Ecological Footprint Quiz

This is the link for The Global Footprint Network, which Dr. Rizzieri showed us in LIB110 this morning. The site features an online quiz to calculate your ecological footprint. Just choose "Personal Footprint" from the "Footprint Basics" menu and click on "Take the Quiz."

New York City "Food Drought"

The Gotham Gazette has an excellent article on unequal access to whole foods in New York City and the so-called "food drought" in the outer boroughs. The article demonstrates a direct link between access to fruits and vegetables and income: Chelsea, with a median income of $100,000 per year, is filled with fruit stands and whole food groceries, whereas you can hardly buy lettuce in West Harlem, which has a median income of about $30,000. Great use of testimony from New York City residents and a useful map that shows the distribution of groceries stores in each neighborhood in New York City.

You can find links to Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer's plan to fix the food drought here.

FoodNYC on The Brian Lehrer Show

Right this minute, The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC is doing a program on problems in the New York City food system and
FoodNYC, Scott Stringer’s plan for sustainable food in New York City.

You can see the description of the show here at WNYC's web site.

You can read Scott Stringer's FoodNYC plan here.