It’s time that the State of New Jersey and even the federal government step in, before wide sections of the Palisades are degraded beyond ...Read more

Last month, the Communist Party USA unveiled a $1 million green renovation of its headquarters at 235 West 23rd Street in Chelsea. The AP called the space’s decor “more Macy’s than Marx,” though it does have a decidedly red theme as you can see in a video posted on the ...Read more

375 Pearl Street stands at the base of the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge and has been primarily a telephone switching center, most recently for Verizon, since it opened in 1975 to uniformly negative architectural reviews. (Paul Goldberger of the New York Times called the tower ...Read more

When the Sundance Channel wanted to break into the business of the “third screen” (the movie theater screen being first, TV being second, and computers, iPods and phones being third), they hired Isabella Rossellini to capture people’s attention. “I thought, ‘capture people’s ...Read more

Tishman Speyer’s loss is now the Related Companies’ gain. The MTA announced today that it has selected Related and Goldman Sachs to develop Hudson Yards into a $1 billion mixed-use neighborhood that will revolve around a central nine-acre grand plaza similar in concept to Tishman’s proposed ...Read more

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Earlier this week, the New York City Art Commission approved Rafael Viñoly’s design for the 49,000-square-foot 121st Police Precinct on Staten Island; the project aims to be Gotham’s first LEED-certified police facility. The Art Commission, which was founded back in 1898, serves as New ...Read more

NY Designs is a program sponsored jointly by the CUNY Economic Development Corporation and LaGuardia Community College. Housed on the seventh floor of one of LaGuardia’s buildings in Long Island City, the $6 million, 35,000-square-foot space opened in 2006 with a number of green design features, ...Read more

The announcement to resume building nuclear energy plants within five years reflected growing concern in Europe over the skyrocketing price of oil and energy ...Read more

Cameco, the world’s largest uranium producer, has told the Canadian nuclear regulator that its refinery might have leaked uranium, arsenic and fluorides into Lake ...Read more

The environmental group Riverkeeper had its 19th annual Shad Festival on Sunday, but this year it was missing one thing ...Read more

There’s no need to pay $4.99 for a bottle of cleaner with ingredients the company won’t name when you can make your own with well-known ingredients for ...Read more

The New York Observer reported earlier today that Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management firm has finalized its lease for 5500 square feet on the 48th floor of the Durst Organization’s Bank of America Tower, which expects to receive the first-ever LEED Platinum rating for a commercial ...Read more

New York City’s Parks Department could wind up destroying Ridgewood Reservoir, a teeming wildlife preserve on the Brooklyn-Queens ...Read more

Environmental advocates accused the European Commission of being soft on the auto industry by allowing a proposal to reduce noise from car and truck tires to exempt tires for sport utility ...Read more

Small businesses are trying to provide information to consumers about why their products are considered “green.” Nonetheless, there are few definite rules or ...Read more

Hospitals and clinics are among the most conspicuous energy consumers on the planet. The need for infection control introduces a fog of harsh chemicals that are rough on lungs as well as the wastewater stream. Air quality has to be monitored and changed frequently. And because hospitals never ...Read more

Papua New Guinea has been losing about 1.4 percent of its total forest cover each year, a new analysis ...Read more

With a surge in weather-related disasters and attendant costs, we need to declare a coordinated war on climate ...Read more

Time is running out for the Bush administration and Congress to take action to arrest the alarming decline of this country’s ocean ...Read more