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Environmental Education Awards

BCEQ is soliciting nominations for its Annual Environmental Education Awards. The first award was initiated in 1987 by one of BCEQ’s founders, Helen C. Reel, to honor civic-minded Bronx educators who...

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From other pens… Fresh Direct: A Rotten Deal

Great Article on the topic! RottenFreshDirect Tom Angotti is Professor of Urban Affairs & Planning at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center, and Director of the Hunter College Center for...

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EPA Recommends New Recreational Water Quality Criteria to Better Protect...

News Release link here: EPA Recommends New Recreational Water Quality Criteria to Better Protect Public Health Release Date: 11/26/2012 Contact Information: Julia Valentine (News Media Only),...

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A walk down Stratford Avenue with Paul Mankiewicz

WALKS AND TALKS City of Soil: A Walk Down Stratford Avenue with Paul Mankiewicz Paul Mankiewicz is no ordinary biologist and plant scientist. As founder and director of the The Gaia Institute,...

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From other pens: Opposition to FreshDirect Project Grows to 34 Organizations

Opposition to FreshDirect Project Grows to 34 Organizations Sustainable South Bronx, Bronx Council for Environmental Quality and Green Worker Cooperatives Release Independent Policy Statements Against...

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Climate Central: Hurricane Sandy’s Untold Filthy Legacy: Sewage

Hurricane Sandy was one of the largest storms to hit the northeast U.S. in recorded history, killing 159, knocking out power to millions, and causing $70 billion in damage in eight states. Sandy also...

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NEW ACCESS TO PRES’EMERITUS’ BLOG ENTRIES THRU FACEBOOK

In accordance with ’2014 pedagogicaL rubrics of social and community activism, please read all my future BCEQ PRESIDENT EMERITUS’ Blogs on the BCEQ.org FaceBook Page:...

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BX CB 8 JOINT COMMITTEES MTG POSTPONES VOTE ON HR GREENWAY

February 26th, ’2014 7:00 PM This post was submitted by ic.

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PSYCOBIOLOGY ENLIGHTED

***At the risk of encouraging those among my readers, who have a suspicion that I am hearing voices in my head telling me what to do (that are not coming from my cerebral forebrain, let me set the...

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Movie: The Great Invisible – about the Deepwater Horizon

THE GREAT INVISIBLE October 27, 2014 In this thought-provoking documentary which impressed audiences and won the Grand Jury Prize at the SXSW Film Festival, Peabody Award winning documentarian Margaret...

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UnBLOGlievable! Taking the Park where our Popup Wetland sits

PROMISES, PROMISES: THE BRONX In what can only be described as the latest version of “ULURP – The Producers”, the re-sale of city owned property along the Harlem River Waterfront continues, aka the...

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Summer Associate through AmeriCorps VISTA – apply by 4/29/2015

Harlem River Working Group Summer Associate through AmeriCorps VISTA 5000 Native Plants capture pollutants Canoeing on the Harlem River   Job posted by: The Harlem River Working Group of Bronx Council...

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Pres Emeritus’ Tweets Unlimited

If you’ve been curious enough to have clicked on my Blog link, then I encourage you to take one more step and visit my Twitter Page https://twitter.com/ICLevenbergEnge There’s too many to read at one...

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HS TEACHING SATISFACTIONS

As you may know, I was a Biol.Teacher at Bronx HS of Science. It was an enjoyable career. The admin was generally supportive, and the students wanted to learn. I devoted most of my free time to...

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Using Parkland to build Housing – only in the Bronx!!!

Waterfront parkland for private use – if they get it in the South Bronx, you will get it too! An Open Letter to the Public: For more than twenty years, city leaders have twisted the arms of local...

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PRES EMERITUS’ CB4 HEARING STATEMENT – PRESENTED 4-15-017

Good Evening. I am IC from Bronx Council for Environmental Quality (BCEQ) I appreciate the opportunity to speak at this important Hearing, to address the Question of whether or not to Alienate the...

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Lower Concourse North Parks Sell Out

Known as having the worst air quality and highest asthma rates in the country, the South Bronx continually receives a failing grade from the American Lung Association. Nowhere in the City’s plans is a...

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President Bob’s Blog: 3 BODs on Bronx Power 50

The Bronx Council for Environmental Quality is proud to have THREE members of its Board of Directors named to the Bronx Power 50. This special issue of City and State Magazine issue recognizes “50 of...

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Earth Day Today Presidents Blog

BCEQ Earth Day Week 2020 Because the Earth Needs More Than a Day—and We’re Home Anyway Bronx Council for Environmental Quality did not let COVID-19 defeat it.  Our all-volunteer organization held its...

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Climate Central: Hurricane Sandy’s Untold Filthy Legacy: Sewage

Hurricane Sandy was one of the largest storms to hit the northeast U.S. in recorded history, killing 159, knocking out power to millions, and causing $70 billion in damage in eight states. Sandy also...

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