http://houshour.com Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:00:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This expose on electronics recycling aired on 60 Minutes yesterday. I have been asking questions about NYC public schools electronic recycling and people haven't liked it. Watch CBS Videos Online http://houshour.com/electronics-recycling/ Is the New York City school recycling bin half empty or half full? Councilmember’s Bill DeBlasio’s office introduced a bill calling for recycling in NYC schools (purposefully redundant since it’s unpracticed city law) and legislation requiring the Department of Education provide schools with recycling bins in June 2008. Teachers from around ... http://houshour.com/is-that-bin-half-full/ We had great turnout at the press conference and hearing on recycling in NYC schools yesterday. Students, teachers and parents from MS 447, PS 19, Eleanor Roosevelt High School and Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School, Brooklyn New School and PS/IS 298 attended, many of them wearing "Be cool. Recycle at ... http://houshour.com/media-covers-the-school-recycling-rally-and-press-conference/ Today I testified at the hearing on recycling in NYC public schools. Here's my testimony: Hello. My name is Coquille Houshour. Thank you for inviting me to share my school recycling experience and my enthusiasm for creating successful recycling programs in all New York City Schools. I hope by sharing the ... http://houshour.com/city-council-hearing-on-recycling-in-nyc-schools/ Calling All NYC School Recycling Supporters! City Hall wants to hear from us! And WE NEED YOUR HELP! A Joint Committee hearing with the Dept. of Sanitation and the Dept. of Education on SCHOOL RECYCLING is set for TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1 PM. at City Hall. Councilmember Bill De Blasio will be holding ... http://houshour.com/city-council-hearing-on-nyc-school-recycling/ The Story of Stuff is getting a lot of attention around the U.S.'s favorite shop 'til you drop season. Here's a teaser, but you can watch the whole thing at The Story of Stuff. http://houshour.com/the-story-of-stuff/ Our Our Synthetic Sea is about 10 minutes and seriously disturbing. If we cut open our stomachs, shouldn't we find a sea of synthetics? http://houshour.com/sea-of-synthetics/ Check out Chris Jordan on Comedy Central and Pop!Casts! He photographs the scale of consumption patterns by photographing small quantities of things and then making digital composites that add up the smaller photographs into actual quantities of the things we consume. http://houshour.com/running-the-numbers/ Thanks to the City Council's support for Project Chess, the awesome non-profit, Chess-in-the-Schools, is training hundreds of New York City public school teachers (elementary, middle and high school) to implement chess programs in their schools in all five boroughs with their new Teacher Training Institutes. Sign-up for one of their free ... http://houshour.com/make-chess-your-next-move/ The National Constitution Center in Philadelphia has more than 100 interactive exhibits and an estimated 17 hours of interpretive content. Their website has a generous amount of educational resources, including a visitor's guide and resources on teaching current events. If you can, take your class there! Need-based scholarships are available ... http://houshour.com/we-the-people/