Build it Green
From Nonsense NYC:
Build It Green, is New York City’s only nonprofit retail outlet for salvaged and surplus building materials; it is co-sponsored by Habitat-NYC and the Community Environmental Center (CEC). The ReStore Warehouse sells salvaged and surplus building materials and helps keep perfectly useful material out of the landfill. Volunteers are needed to keep the warehouse at its best and to help us continue our work of salvage and re-use. Come out to Astoria and enjoy good company, coffee and bagels, and a whole lot of dusty warehouse organizing and cleaning.
Build It Green Warehouse
3-17 26th Ave. (corner of 4th St.)
Astoria, Queens
www.bignyc.org
12-4 pm
This is community action at its some of its best. Pure genius! I wish I had known about this ahead of time because we’ve already made plans for tomorrow (including stopping by Earth Day New York), but I signed up for their volunteer mailing list, and I urge you to do so, too, if you’re local. Green housing should not be a privilege, but a basic human right, and we need to find ways to build healthy communities cost-effectively, especially in low-income neighborhoods. (The use of toxic PVC materials is widespread in the construction industry—including Habitat for Humanity—because of its affordability. But no matter how you spin it, it’s still class discrimination.) For the rest of us, a nonprofit store like this is a great way to build without contributing anything new to the waste stream, so this is one of those rare occasions where I tell you to GO NUTS SHOPPING. (But don’t get too loco, because I don’t know if I can rustle up your bail money without severely disrupting the space-time continuum.)
green LA girl said,
April 15, 2006 at 12:48 am
Darling witch — I have to say I’m super impressed with your green posts lately! When I first started reading The Worsted Witch, I have to admit it was more cuz of the nifty illustrations. But now, damn girl, you’ve seriously becoming like the go-to source for green stuff in the big apple! Much love and lots of urban solidarity from the west coast :)