by Content | Jul 23, 2015 | Previous Featured Article
Left: Solar Shade Panel Progress, Center: David Gibbs demonstrates bike power, Right: A construction day! This spring, the NYC Compost Project hosted by Earth Matter, invested funds raised thru our collaboration with Governors Island Alliance (GIA) corporate groups’...
by Content | Jul 3, 2015 | Previous Featured Article
Photo: Solar platform team places the beams in place By Wylie Goodman It was still 35 degrees outside in late March when a dedicated group of nearly 10 volunteers began the tough work of hammering, sawing, leveling, and raising a 12′ x 14′ frame into the...
by Content | Apr 2, 2015 | Previous Featured Article
Last fall, a team from the organization Just Food joined us at Earth Matter’s Compost Learning Center on Governors Island to lay down a “mushroom bed”, or spawn bed. We spoke to Just Food’s Jorge Cubas about what it means to create a mushroom bed, and what can be...
by Content | Apr 2, 2015 | Previous Featured Article
Selma Raven, Mary Ng, Anandi Premlall, Francois Piebo, and Oliver Lamb plant a NYS native apple tree, donated to Earth Matter by Gotham Orchards. [This is excerpted from the graduation speech presented by Earth Matter apprentice Anandi Premlall. Michael Raven was a...
by Content | Jan 3, 2015 | Previous Featured Article
By Albert Carreras Turn off all lights when you leave a room and the faucet when brushing your teeth, use public transportation, reduce and recycle your waste, and compost your organics. All these actions are part of a long list of tips on how to go green and reduce...
by Content | Oct 30, 2014 | Previous Featured Article
By Bill Koehnlein If you’ve ever dropped by Earth Matter’s Compost Learning Center on Governors Island, you might have met Hollis Hillhouse, long-time Earth Matter Jane-of-all-trades and our Volunteer Coordinator. If you’ve brought a group of school children to the...
