GRACE Communications Foundation

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Working with research, policy, consumer and grassroots organizations, GRACE promotes and helps develop community based production and consumption of food, water and energy.Creating innovative awareness campaigns, GRACE advocates for economically and environmentally sound alternatives to practices that are harmful to the ecosystem and public health.

Episodes of GRACE Communications Foundation

    • Play Heroic Endeavors: Riverkeeper - GRACE Communications Foundation on Blip GRACE Communications Foundation episodes on Blip

      Heroic Endeavors: Riverkeeper

      In addition to being a leader in the fight against fracking and the campaign to close the Indian Point nuclear power plant, the Riverkeeper organization operates a comprehensive water quality testing program that collects and tests samples at dozens of sites from New York Harbor to Waterford, north of Albany. Their program, the first to regularly test Hudson River water quality, makes the data publicly available within days. In this slideshow produced by Dulce Fernandes, Riverkeeper Patrol Boa...

      • Release date
        Dec 14, 2011
      • Runtime
        07:08
    • Play Aliza Eliazarov: Documenting the New Farm Movement - GRACE Communications Foundation on Blip GRACE Communications Foundation episodes on Blip

      Aliza Eliazarov: Documenting the New Farm Movement

      Recently, on a bright summer afternoon, I sat down with photographer Aliza Eliazarov to talk about her project “Sustain,” an ambitious photographic survey on the new farm movement taking place in America today. The project has taken Ms. Eliazarov across the country countless times in a quest to meet these new farmers and to document their relationships with the land and with more sustainable modes of food production, capturing their work and livelihoods in images of arresting beauty and contem...

      • Release date
        Sep 1, 2011
      • Runtime
        13:01
    • Play AQUA "Conserve Water" - GRACE Communications Foundation on Blip GRACE Communications Foundation episodes on Blip

      AQUA "Conserve Water"

      Watch 8-year old Aqua and her dog, Sparky, show her family how to conserve water and save money.

      • Release date
        Aug 17, 2011
      • Runtime
        02:52
    • Play The case for fish-friendlier power: A Watershed Moment for the EPA - GRACE Communications Foundation on Blip GRACE Communications Foundation episodes on Blip

      The case for fish-friendlier power: A Watershed ...

      Every year, the United States’ aging fleet of coal, oil, gas and nuclear power plants suck in nearly 100 trillion gallons of water from the nation’s rivers, lakes and estuaries through their antiquated cooling systems. In the process, these plants needlessly kill fish and other aquatic life. ; Learn more about the damage caused by the nation’s older power plants, and what the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed to do about it, from Executive Director and Hudson Riverkeeper Paul G...

      • Release date
        Jun 14, 2011
      • Runtime
        09:42
    • Play Back to the Grange - GRACE Communications Foundation on Blip GRACE Communications Foundation episodes on Blip

      Back to the Grange

      I like when people undertake big bold projects that innovate and inspire. So naturally, when my friend and former colleague Gwen Schantz decided to build a one-acre farm on the roof of a seven-story office building in an industrial section of New York City, I was pretty excited. And when she and her partners began construction, I ventured out to Queens to spend a day rolling felt and shoveling growing media on what would become Brooklyn Grange, which is now believed to be the world’s largest r...

      • Release date
        Nov 18, 2010
      • Runtime
        04:41
    • Play Joan Gussow's Garden Recovery - GRACE Communications Foundation on Blip GRACE Communications Foundation episodes on Blip

      Joan Gussow's Garden Recovery

      Joan Gussow talks about her garden's recovery from a flood.

      • Release date
        Mar 30, 2011
      • Runtime
        14:34
    • Play Perspectives on Long Island's Aging Power Plants - GRACE Communications Foundation on Blip GRACE Communications Foundation episodes on Blip

      Perspectives on Long Island's Aging Power Plants

      For decades, aging power plants on Long Island have killed and injured billions of fish, larvae and eggs, harming marine ecosystems and the businesses that depend on them. In this slideshow three residents share what Long Island's marine waters mean to them and the community they live in; as well as their thoughts on the impact that old power plants have had on the marine environment.

      • Release date
        Sep 21, 2010
      • Runtime
        04:34
    • Play Coalition of Immokalee Workers Modern-Day Slavery Museum - GRACE Communications Foundation on Blip GRACE Communications Foundation episodes on Blip

      Coalition of Immokalee Workers Modern-Day Slaver...

      The CIW Modern-Day Slavery Museum made a stop on the Lower East Side of Manhattan where we spoke to representative Oscar Otzoy about the mobile museum and their current campaigns.

      • Release date
        Sep 2, 2010
      • Runtime
        03:43
    • Play Revolutionizing Urban Agriculture, One Sub-Irrigated Planter At A Time - GRACE Communications Foundation on Blip GRACE Communications Foundation episodes on Blip

      Revolutionizing Urban Agriculture, One Sub-Irrig...

      Owned, constructed and operated by Frieda Lim, the Slippery Slope Farm in Brooklyn produces an impressive variety of beautiful vegetables using 75 sub-irrigated planters (SIPs). Unlike traditional, in-ground, top-irrigated planting setups, SIPs utilize a standing reservoir of water situated below the soil in which the plants are grown.

      • Release date
        Aug 24, 2010
      • Runtime
        03:04
    • Play Super Local: A Brooklyn Egg CSA - GRACE Communications Foundation on Blip GRACE Communications Foundation episodes on Blip

      Super Local: A Brooklyn Egg CSA

      People have always raised chickens in New York City but now a new demographic of young, eco-minded urbanites is getting into the urban chicken movement too and coops are sprouting throughout the boroughs. That is why the eggs in this story, unlike most of the eggs that you find in the shelves of your regular supermarket and that could have been standing there for up to

      • Release date
        Aug 9, 2010
      • Runtime
        08:56
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