The Nature Conservancy in New York - Nature Conservancy Spring Gala to Focus on Healthy Forests, Green Buildings as Key to Climate Change Annotated
Goal is to slash deforestation, which accounts for up to 25% of global carbon emissions each year
New York, NY — April 1, 2008 — U.S. Treasury Secretary and former Chairman of […]

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Applying Gandhi’s Ideas to Climate Change - New York Times Annotated
Our Towns

Susan Stava for The New York Times
Alison Broda practicing Zen archery at the Garrison Institute on Friday. It is a discipline combining intention and action, focus and carry-through.
By PETER APPLEBOME
Published: March 30, 2008
GARRISON, N.Y.
 
The idea of the Zen archery is to combine […]

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The Magical Painting of Poussin - The New York Review of Books Annotated
Volume 55, Number 6 · April 17, 2008
The Magical Painting of Poussin
By Andrew Butterfield
Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
An exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 12–May 11, 2008.
Catalog of the exhibition edited by Pierre Rosenberg and Keith Christiansen.
Metropolitan […]

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Ecologist Maps Manhattan of 400 Years Ago : TreeHugger Annotated
 

 
hear Dr. Eric Sanderson speak about the Mannahatta Project-
 
he told us that Landscape of New York City 400 years ago would have rivaled that of Yellowstone or Yosemite today.
Manhattan, or what the Lenape Indians called Mannahatta, was more biologically diverse than either of those two […]

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Ask About Nature in New York - City Room - Metro - New York Times Blog Annotated

Ask About Nature in New York

Leslie Day feeding seagulls from her houseboat. (Photo: Gabriele Stabile for The New York Times)

Leslie Day, the author of “Field Guide to the Natural World of New York City” (Johns Hopkins University Press, […]

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