Comedy Central wants to teach you easy ways to reduce waste and help revive the planet! Through their on-air and online ‘Address the Mess’ campaign, Comedy Central is helping viewers reduce their carbon footprint. And on Sunday, November 9th, from 10am-4pm as Address the Mess takes over the WEST part of Union Square between E 15 & E 16th Street to help New Yorkers properly recycle their old appliances. With the support of the Lower East Side Ecology Center and the NYC Department of Parks & Recreation, Address the Mess plans to raise awareness around the environmental crisis and collect all the unwanted e-ware gathering dust in your homes. By coming to this event participants have the chance to win two front row tickets to Brian Regan’s performance at the New York Comedy Festival.

Check out this video about Address the Mess featuring talented comedian (and my dear pal) Al Jackson:

Discarded electronics contribute to over 70% of the toxins found in our nation’s landfills. So if you live in NYC come out to Union Square next Sunday and Address the Mess. takepart and visit http://www.addressthemess.com for more information on this event and to learn other environmentally friendly steps you can take everyday.

Alright, as I mentioned earlier I’ve been missing Brooklyn lately, and another reason is tomorrow’s Harvest Festival at the Added Value Farm in Red Hook.   So, once again, I ask all of you New Yorkers to head down to the festival and let me live vicariously through your experience at this amazing urban farm.   My college friend Caroline Loomis helps run this remarkable, formerly-concrete-now-verdant oasis, which teaches kids from the community to grow and sell their own produce.   Beyond providing a much needed nutritional resource for the community, the Added Value programs provides

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I think most New Yorkers have a love/hate relationship with the most exciting, stimulating and most over-crowded, stressful city in America. I know I have spent many hours questioning why I struggle to live here while co-currently questioning how I could ever by happy living elsewhere. ( I think this old blog entry sums up just one of the many frustrations with NYC livin’). This is why I love (not hate) the web project lovehateNYC, which chronicles Rachel Fujita’s personal love-hate relationship with New York City through panoramic time lapse sequences. Fujita is a multimedia artist who has lived in New York for the last seven beautifully capturing the cities changes through her unique online art. To get inspired, nostalgic, and swept away check out http://www.lovehate.us.

And to learn more about New Yorks history visit The Museum of the City of New York. This unique cultural center celebrates NYC’s heritage of diversity, opportunity, and perpetual transformation through exhibitions, public programs, and publications that explore the past, present, and future of New York City. You can also and support the museums efforts by visiting mcny.org.