Mia MacDonald will speak about the ecological impacts of industrial animal agriculture at Farm Sanctuary’s annual New York shelter Country Hoe-Down. More details and registration information for the two-day event here.

If you live in New York City, please call your City Council person on Tuesday, July 21st to urge his/her support for the FoodprintNYC Resolution. The resolution calls for New York City to create a more local, climate… Read More

Brighter Green attends Nobel Women’s Initiative Conference in Antigua, Guatemala.

Executive Director Mia MacDonald will be speaking at The Future of Food: Transatlantic Perspectives conference, co-sponsored by the European Union and Boston University.

Executive Director Mia MacDonald will be speaking at the Brooklyn Food Conference as part of a panel on food, agriculture and global warming.

Lars Lindqvist, CEO of Basecamp and Brighter Green partner, will speak about Basecamp’s approach to responsible travel: tourism for people, planet, and profit.

Author, activist, Nobel Prize laureate and Brighter Green colleague Wangari Maathai discusses her new book, The Challenge for Africa (Pantheon, 2009), with Leonard Lopate of WNYC New York public radio.

In honor of International Women’s Day, Brighter Green is co-sponsoring this innovative panel discussion on the effects of global warming and its intersection with gender and population realities worldwide.

The Sierra Club NYC Group presents an examination of the increasing commercialization of NYC parks, focused on the Brooklyn Bridge Park, with Judi Francis, president of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Defense Fund, and Roy Sloane, who has led public outreach efforts as a board member of the BB Park Local Development Corp. Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

Come learn about the state of farming and the invasion of CAFOs (confined/concentrated animal feeding operations) aka factory farms in New York state. Speakers on the issues as well as tastings of locally produced food and wine.