Arrow, Environmental Group, Launches New Website

From an email I received:

We have just designed a new website and I'm proud to share it with you as a start to a greener year! I hope you will visit the site soon to sign up to our e-mail list . Also, please take a minute to forward news of ARROWONLINE.ORG to other people you know who are concerned about our environment and want to take simple steps to make a real impact, both locally and for the whole planet.

We are creating the site to be an ongoing "bulletin board" of information about recycling venues, opportunities and ideas of how to reduce your waste, and up- to -date information about ways you can participate in improving the parks and open spaces in your community. We will also feature event and program information for ARROW, NYC Parks and Sanitation, and other information for Western Queens.

Toxic Brooklyn

Williamsburg is our favorite whipping boy 'round these parts, but we do have friends who live there and in Greenpoint. And for running outside, McCarron Park is the closest option if you have a car.

Those of us on the wrong side of the tracks and on the edge of Sunnyside where it becomes Long Island City know how close we are to Greenpoint--and that smell. We might not want to associate ourselves with the values that Williamsburg/Greenpoint have come to embody, but the environmental issues that are affecting that neighborhood are close enough that we should care.

Watch this online doc to learn more.