Responsible Consumption Resources and Links
Foraging Workshops with Wildman Steve Brill
Savor A Mindful Eating Book by Thich Nhat Hanh
IOBY (In Our Back Yards)
ioby connects donors and volunteers to environmental projects in their neighborhoods to inspire new environmental knowledge and action in New York City.
GreenEdge NYC Collaborative
Green Edge Collaborative NYC is a social network that connects people with businesses, organizations and the resources they need to build a sustainable future. We do this by hosting our own city-wide and neighborhood events, highlighting other events in the city and through this online network.
Brooklyn Green Team
A team of Brooklyn superheros dedicated to reducing our environmental impact and inspiring others. POW. YOU’VE BEEN GREENED.
Sustainable Flatbush
Sustainable Flatbush brings neighbors together to discuss,
educate, and advocate for sustainable living
in our Brooklyn neighborhood and beyond.
Triple R Events
Triple R Events is a project of Lynne Serpe and Robyn Sklar Nelson. We are long-time Green Party members who don’t just vote green – we live green. We organize monthly green events in LIC/Astoria that are fun and educational, not boring and preachy.
Freegans
Freegans are people who employ alternative strategies for living based on limited participation in the conventional economy and minimal consumption of resources. Freegans embrace community, generosity, social concern, freedom, cooperation, and sharing in opposition to a society based on materialism, moral apathy, competition, conformity, and greed.
Greenopia
Greenopia provides consumers with high quality information to help them reduce their impact on the environment through their daily purchasing decisions. Greenopia publishes extensive green business directories, product directories, and brand directories, as well as offering a growing community, news articles, blogs, and tips to help everyone eat, shop, and live green.
Lower East Side Community Center
The Ecology Center works toward a more sustainable New York City by providing community-based recycling and composting programs, developing local stewardship of green space, and increasing community awareness, involvement and youth development through environmental education programs.
Wiser Earth
WiserEarth is a free online community space connecting the people, nonprofits and businesses working toward a just and sustainable world
New York Interfaith Power & Light
Our mission is to support congregations of all faiths in their actions to curb global warming and protect the sacredness of the earth.Our Vision: NYIPL will lead, advocate, and serve as a primary resource for NYS faith communities to actively respond to global warming. Our geographically and religiously diverse, actively engaged Board of Directors and membership will facilitate the establishment of local leadership and networks, link resources, strategies, and events, and collaborate with faith and secular communities throughout the state. Every congregation or faith-based organization in New York State is welcome to join our interfaith effort.
Local Independent Bookstores in NYC (such as Bluestockings)
