Comments on: Moving Mountains…Okay Maybe Just One Building

By: Should I Become an Eco Hall Monitor? | Organic Needle

Should I Become an Eco Hall Monitor? | Organic Needle — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:48:52 +0000

[…] on the collective ecopower of modern communal livers..aka..apartment dwellers. Awhile back I too considered the positive side of compact living and certainly have plenty of opinions and ideas for what I […]

By: organicneedle

organicneedle — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:48:50 +0000

Allie-I have some container gardening questions for you. I’ll have to come visit you at your blog.

Beth-It doesn’t sound negative at all. It is exactly what I want- to trouble shoot BEFORE presenting to the board and house committee. I had no idea about the #5/China issue. I will def. look into what Park Slope Co-op does with them. Mailing them might be easier anyway.

The building is pretty friendly, but…I would have to have approval before anything could be posted. That is a big rule here too. In the past, people have put up some pretty offensive notices. One started with ,”To all the pigs….”
I always wonder who posted that one….and if I was one of the piggies.

By: Beth aka Fake Plastic Fish

Beth aka Fake Plastic Fish — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 06:27:20 +0000

Living communally is a great way to start. While a lawn might be the color green, it’s not so green for folks to spread out in their own houses with their own individual lawns to keep watered.

Your ideas are great. One thing I’d advise about the #5 plastic collection is to send them to Stonyfield if you can rather than to your local recycler unless you know for a fact that they are not just getting shipped off to China. Terrible things happen to people from plastic waste in China these days.

I love the idea of challenging the people in your building. Just be sure to be tactful about it. Start with the people you’re already friends with. One of my readers practically got evicted just for hanging signs on the recycling bins letting people know what to put where.

This comment sounds negative. It’s not meant to be. Go for it!

By: organicneedle

organicneedle — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:55:39 +0000

2 or 3 years ago one of the board members talked about an incentive program the city was offering to bring CFLs into the building on a wide scale at a discount. (We have 100s of lights that are on 24/7- basement, laundry room, lobby, halls.) Once the share holders, the apartment owners, heard that an initial investment would be required they all started squawking. I am hoping that now that more is known about them, and that our maintenance bills and personal electric bills have gone through the roof, people might be a tad more willing to listen to what the city will offer us. Bloomberg is really pushing for a greener NY so now might be the perfect time to get some goodies.

By: Erin

Erin — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:07:27 +0000

Dude. These are all AWESOME ideas! You have got some serious buying power with 120 other apartments! Bet you could get HUGE DISCOUNTS on things like cloth bags, CFLs, Kleen Kanteens… you name it.

Also? FYI… NatureMill makes an indoor composter, in case you can’t compost outside.

By: Allie

Allie — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:57:29 +0000

Your ideas are wonderful! I love the idea of an apartment building freecycle drive.

This year, I’m tearing up the yard to garden, but the past years I’ve done container gardening. You’d be amazed at what you can get to grow in pots and odd containers. It’s pretty cool. I had cukes, herbs, a small tomato plant, and some peppers going strong last year.