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TOD: Neighborhood

Posted by Glenn on July 8, 2007 - 9:38am in The Oil Drum: Local
Topic: Environment/Sustainability
Tags: new york city, sustainability, upper green side [list all tags]

Upper Green Side

Upper Green Side has grown over the past year and a half from a handful of local activists that I rallied together to start a few local food greenmarkets in the heart of the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Along the way, I learned quite a bit about how to become a neighborhood activist, work together with the local community board and build relationships with elected officials.

Now I'm proud to announce that less than a year and a half since founding a Upper Green Side, we are now an official 501c3 non-profit organization and can receive tax-deductible donations.

Upper Green Side is a non-profit organization that promotes awareness and action on local environmental issues in the Upper East & Upper West Sides of Manhattan involving sustainable food, clean transportation, energy efficiency, and waste reduction. We are building a healthy community and environment for our own well-being and generations to come.

This is a very exciting time for us as we will be planning our activities and securing different funding sources, but we plan that the bulk of our funds will come from private individuals at first.

While we don't have an easy online donation mechanism set-up yet, we are taking personal checks now at our PO BOX. Please send what can to us at:

Upper Green Side

PO Box 656

New York, NY 10028

Support TOD: Neighborhood, Become a founding contributor to Upper Green Side! We send receipts!!

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My Interview About Community Organizing

Posted by Glenn on April 8, 2007 - 9:48am in The Oil Drum: Local
Topic: Environment/Sustainability
Tags: community organizing, sustainability, upper green side [list all tags]

About a month ago, I was interviewed by a few videobloggers, Ryanne and Jay about my community group, Upper Green Side. This short seven minute video shows my responses to a wide variety of questions about neighborhood organizing, running efficient meetings and a few personal steps I've taken to make my lifestyle more environmentally sustainable.

After the interview we had a good conversation about Peak Oil. They had gone to a few meeting of the local peak oil community out in California and found it all way to dark and depressing. We agreed that you can't focus too much on the negative scenarios that might happen, but rather concentrate on the tangible positive steps you can take in your own community. It's not to deny the possibility that the worst might happen, but rather to do now what's possible to build a better future under any scenario. Their video series focuses on positive change that's happening around the country.

Check out this other great interview with local eco-entrepreneur, Eugene Lee, owner of Rolling Press.

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