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Tuesday, March 24th Community Church of NY 40 East 35th St. 6:30pm Join the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal NY State effort to put pressure on Cuomo this year to close the remaining coal plants in NY State while making sure the people who live in those towns are taken care of, and putting in place the first offshore wind turbines off Long Island.

TerraCycle Collection is happening! FEBRUARY 28th 2pm-4pm at Park Slope Food Coop.

Hello Coop Members, Want to help do your part to keep more waste out of landfills? Here is your second chance to bring items to a TerraCycle Collection. February 28th 2pm-4pm at Park Slope Food Coop. See you there! Here is what you can bring: 1) Plastic sandwich bags and small plastic bulk bags (NOT large roll or shopping bags)  2) Baby food pouches & caps (any brand) 3) Cereal bag liners (plastic liners from cereal, crackers, bulk cereal bags, and similar liners) 4) Energy bar wrappers (any brand) 5) Toothpaste tubes & caps (any brand) 6) Brita water filters & components NOTE: No need to clean, rinse, or remove stickers.

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...