Dear friends,
NYC is now making plans to bring back curbside composting this fall and you can sign up to be notified when the sign-up form is available. So yes, you’re signing up to indicate that you want to sign up. According to the Sanitation Department,
[t]he program is open to both 1 and 2-family homes, along with apartment buildings. If you are in an eligible neighborhood, we will notify you when service will start in your area. If you do not live in an area where the service is being offered, we will let you know about opportunities to bring your food scraps to a drop off location or how to compost at home. We want to hear from everyone interested in Curbside Composting as it helps us make the case to expand this service to more neighborhoods.
The map on the web page lacks a key, so it isn’t entirely clear which areas are eligible for service, but I’m guessing that orange areas are eligible and yellow are not.
The bold type above is mine. The city needs to hear from New Yorkers in every neighborhood.
Please indicate that you want to sign up for curbside composting.
If you need to convince someone that composting is meaningful, here’s a great video.
A giant sinkhole opened up on E. 89th Street in Manhattan yesterday, leading to service disruptions of power and water to some neighboring buildings. A few days before, another crater nearly swallowed two parked cars on Riverside Drive.
These are not just metaphors. The ground has shifted beneath us and we are under threat from dangerous changes in our environment. We need to advance legislation to address the climate crisis at both the state and federal level.
The Climate & Community Investment Act (CCIA) is still viable. The bill (S.4264A/A6967) is a critical piece of legislation designed to make corporations pay into a Community Just Transition Fund, based on their greenhouse gas emissions. Those funds will be used to invest in infrastructure to protect frontline communities and facilitate green transportation and manufacturing.
Call the Speaker & Majority Leader to tell them that we need the Climate and Community Investment Act! A script is provided!
Here’s a tool to help you tweet at your Congressional Representative to promote the THRIVE agenda to “transform, heal, and renew by investing in a vibrant economy.” All you need is a Twitter account.
Tell your representative to go BIG on climate, care, jobs, and justice.
No Twitter account? No excuses. Make the calls:
Go to call4climate.com and make the two calls to your US Senators. Then tell at least three friends to do it.
The Interior Department approved about 2,500 permits to drill on public and tribal lands in the first six months of the year, according to an Associated Press analysis of government data. That includes more than 2,100 drilling approvals since Biden took office January 20.
New Mexico and Wyoming had the largest number of approvals. Montana, Colorado and Utah had hundreds each.
Biden campaigned last year on pledges to end new drilling on federal lands to rein in climate-changing emissions. His pick to oversee those lands, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, adamantly opposed drilling on federal lands while in Congress and co-sponsored the liberal Green New Deal.
The president needs to hear from us.
Sign the petition to tell the president to stop new fossil fuel projects.
And finally, a little inspiration for us: Joyce Beatty, Congresswoman from Ohio and chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, was arrested yesterday at a protest against the filibuster and for voting rights.
We don’t have to leave our homes to make good trouble today; challenge yourself to take three actions today.
Have a great weekend!
with love,
L