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Thanksgiving and the Pursuit of Happiness

a Thanksgiving story by Maira Kalman. You can read the full story here: Back to the Land

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Added by katie holten on November 28, 2009 at 5:18pm — No Comments

A HUNDRED BRONX TALES

source: Living on Earth YOUNG: The Grand Concourse is a broad, busy thoroughfare running north from Manhattan into the Bronx – and it turns 100 this month. But instead of 100 candles, the concourse has a hundred stories about its most loved trees. Each story is inspired by a particular tree, and told by some of the Bronx finest – from architects and historians to DJs and beekeepers. It's c… Continue

Added by katie holten on November 27, 2009 at 5:48pm — No Comments

Con Ed oil spill in the Bronx River

The following is an excerpt from a press release issued the the Bronx River Alliance Con Edison Substation Fire Causes Oil Spill on the Bronx River Oil in a 345,000-volt transformer caught fire just before 5:30 a.m. yesterday, November 4, 2009, at the Dunwoodie substation at 152 Kingston Ave., just west of the state Thruway and 1.5 miles from the Bronx River. Oil from the transforme… Continue

Added by katie holten on November 7, 2009 at 11:27am — No Comments

Designer Family Trees

IMAGE: Queen Cox, Greensleeves, and Fiesta apples growing on the same tree, available from Blackmoor. This story is by NICOLA TWILLEY | Published: NOVEMBER 5, 2009 on EDIBLE GEOGRAPHY I recently discovered the apple “family tree,” which combines… Continue

Added by katie holten on November 6, 2009 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Building With Trees

Roald Gundersen built his home and greenhouse using whole tree for structure and support. By ANNE RAVER ROALD GUNDERSEN, an architect who may revolutionize the building industry, shinnied up a slender white ash near his house here on a recent afternoon, hoisting himself higher and higher until the limber… Continue

Added by katie holten on November 5, 2009 at 9:10pm — No Comments

Car maker develops its own flower species

imagE: Toyota Flower source: Drive.com Toyota has created a new plant species designed to offset the CO2 created by its Prius assembly operations. By RICHARD BLACKBURN. Toyota has created two… Continue

Added by katie holten on November 2, 2009 at 10:40pm — No Comments

Free Halloween Fun In The Bronx

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Added by katie holten on October 22, 2009 at 3:31pm — No Comments

Tree Museum extended through January 3, 2010!

Due to popular demand the Tree Museum has been extended to January 3, 2010! Continue

Added by katie holten on October 14, 2009 at 7:33pm — No Comments

Tree-mendous 2009 Lecture!

Join MillionTreesNYC for their Tree-mendous 2009 Lecture Series! A discussion and gallery tour with artist Katie Holten Friday, October 23, 2009; 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Bronx Museum 1040 Grand Concourse at 165th Street, Bronx, N.Y. In celebration of its second anniversary, MillionTreesNYC… Continue

Added by katie holten on October 14, 2009 at 6:15pm — No Comments

Take all the Trees

"A tree museum?" I laughed into the phone one day last April. "Are you going to charge the people a dollar and a half just to see 'em?" "Of course not," the young woman said, sounding half offended. "It's free. It's an art project along the Grand Concourse this summer. We're marking a hundred trees with medall… Continue

Added by katie holten on October 6, 2009 at 3:08pm — No Comments

Culture Trolley

Wednesday, October 7, 2009. 5pm more info: Bronx Council on the Arts Continue

Added by katie holten on October 6, 2009 at 10:05am — No Comments

A Towering Landmark, Reduced to Sawdust

For more than six centuries, by some estimates, a magnificent white oak tree has loomed over Little Neck Bay in Queens. Believed to have been born in an open meadow before Columbus arrived in the New World, it had reached epic proportions by the time the neighborhood of Douglaston sprouted around it.… Continue

Added by katie holten on October 6, 2009 at 10:00am — No Comments

The South Bronx Art Scene in the 21st Century

Artists Talk on Art Presents: The South Bronx Art Scene in the 21st Century Friday, October 9, 7 - 9pm A panel discussion on how the Bronx art scene has emerged, submerged and changed many times over the last 30 years and how it has served as a model for coordinated community artistic efforts. The panelists are John Ahearm, artist; Holly Block, director of The Bronx Museum; Joe Lewis, dean of Alfred University's School of Art and Design; Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, artist and curator; Tim Rollins, ar… Continue

Added by katie holten on October 1, 2009 at 10:00am — No Comments

opening at Bronx Blue Bedroom Project

Bronx Blue Bedroom Project presents the work of artist Hector Canonge GC2 October 3 - 30, 2009 Opening reception for the artist: Saturday, October 3, 2-5 pm Bronx Culture Trolley on Wednesday October 7, from 5-8:30 pm… Continue

Added by katie holten on September 27, 2009 at 10:10am — 1 Comment

Podcast: Professor Lloyd Ultan, Bronx Borough Historian (Part 2)

Here is the second part of Bronx Bohemian's interview with Bronx Borough Historian Professor Lloyd Ultan:Bronx Bohemian

Lloyd Ultan in library (source: Bronx B… Continue

Added by katie holten on September 24, 2009 at 12:23pm — No Comments

Tree Stewardship Workshop

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Added by katie holten on September 21, 2009 at 5:20pm — No Comments

Have You Ever Visited The Broncks?

Look closely and with care, and you’ll find images of unexpected beauty even in a landscape that at first glance looks barren and blighted. As I cruised through the South Bronx in a tour bus during a travelogue called “The Provenance of Beauty” produced by the venturesome Foundry Theater, my eye locked… Continue

Added by katie holten on September 18, 2009 at 4:36pm — No Comments

Park(ing) Day

The Idea Park(ing) Day is an international event that reclaims parking spots and transforms them into engaging, people-friendly public spaces for one day a year. Park(ing) Day NYC is a New York City Streets Renaissance collaboration which supports the conversion of parking spots throughout New York Ci… Continue

Added by katie holten on September 17, 2009 at 10:07am — No Comments

The World's 10 Greatest Large Urban Parks (Seen From Above)

Everyone knows what a urban park looks like, right? It tends to be a parcel of green space in a sea of asphalt and concrete and glass. But, of course, there are innumerable variations on that principle. We thought it would be fun to take ten of the world’s largest, most famous, and most beautiful city parks… Continue

Added by katie holten on September 15, 2009 at 10:13am — No Comments

Waterpod in the Bronx

the TREE MUSEUM has been invited to make a presentation at the Waterpod this Saturday, September 12, 1-2pm. Waterpod arrived at its current docking location at the Concrete Plant Park in the Bronx on September 1, 2009. The park was originally an industrial concrete factory, that first started o… Continue

Added by katie holten on September 8, 2009 at 10:04pm — No Comments