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The article discusses the People's Climate March, a collective demonstration held in New York City in which demonstrators advocated for political and social action to address climate change. Topics addressed include widespread participation in the march from a diverse array of demonstrators, as well as a United Nations (U.N.) summit meeting on climate change.

The article presents a feature of a New York City family that has decided to spend a year making a minimum impact on the environment. Colin Beavan and his wife Michelle Conlin have chosen to forgo paper products and riding on any vehicle that produces any carbon emissions. The couple plans to follow their new lifestyle for a year.

The article profiles the ABC Carpet and Home Company, which seeks to provide stylish and socially responsible products to buyers in its Manhattan store. Founder Paulette Cole discusses the success of ABC Carpet and Home, which generated sales of $80 million in 2005. The store does not carry exclusively socially equitable products, but does boast that 20 percent of its products are produced in a socially responsible way.

Focuses on Rockaway Beach in Queens, New York City, which has become the scene of a boom in surfing. Designation of a four-block stretch of the beach for surfing only; Description of the landscape; Proximity to the city; How most surfers go there for the waves; Comments of surfers; Role of the Surfrider Foundation, an environmental group for surfer enthusiasts; Indications of the sport's growth in the area; Reports of similar increases in surfers throughout the East Coast.

Discusses how environmentalists from the group Riverkeeper are tracking pollutants in New York City's waterways. Observations of John Lipscomb, a boat captain who patrols the Hudson River for the group; Use of helicopters to search for pollution; Details of a helicopter ride over the city taken by Lipscomb, lawyer Basil Seggos, photographer Giles Ashford, and pilot Yossi Benbassat.

Examines in the effect of New York City's environmental protection legislation on the debate surrounding the potential construction of a new football stadium in the West Side of Manhattan. Author's view that environmental impact statements are often used by community groups and green advocates to delay development by holding construction companies and government officials accountable for environmental damages; Report that construction companies often use environmental impact statements against each other; Influence of the environmental issue and environmental impact statements on development projects in New York City.

Fighting to prevent the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn from being labeled a Superfund site, city officials are proposing an alternative cleanup plan that they say would still be overseen by the Environmental Protection Agency but would take only about half the time a Superfund project would require. A Superfund designation, reserved for the country's most hazardous sites, allows the government to pursue parties responsible for the pollution and require them to pay for the removal of hazards. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

No one would mistake Timpson Place in the South Bronx for the cradle of a new environmental movement. This short street wedged between Bruckner and Southern Boulevards and East 149th Street is lined with small homes and a couple of brick warehouses. The largest tree -- or, more accurately, what remains of it -- is a Beetle-size hunk of roots and trunk that was yanked out of a construction site and dumped onto the sidewalk. Give Omar Freilla a chance, and he might find a use for that trunk. Inside a green-and-white warehouse on Timpson Place, he has been helping a small crew of urban recyclers arrange rows of doors, stacks of tiles, pallets of gravel and gallons of paint as they prepare for Monday's official opening of ReBuilders Source, where used and overstocked building supplies will be sold at deep discounts. He believes it is the nation's first worker-owned cooperative for reused building materials. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents information about the environmental demonstration Step It Up launched in Manhattan, New York City in April 14, 2007. The demonstration warned of the dangers of rising sea levels from global warming. According to Bill McKibben, resident scholar at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, do-it-yourself activities fit the unifying theme of the campaign.

The article presents information on the criticism faced by the environmental review of Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn, New York City. The report having the criticisms asks why there was no evidence to show that the project would not affect the response time of police and fire department. For the cost and benefits of the project, the reports says that the development corporation failed to account the costs of the subsidies provided to the project's developer by the city and the state.

Relates the author's views about the Trout in the Classroom program of some high school students in Bronx County, New York.

Reports on the rapid development of the last frontier of New York City which is the southern tip of Staten Island. Country area where horse barns abound with marshes and rare plants which is being devoured by development; Creation of the "Coalition to Save Staten Island" by residents hoping to save what is left of the natural part of the island; Comments from James P. Molinaro, the borough president who feels tougher zoning laws will prevent overpacked and unsightly development; History of the borough's growth; Environmentalists who seek to protect 33 sites.

Focuses on a social movement called Critical Mass, a bicycle ride that takes over the streets of New York City in a demonstration of bicycle power aimed at promoting nonpolluting forms of transportation. Report that the rides have become political as the cyclists clash with the Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg administration; Use of force by police in an attempt to control the demonstrations; Promotion of Critical Mass by the environmental group Time's Up!; Claim that the point of the ride is to show the benefits of cycling and to promote cyclist safety; Report that the ride turned into a demonstration against President George W. Bush during the Republican National Convention of 2004; Discussion about whether Critical Mass needs a permit.

Reports on the capture of nine cyclists and forty bicycles as about a thousand cyclists hit the streets in the monthly Critical Mass bicycle protest ride to help limit pollution in New York. Details of the protest; Use of power saws by the police to cut the chains securing bikes to sign posts; Reason of the arrest.

Examines the impact of transplanted city dwellers on New York's Hudson Valley. Comments of Lawre Stone and husband Dan Devine, who moved from Brooklyn to Ghent on their conversion to earth-friendly living; How these so-called organic professionals, or oppies, are leading a movement of former yuppies who have embraced an organic lifestyle; How many of them are keeping their careers out of necessity; Lifestyles; How the influx has driven up property costs and created friction with native residents; Topic of green living.

Reports on the release of an environmental statement in New York regarding the redevelopment of the World Trade Center site. Concerns on the impact of redevelopment activities on animal life in the area; Approval of the environmental statement by the board of Lower Manhattan Development Corp.; Urgency of the environmental statement.

Focuses on the work of Tessa Huxley, the executive director of the Battery Park City Parks Conservancy. Description of her work day; Her days as an environmental protection activist; Oversight of various parks, gardens, promenades, and monuments; Her $6 million annual budget; Maintenance and pest control; Proximity to the sight of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center,.

Reports on the research of meteorologists studying how global warming and climate change over the coming century will affect people and their health differently depending on where they live. Details of the research done by the New York Climate and Health Project; Impact of various factors of urban and suburban communities surrounding New York City; Ability of cities to trap radiant energy and compound the complications and costs of the summer season; Future of smog; Response of environmentalists; Comments from researchers.

Discusses an emerging environmentally-conscious style of building construction commonly called living "green." Focus on the Solaire apartment building in Battery Park City, New York; Innovations which include air filtration systems, energy-saving appliances, nontoxic paints, solar panels and more; Marketing problems for intangible amenities; Target group which is unaware of the options and so does not request them; Views of people who are living "green.".

Comments on environmentalism and the Arrow Reuse Center for Building Materials in Long Island City in the Queens borough of New York City. Discussion of the idea of urban ecology in recycling building materials; Background on Nicole Tai who founded the nonprofit company; Effort of Spencer Evans to introduce the reuse concept to the Broadway theater market; Views of Tai and Evans on conservation of resources; Description of building insulation made of blue denim which was made by Bonded Logic, a company in Arizona, and distributed by a Bronx company, ECO New York; Indication that Urban Ore in Berkeley, California is a profitable business.

Reports that New York's Court of Appeals upheld a ruling that the administration of governor George Pataki had acted illegally in racing to install so-called minipower plants around New York City without conducting environmental reviews. Implications of the ruling; Role of the New York Power Authority in studying the environmental and health effects of the plants; Discussion of pollution from the plants.

Focuses on the debate over constructing natural gas turbines on New York City's waterfront properties. Thought of environmentalists that the turbines would ruin the waterfront and devastate low-income communities with pollution; Suggestion that the government should provide an incentive to communities for building the turbines; Idea that land should be sold to private groups, who would monitor such projects more closely than the government.

Reports on the return of the music and environmental festival Clearwater's Great Hudson River Revival in New York, New York. Why the festival was relocated from the river; Recovery of the river from pollution; Description of the festival.

Reports on Larry Bloch's offer to sell his Wetlands Club in New York City. Bloch's desire to find a buyer who will maintains the club's environmental and social traditions.