Monday, April 5, 2010

Start your Green Engines

From A Brooklyn Life:

"The Carroll Gardens Greenmarket (on Carroll Street between Court and Smith streets) starts on Sunday,  April 11. It’s open from 8am to 4pm and includes my personal favorites Grazin’ Angus meats, Milk Thistle dairy, Consider Bardwell goat cheese, plus the grizzly fish guys from Seatuck Fish Company, and the absolutely beautiful maitake (and other mushrooms) from Madura Farms."

Don't Call it a Comeback

The Brooklyn Indie Market is back. Let's see how much longer they can keep this up. From Manhattan Style:

"Located on Smith and Union Streets in Brooklyn’s Carroll Gardens, indie designers of all stripes and inspirations will once again be found under the red and white striped tent, which has become a weekly gathering spot for in-the-know Big Apple shoppers. The gutsy little marketplace which places an emphasis on showcasing limited-edition, emerging designers has been touted by media like Time Out New York, New York Magazine, Italian Marie Claire and a bevy of fashion blogs as a beloved neighborhood style dealer for your fashion and design fix. BIM is conveniently located steps from the Carroll Street Station of the F/G trains.

After whats seems like a very long wintery, three-month hiatus, Brooklyn Indie Market designers re-emerge with a new bag of design tricks, some of which actually are handbags Fofolle’s new line of gallery bags are perfect for hobnobbing while balancing a flute of champagne. Kimmchi launches her new line of silkscreened lingerie, Rebecca Shepherd, known for her gorgeous adornments of precious and semi precious jewelry has expanded her repertoire to include a line of equally delicious floral design."

Brooklyn Indie Market

The Progressive New York Post is at it again!

More anti-Superfund rhetoric from the New York Post:

"Who would, considering what’s to come? Despite its men-in-tights name, Superfund is no comic-book hero. Not only is the label a skull and crossbones that scares away businesses and homeowners, it’s also an open invitation to a neverending litigation party.

So broad is the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, or CERCLA, law of 1980 that created Superfund, in the wake of hysteria about industrial toxins at the Love Canal in Niagara Falls, that anyone who ever had anything to do with polluting the site is liable for the entire cost of cleanup. Even if you legally disposed of your waste, if it ends up in the site, you’re on the hook — forever.

The city of New York is among those entities that could find itself getting sued by feds. It’s already been blamed as one of nine parties behind the pollution by the EPA. (The state requested the Superfund designation.) Is government suing government really what we want?"

Give. It. Up.