Merry Christmas and Happy Soon-To-Be 2024, UESiders!!

And for once, we might actually achieve the brievity we promise from time to time!!

But for sure, the emphasis as we close out ’23 will be on good news!!

As in…  

The East Midtown Greenway actually opened this past Tuesday!!

(Even better:  Turns out it was more than worth waiting for!!)

Then and a day later this from Lower East Side Ecology Center hit ye olde email inbox…

“Today, we are thrilled to announce that @mill and others have donated $350,000 in emergency ‘stop-gap’ funding to help main community composting at Lower East SIde Ecology Center, Big Reuse and Earth Matters!!”   (If you’re  not familiar with these great orgs and all the green they do, check them out!!)

So…

Let us now hope that others and/or entities of means and green belief will step forward to financially support collection at our Botanical Gardens and all other presently unfunded NYC compost collection sites!!

And…

In the unlikely event you’re not be one of the 47,000-plus folks who’ve already signed the “Save Community Compost” petition, time to join the righteous pile-on and just click here!! 

With that…

And wishing one and all best holidays and great 2024, we’ll be giving ourselves some vacay time the next couple of weeks!!

Here’s to the greenest ever New Year,

UGS

Eco Fact of the Week:  More than 58,300 NYC Christmas trees were chipped and turned into mulch for our trees and gardens last year!!  Let’s top that number this time ’round!!

Eco Tip of the Week:   Turn that fading Christmas tree and/or withered  wreath compost on…

Saturday & Sunday, January 6th & 7th:  Mulchfest 2024
Carl Schurz Park, 86th Street & East End Avenue, 10am-2pm

Just  remember to remove all lights, ornaments, wire and netting before dropping that tree/wreath off!!  Mulchfesters’ll also be rewarded with their very own bag of mulch for use around, say, a deserving street tree on their block!!