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See you this Saturday January 24th from 2pm-4pm at Park Slope Food Coop Watch a new video about this TerraCycle Collection! Items you can bring: Snack and Cereal Bags Energy Bar Wrappers Baby Food Pouches Brita Filters, Pitchers and Packaging Plastic Sandwich Bags Small Plastic Bulk Bags

Happy New Year Fellow Coop Members,  In the past year, there were Climate Marches and Fracking Protests and "Governor Andrew Cuomo’s announcement  that he would ban high-volume hydrofracking across New York State was a game-changing position that surprised even the most ardent opponents of this controversial process for extracting natural gas. “We were stunned,” said Ramsay Adams, executive director of Catskill Mountainkeeper, which was one of the first groups in New York to raise the alarm about the dangers of fracking." Read more of this article on FRACKING updates HERE IN COOP NEWS: TerraCycle Collection at The Coop.   Today, TerraCycle is a highly-awarded, international upcycling and recycling company that collects difficult-to-recycle packaging and products and repurposes the material into affordable, innovative products. TerraCycle is widely considered the world’s leader in the collection and reuse of non-recyclable, post-consumer waste. The E...

From Bag Making event at Coop held by Environmental Committee.

Ilyana: What can we as the Coop Community do to help this cause? Wes: There’s a lot you can do. Take a look at the COMPENDIUM OF SCIENTIFIC, MEDICAL, AND MEDIA FINDINGS DEMONSTRATING RISKS AND HARMS OF FRACKING, compiled by the group Concerned Health Professionals of New York, and educate yourself as to the many reasons why fracking is impacting our health and environment. Make phone calls to Governor Cuomo asking him to ban fracking in New York. " The issue of health impacts from the buildout of infrastructure itself deserves a comprehensive Health Impact Assessment.We should be asking our elected representatives in Albany to make this happen now because the infrastructure buildout is already happening.  "    This is a critical issue that our state leaders need to be looking at more closely.  And take a look at where your money is, and vote with your dollars. If you have investments in companies that build pipelines or otherwise are contributing to our cont...

Worried about climate change? With the largest climate demonstration in history coming to our town next Sunday it’s a good time to think about how plastic contributes to climate change. Plastic use releases hundreds of millions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year – an amount that could be greatly reduced by recycling more plastic and finding alternatives to everyday plastic items that we really don’t need. Think about it the next time you’re in the coop pulling plastic bags off the roll for your produce or bulk items. Just by getting into the habit of reusing plastic bags or replacing them with cloth bags, each of us can decrease our personal contribution to climate change while we’re lobbying world governments to take the big, urgent actions needed to avert climate disaster. Want to make your own cloth bags? Come to the Coop Environmental Committee's Big Sewing Event, Sunday, November 9, beginning at noon in the community room upstairs at the coop.

At an Earth Day tabling event outside the Park Slope Food Coop, the PSFC Environmental Committee asks fellow coop members to share their shopping practices in the effort to minimize the use of plastic roll bags.

The vote to approve our  Proposal  to Reduce Plastic Roll Bag Use  has been scheduled for this Tuesday's February 25th General Meeting at the  Bishop Ford Central Catholic High School . Check out the Environmental Committee's new  video presentation , which examines why reducing our plastic footprint is so important for our community and our planet. Download our General Meeting Handouts for more information. Proposal Overview  (PDF) Why this Proposal?  (PDF) Hope to see you there!