“This cold weather and extreme snowstorm are not an exception to global warming, but an alarming indicator of it,” the author writes. “New Yorkers feel this global weirding phenomenon and…
More than 700 homes at Beach 41st Street Houses in Rockaway will switch to electric heating and cooling, which officials say will reduce pollution and offer more reliable service than NYCHA’s…
Applications are now open for the 2026 NYCHA Resident Climate Action Grant Program, which funds sustainability projects in the city’s public housing developments. Past winners scored money for community gardens,…
“The ASAP Act can deliver two things New Yorkers urgently need: lower bills for households and more clean electrons on an increasingly strained power grid.”
Advocates opposed to the casino say the 50-acre parking lot should be a climate-resilient park instead. “Floodplains could serve as green buffers that absorb stormwater, not as sites for massive…
“From a sustainability and environmental justice perspective, the question is not whether redevelopment should occur, but under what conditions and for whose benefit.”
Students from the Pratt Institute are teaming up with local community group Mothers on the Move to explore how hemp—a building material rarely used in housing—could help retrofit New York’s…
Dozens of public housing apartments will get plug-in induction ranges as part of the initiative, which aims to eventually shift 10,000 NYCHA homes off the use of polluting fossil fuel appliances.
“Nearly 70 percent of New Yorkers with steam heat report being chronically overheated during the winter. Tenants are uncomfortable and landlords waste energy.”
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