PSA Distribution & Tree Adoption! 

For the last couple of weeks we have been distributing PSAs (Public Service Announcements) to outdoor movie presenters to play prior to their movie screenings. These PSAs were created by Green Teens around the city of New York! Keep your eye out at these movies and see if you like these short clips! We would love your feedback! 

On another note Summer is a great time to help out your community and adopt a tree in your area! Through MillionTreesNYC, (http://www.milliontreesnyc.org) an initiative set up under Mayor Bloomberg to increase the tree population in NYC, you can adopt your own tree and take care of it! Trees need us as much as we need them! Visit the MillionTreesNYC website and adopt your tree today! 

On Monday July 16th, 2012 the Design Workshop commenced their summer session with a brief overview of the program and a couple of great site visits! 

The first site visit was to the NYC Pavilion in Flushing Meadow Corona Park(pictured above). This site was the former location of the 1939 & 1964 World's Fair. The members of the Design Workshop were given a brief tour of the structure by John Krawchuk, the Director of Historic Preservation for the Park Department (pictured above). The discussion on site included a history of the structure, the surrounding buildings as well as a history of the World's Fair. 

The City of New York is looking for innovated ideas on how to restore this site and bring this location back to it's former glory. To learn more check out http://www.newyorkstatepavilion.org/revivenewyorkstate.pdf. 

Several of the structures built for the World's Fair are still in use today however the Pavilion & the three Observation Towers are closed to the public. 

The second site visit took the Green Teens participating in the Design Workshop to PS 1, a satellite location of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). The Design workshop took this tour to examine Wendy by Matthias Hollwich and Marc Kushnew (HWKN) winners of the Young Archutects Program (YAP) in New York. Wendy is an inexpensive, environmentally conscious piece that will be used throughout the summer to clean the air in PS1 (equivalent to taking 260 cars off the road in NYC) and will be used as a cool down and aesthetic addition to the Warm Up music series. To read more check out the website http://momaps1.org/yap/view/15. 

The Design Workshop on a trip to PS 1

What We Learned from 

Glen Nison,

NYC Department of Sanitation! 

1. We need to recycle more and waste less! 

2. We should recycle glass bottles and jars but not other glass material like mirrors and windows! 

3. If it is at least 50% metal it can and should be recycled! 

4. Most paper can be recycled. Paper that can not be recycled includes any soiled material, hard covered books and soft paper (for example napkins and tissues) 

5. If you need more information call 311 or go to www.nyc.gov/recycle 

 

Queens Green Teens would like to send out a special thanks to Street Tree Planning and MillionTrees NYC for their help in making our SYEP & GT Orientation such a great success! 

Learning how to care for trees was awesome! 

I can't wait to use all my new skills to care for the tree I adopted! 

Green Teen Orientation- 

Lost Batallion Hall 

QGTs had a great orientation last Friday at Lost Batallion Hall! Not only learning to care for trees, the newest members of the Green Teens learned what to recycle, the importance of horticulture and why environmental awareness is extremely important. 


Do you know someone who wants to join in and volunteer? 
Our next orientation is @ Roy Wilkins on July 9th, from 9-Noon!