Partnering with Pratt’s Sustainable Communities course
Last month the Curb Your Litter team was invited to participate in a Sustainable Environmental Systems (SES) course at Pratt Institute. SES is a trans-disciplinary program in graduate sustainability...
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Introducing CUP Teaching Artist Dillon de Give
Teaching Artist Dillon de Give with students in the Digital Investigations course at Frances Perkins Academy. Photo courtesy of CUP. This week the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) selected the teaching...
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Curb Your Litter featured in Gotham Gazette
DSNY Commissioner Katherine Garcia featured in Gotham Gazette article “Combatting New York’s Enduring Quality-of-Life Problem: Litter” Curb Your Litter was featured today in the Gotham Gazette article...
View ArticleCurb Your Litter designers Partner & Partners featured in Urban Omnibus
Urban Omnibus, an online publication dedicated to defining and enriching the culture of citymaking, published a feature on Partner & Partners, the graphic design firm behind the Curb Your Litter...
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Curb Your Litter is a BigApps semifinalist!
Our interactive map that enables Greenpointers to explore data on the litter problem and suggest locations for new trash bins is a NYC BigApps semifinalist! Sponsored by the City of New York, NYC...
View ArticleTechnical.ly Brooklyn covers our interactive map
Technical.ly Brooklyn featured our interactive map today, writing: “The group built an interactive map that lets users explore open government data about trash bins, recycling bins and litter, most of...
View ArticleThe Cartographers of Crud
The Brooklyn Paper featured our interactive map in today’s issue. We didn’t know it could feel so good to be dubbed “the cartographers of crud.” After reading the article, we think it is important to...
View ArticleNorth Brooklyn’s streets are also less clean than they were two years ago
Today, the New York Environmental Report published an in-depth feature on Curb Your Litter: Greenpoint. The article tells the story of how the project came to be along with informative facts about...
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Vote for us as one of the best examples of Brooklyn Tech!
Curb Your Litter has been nominated for a 2015 Brooklyn Innovation Award by Technical.ly Brooklyn. We’re thrilled to be recognized as a successful digital tool that represents the Brooklyn spirit. The...
View ArticleHelp us review Pratt student’s ideas improving Greenpoint’s sustainability
The Curb Your Litter team was invited to be a client in a practice-based course at Pratt Institute’s Sustainable Environmental Systems masters program. Over the Fall 2015 semester, students in a course...
View ArticleApril 16: First Clean Up Day of 2016!
Join us and Neighbors Allied for Good Growth for our first clean up day of 2016! We are teaming up with the Cooper Park Houses Tenants Association to pick up the southeast section of our neighborhood....
View ArticleClean up Greenpoint’s Waterfront with Us and Riverkeeper Sweep
Join us and Neighbors Allied for Good Growth to pick up northwest Greenpoint with Curb Your Litter: Greenpoint! We are teaming up with Riverkeeper Sweep, the Greenpoint YMCA and the Yale Alumni...
View ArticleApril 30: Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund Open House
The Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund’s investment of over $54M in Greenpoint’s environment is underway and helping to transform our community! On Saturday, April 30, Greenpoint residents are...
View ArticleSouthwest Greenpoint is About to Get Cleaner.
Join us and Neighbors Allied for Good Growth to pick up southwest Greenpoint, meet your neighbors and make our community a healthier and cleaner place to live. All volunteers will get a free lunch as...
View ArticleWhere Does Your Trash Go? Come Find Out!
We have been working with the Center for Urban Pedagogy and a group of students at Frances Perkins Academy over the past year to dig deeper into the complicated world of garbage infrastructure....
View ArticleJuly 30: Last Clean Up Day of 2016
Join the Greenpoint Chamber of Commerce and Neighbors Allied for Good Growth to pick up northeast Greenpoint with Curb Your Litter: Greenpoint! *This is our LAST clean up day of 2016* Come out to Java...
View ArticleTalking Trash: Throwing Out the Big Apple
Curb Your Litter worked with the Center for Urban Pedagogy and a group of students at Frances Perkins Academy to dig deeper into the complicated world of garbage infrastructure. Over the course of the...
View ArticleCommunity Map Fair: July 27
We’re plugging our interactive trash map at the Neighbors Allied for Good Growth (NAG) Community Map Fair this Wednesday, July 27. The evening convenes several neighborhood organizations who have built...
View ArticleClean Up Day 8: Recap
We held our last Clean Up Day event of 2016 on Saturday, July 30. Despite the heat and the fact that the majority of the neighborhood was on vacation, we had a turnout of nearly 30 volunteers to close...
View ArticleClean Up Day with Go Green: Brooklyn
Join us and Neighbors Allied for Good Growth for the first Curb Your Litter: Greenpoint clean up day of 2017. We are teaming up with the Go Green Brooklyn festival to pick up McCarren Park and the...
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