Wishing everyone a happy and healthy May! I am back from a fantastic vacation to Sedona. I highly recommend traveling to this beautiful area of our country for amazing hiking, sight-seeing (ancient cliff dwellings, petroglyphs, an artsy old mining ghost town, new age stores and crystal shops), and delicious food (found the best vegan garden restaurant and chocolate bar for lunch, and an incredible gluten-free pizzeria). If you go, email me for travel suggestions!
A few exciting announcements:
First, I have a new 3-week class at Integral Yoga Institute for the next 3 Monday nights: My “Yoga Barre” at 6:30- 8 pm combines yoga warm-ups, pilates, and ballet barre to strengthen and tone the body, and increase balance and coordination. Come to any one or all three classes! Go to http://www.iyiny.org to sign up!
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Second, on May 22, please come join my West 80s Neighborhood Association, our elected officials and community board, environmental organizations, non-profits, students, businesses and city agencies, as we clean and green across the UWS. It will be a fun afternoon as we care for our important NYC street trees by adding mulch and compost, clean up litter, engage in a voluntary trash audit, and join with other New Yorkers who want to see our city be cleaner and greener. Free goodie bags will be distributed with gardening tools, curb your dog signs, and other free items. Compost and mulch will be provided in free take-home buckets, and coffee and snacks will be served. We need volunteers to help that day, as well as volunteers to help market our Second Annual “Love Your Street Tree Day”. Please let me know if you are interested! To sign up for May 22, go tohttp://loveyourstreetday/eventbrite.com
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Finally, the most recent The New Yorker magazine has a great article on the plastic bag issue, and I am quoted in the middle of the article as the author shadowed me and my neighborhood group as we trained with Bette Midler’s organization, NY Restoration Project, learning how to remove plastic bags from trees with a tool called a bag snagger. The article is very thorough regarding plastic pollution issues, laws seeking to curtail plastic bag use, and obstacles to that environmental fight. I do hope NYC’s carry-out bag law currently pending before the City Council gets signed by Mayor De Blasio this week. The Speaker just endorsed it, and there are 26 co-sponsors now in the Council! Please see http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/02/saving-america-from-plastic-bags
