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.

New York City artists that are known as street vendors and have routinely sold their work in NYC’s Union Square have been fighting for their first amendment rights so they can continue to sell their work:

On Friday, April 4, a Parks Department official approached artists who had set up in the park and told them that, due to the construction of the private restaurant in the north pavilion, they would not be allowed to sell their art on Wednesdays and Saturdays, two of the most popular days for artists to sell their work, and that the artists were to vacate the park.

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