ioby brings environmental projects to life, block by block.
For many city dwellers, the concept of urban farming seems contradictory. For others, it provides a way to grow fresh food in their corner lots, backyards, and windowsills. But for the people living at four supportive housing residences in Brooklyn, NY, urban farming has come to represent a new lease on life. The four [...]
Ahmed Tigani, a sound and light designer/technician, full time urban studies graduate student, and Vice President of the Manhattan Young Democrats, talks about the arts as a common denominator for organizing, the importance of persistence, and learning to live without all the answers. I’m from Ethiopia. My mother is Ethiopian and my father [...]
Shatia Jackson, 26, born and raised in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, was sick and tired of looking at the vacant lot on her street. “The lot has been there as long as I can remember…over twenty years,” Jackson told ioby last week. So, in August 2011, when 596 Acres put up a sign on the fence [...]
With February 14th in mind, ExchangeMyPhone has written this Valentine series for ioby highlighting a handful of people and organizations that perform labors of love for the borough’s wellbeing. ExchangeMyPhone is a website for anyone to sell (or recycle) their old phones and their blog is full of local, and global, green innovation stories. Hometown [...]
With February 14th in mind, ExchangeMyPhone has written this Valentine series for Ioby highlighting a handful of people and organizations that perform labors of love for the borough’s wellbeing. ExchangeMyPhone is a website for anyone to sell (or recycle) their old phones and their blog is full of local, and global, green innovation stories. The Bushwick Co-Op: [...]
With February 14th in mind, ExchangeMyPhone has written this Valentine series for ioby highlighting a handful of people and organizations that perform labors of love for the borough’s wellbeing. ExchangeMyPhone is a website for anyone to sell (or recycle) their old phones and their blog is full of local, and global, green innovation stories. What’s Cookin' in Brooklyn Like many fresh-out-of-school [...]
ioby stands for “in our backyards” and the belief that environmental knowledge, innovation, action and service begin and thrive at the local level. In 2008, we three co-founders, Cassie, Brandon and Erin, were moved by a mass of millions of people profoundly concerned about global environmental injustices and compelled to action like never before in [...]
A thirty-minute subway ride from downtown Manhattan, at the very northern end of the island in Washington Heights, is Highbridge Park. Like most New York City neighborhoods, Washington Heights has its fair share of bodegas, barbershops, and restaurants. But Highbridge Park’s crowning glory, Ft. George Hill, makes this neighborhood different. A rugged mass rising directly [...]
David Bragdon, Director of Long Term Planning and Sustainability for the City of New York, talks about the importance of big visions and small actors in his native NYC, and moving beyond regulatory convention to promote the common good. I’m from New York City. I was born in New York Hospital and lived there until [...]
Video is something everyone can use as a tool to create social change. Video for Volunteers 101 is designed to get you started creating video content that you can use to build awareness, raise funds and tell the world all about the great work you’ve undertaken. We’ll cover basic concepts of video creation, guidelines [...]
