Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Events

Livable streets advocates are needed to speak up against arguments by motorists who will complain about parking space loss required to stripe bike lanes on Prince and Bleecker Streets in SoHo.

Paul Mayer has more than a half century of service to the earth including 18 years as a monk, involvement with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil rights movement in the South, and work as a liberation theologian in the barrios of Central America. He has worked with Japanese atom bomb survivors, Pastors for Peace, […]

Lorna Salzman has been an environmental activist, writer, lecturer and organizer for over thirty-five years. During that time she has served as the regional representative of Friends of the Earth for nearly ten years, concentrating on anti-nuclear work and on coastal zone and wetlands protection on eastern Long Island. She initiated the Shoreham Opponents Coalition […]

Sowore Omoyele has been detained many times in Nigeria’s long struggle for democracy. His career of resistance began in 1989, when he took part in student demonstrations protesting the conditions of an International Monetary Fund loan of $120 million for Nigeria. In 1992 at University of Lagos, he led 2,000 students in protest against Nigeria’s […]

Student and faculty led panel discussion and lunch to follow. Who Killed the Electric Car? chronicles the life and mysterious death of the GM EV1, examining its cultural and economic ripple effects and how they reverberated through the halls of government and big business. The electric car threatened the status quo. The truth behind its […]

An outdoor "earth fair" featuring environmental organizations, environmentally friendly businesses, and educational and interactive exhibitions as well as speakers, including Councilman James Genaro.