Sign of the (hard/green) times? Have you noticed how going green means saving green? It’s great to see more and more flea markets popping up throughout New York City. Here’s a quick roundup of places where you can shop local and snag some real deals on furniture, household items, recreational gear, vintage clothing, your real McCoy collection and lots more. Score, have fun and keep good stuff out of the waste-stream.
MANHATTAN
- Hell’s Kitchen Flea with 3 locations: 10th Ave – lots of food vendors and trucks with good eats, too.
- GreenFlea – Columbus Ave & 77th St. (Don’t miss Ruth Pomerantz’ Designer Vintage under the basketball hoop).
- NEW: GreenMarket with fresh, local produce has moved to the Eastside of Columbus between 77-80th St – now on Sundays only. Link HERE for details and hours.
- Hester Street Fair (Lower Eastside) every Saturday 10a-6p Corner of Hester & Essex St. Amazing food, too.
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The effort to reduce our dependence on evil fossil fuels has driven researchers, scientists and engineers to explore a plethora of new fuel sources and technologies. One renewable source of clean energy that holds vast potential – wind power – has some creative minds looking to the sky – way up in the sky. High altitude wind turbines, like the Magenn Power’s air rotor designs (above and directly below) are tethered to a ground-based power grid have the potential to create lots of power with an investment in infrastructure. Magenn’s floating, helium-filled turbines create energy by rotating in plentiful, high altitude wind currents.
Joby Energy is developing a multi-turbine design which employs turbines to propel it into the air and then utilizes a combination of: a kite-like design, high altitude air currents and a circular flight path to stay aloft while the turbines generate wind power. (pictured below)
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It’s never too early to start a young whippersnapper on the road to becoming an environmentalist, marine biologist, or eco-fashionista.
This soft and plushy organic cotton onesie just may do the trick. It features a vintage image of a whale taken from an antique book. The image is surrounded by the original handwritten description of the illustration.
What price art? Only $15 at designer Anna Attard’s amelie jo Cargoh shop.
The Bank of America Tower in Manhattan, New York is currently the most energy efficient and environmentally friendly skyscraper in the world. Dwarfed only by the Empire State Building among the skyscrapers of New York, this billion-dollar giant on Sixth Avenue measures in at 1,200 feet tall. So, since we all know that such buildings tend to be energy guzzlers, what makes this one such an ecological powerhouse? (more…)
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