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March 22, 2016 Calling All Artists: GrowNYC Contest
Tell Our StoryWe are looking for artists to channel their inner environmentalist and create a two-dimensional work of art inspired by GrowNYC's work in NYC: think Greenmarkets, gardens, recycling, compost, habitat, ecosystems and more. We'll put your work up for a...
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Environmental Education
March 03, 2016 New Voices to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle!
The Recycling Champions Program is singing praises to MS 443K New Voices School of Academic & Creative Arts students. The New Voices Green Team hosted a recycling and compost assembly program as part of their 1st organics collection and recycling program in the...
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Greenmarket
February 20, 2016 Be a Greenmarket Market Manager!
Greenmarket is currently hiring seasonal market managers to manage our 53 Greenmarkets throughout the five boroughs. Click here for the job description, and read below for a first hand account of managing a Greenmarket from former Market Manager, Kathleen Crosby. ...
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Recycling
February 12, 2016 Environmental Ambassadors at NYCHA
Over the past year, an exciting thing has been happening: recycling is rolling out at NYCHA developments citywide. As a partner in community engagement, GrowNYC has provided recycling education at workshops and events, aiming to change the way more than 400,000 New...
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Community Gardens
January 07, 2016 5 Questions with Mike Rezny, Assistant Director of Open Space Greening
As part of our end of the year review, we caught up with Mike Rezny, Assistant Director of Open Space Greening at GrowNYC, to talk about the year in urban agriculture, all the new gardens we built, and what's on tap for 2017.For those that don't know, what does...
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Community Gardens
December 17, 2015 GrowNYC Builds 7 new gardens in 2015!
GrowNYC's garden program had an eventul 2015, full of new gardens, rejuvenations of existing spaces, and several innovative garden projects that help make New York a greener city.We built 7 new community gardens this year, giving the city 80,000 square feet of new...
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