; Contact information for the five Borough Outreach Coordinators for the City of New York Parks & Recreation; New Center at Fort Wadsworth to open Spring 2000 at the Gateway National Recreation Area; The Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) is looking for people to lead adult tours and school groups; On sale at the BBG, “
Invasive Plants: Weeds of the Global Garden” by Dr. John M. Randall and Janet Marinelli;
NASA and
NSTA offering full scholarships for teachers
two weeks at NASA; The Staten Island Botanical Garden to open the first
Chinese Scholar’s Garden in the country; New York City Department of Sanitation added a mobile unit to its
war against graffiti; New York State’s
Open Space Conservation Plan available at
DEC and
OPRHP offices |
Biodiversity and Climate Change: Conservation in the Face of Uncertainty 4/30/1999 and 5/1/1999 |
The Business Community and Environmental Education by Millard Clements, Ph.D. | NYC Waste Le$$: A Seminar for Schools 4/15/1999 | EEAC Members Meeting and Workshop, “City Kids Get Green” at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden 4/15/1999
