ioby brings environmental projects to life, block by block.
That’s right! As of today, ioby is now officially national. Now anyone anywhere in the U.S. who has a big idea (or even a faint glimmer of an idea) for environmental change in his or her neighborhood can now use ioby to raise money, connect with local volunteers and share ideas to a community of [...]
Picture this: You are kayaking down a river, passing in and out of the shade of sycamore trees, drifting by the occasional snowy egret. Every once and a while, you identify a ripple in the water as the movement of a carp flitting past your boat. Occasionally, you hear an 18-wheeler screech to a halt [...]
Boston, 2050: Diverse, mixed-income neighborhoods are critical parts of a bicycle throughway that traverses the entire city, thriving bike shops are staples of every community, and bike racks are proudly featured outside of every business across the region. Thanks to a group of high school students in Beantown, this future is not so far-fetched. Chain [...]
Will Smith is no longer the freshest thing to come out of West Philadelphia. Sorry. Had to. Since 2006, the Mill Creek Farm, founded by Johanna Rosen and Jade Walker, has been providing its local community with fresh, organic produce galore. Located between the major commercial corridors of Market Street and Lancaster Avenue, this formerly vacant [...]
This is the first in our online video series portion of Recipes for Change, our online and hard copy toolkit designed for urban environmental leaders to share their knowledge and expertise with others. ioby’s platform is designed to be a place for community-driven, community-funded environmental projects as well as for knowledge sharing. We hope you [...]
For more than two decades, 143 Stockholm, an NYPD-owned vacant lot, was a neighborhood dumping ground and an ideal growing site for Ailanthus altissima, foul-smelling trees infamous for thriving in urban wastelands. Laying in between boarded up buildings, the 5,000 square feet lot is located in Bushwick, Brooklyn, a largely Latino community where access to [...]
My name is Stacey Ornstein, and I think I hold a lot of titles. I’m president of the Astoria CSA, or community supported agriculture. We connect our farm to the local community and we do a lot of educational programming, free to the community. In my professional life, I teach cooking to elementary school kids [...]
Are you an art and nature enthusiast? If so, you should pencil in the first-ever Brooklyn Greenway Initiative Gallery opening on Saturday April 14, 2:00-8:00PM! The show will feature English-born ceramic artist Kathryn Robinson-Millen, who draws inspiration from observing and drawing natural and man-made forms such as rocks, pebbles, plants, earthworks and stone monoliths. Thirty-percent [...]
Tom Finkelpearl, a self described ‘Public and Cooperative Art Guy,’ is the Executive Director of the Queens Museum of Art. Here he discusses the power that artists have to draw a crowd and the Queen’s Museum’s work towards expanding and deepening social networking in the surrounding community. About a hundred years ago, Marcel Duchamp took [...]
Make your neighborhood worth showing off! Compost for Brooklyn, located on Newkirk Avenue and East 8th Street in Brooklyn, is excited to announce two upcoming street gardening workdays starting on April 15th at 10 AM! Come spend a few hours with neighbors, make new friends, and help beautify the streetscape. The final spring workday will [...]
