AirCasting Greenpoint: Citizen Science for Clean Air HabitatMap, Inc. This project proposes to implement a community-based Grant Request participatory research project that will: 1) equip $235,388 Greenpoint residents with wearable sensors and smartphones for recording, mapping, and sharing air Value of Applicant & Partner quality measurements; and 2) provide the Greenpoint Contributions community with innovative ways to visualize and make $893,508 sense of the collected data to reduce air pollution exposures and address community concerns related to Location air pollution, health, and quality of life. Greenpoint Major activities include: • surveying Greenpoint residents regarding their air pollution concerns; • training participants in air quality sampling, health tracking, and data analysis; • conducting a GIS analysis to examine relationships between air and health; • performing a policy analysis to identify initiatives for improving air quality in Greenpoint; Independent Review • working with community-based organizations to Committee Score: 73/100 review potential clean air initiatives; The Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund is a joint program of the New York State Office of the Attorney General and Department of Environmental Conservation. • organizing a workshop during which Greenpoint Project Goals participants, trained in air quality sampling and • 20% reduction in exposure to data analysis, can transfer their knowledge and fine particulate air pollution findings to others. for participants; Inform community action to Personal exposures to air pollution will be reduced via • reduce exposures to air avoidance, once residents are made aware of pollution; and, neighborhood “hot spots”, by behavior change, once participants are made aware of which activities and • Demonstrate how behaviors have the largest negative impact on the community-based research can make substantial quality of the air they are breathing, and by the contributions to scientific community action, once residents are educated as to understanding and public their air quality environment and how this is related to policy. pollution generating activities and the policies which regulate them. Project Partners By piloting this state-of-the-art program in Greenpoint • Newtown Creek Alliance and publicizing the community’s findings, AirCasting • Sonoma Technology, Inc. Greenpoint will raise Greenpoint’s profile at the local, • New York University School of state, and national level thereby helping achieve Medicine policies that address community concerns related to air • New York University Robert F. pollution, health, and quality of life. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service About the Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund (GCEF) The GCEF is a $19.5 million grant program created by the New York State Office of the Attorney General and Department of Environmental Conservation with monies obtained through a settlement with ExxonMobil over its Greenpoint oil spill. The GCEF’s goal is to fund projects that will address the Greenpoint community’s environmental priorities through a process that is open, transparent, and ensures ongoing engagement and partnership with the community. The Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund is a joint program of the New York State Office of the Attorney General and Department of Environmental Conservation. Curb Your Litter: Greenpoint Greenpoint Chamber of Commerce Curb Your Litter: Greenpoint proposes a coordinated Grant Request effort to address the structural deficiencies and $569,145 behavioral patterns that have led to Greenpoint’s litter problem. This project proposes to implement a strategy Value of Applicant & Partner to significantly reduce litter in Greenpoint. Contributions $269,980 Major project activities include: Location an on-the-ground analysis of the community’s litter Greenpoint problem; conducting an education and outreach anti-litter campaign that includes training 15 Greenpoint-based students to serve as community mentors; delivering solid waste management and recycling curriculum at Greenpoint schools; involving businesses by asking them to take a “Clean Greenpoint” pledge; engaging residents in six community litter cleanup days; and using the community litter analysis to work collaboratively with the NYC Department of Independent Review Sanitation to adopt structural improvements, Committee Score: 75/100 The Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund is a joint program of the New York State Office of the Attorney General and Department of Environmental Conservation. such as adding more traditional and innovative trash Project Goals receptacles (e.g., solar, three-bin recycling) in high traffic areas of Greenpoint. Install more traditional and innovative trash receptacles The negative impacts of littering are numerous and containers on underserved areas; pervasive. This project seeks to reduce the amount of litter in Greenpoint green spaces, streets and sewers. By Improve neighborhood solid incorporating waste education and outreach in all waste management; and, project phases, Curb Your Litter: Greenpoint will teach Develop both community residents and visitors the importance of proper litter members and visitors as litter disposal to help ensure the neighborhood’s streets stay stewards. clean, and keep reduce litter in Greenpoint’s land and water. Project Partners The project will be conducted in three overlapping NYC Department of phases: Phase 1: a litter assessment of Greenpoint; Phase Sanitation 2: a coordinated education and outreach litter- ClosedLoops reduction campaign; and Phase 3: the implementation of infrastructure improvements. Placemeter Center for Urban Pedagogy New York University Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) The CUSP Open Trash Observatory About the Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund Neighbors Allied for Good (GCEF) Growth NYC Community School The GCEF is a $19.5 million grant program created by District 14, including Frances the New York State Office of the Attorney General and Perkins Academy, Department of Environmental Conservation with monies Automotive High School, MS obtained through a settlement with ExxonMobil over its 126, PS 110, PS 34, and PS 31 Greenpoint oil spill. The GCEF’s goal is to fund projects that will address the Greenpoint community’s environmental priorities through a process that is open, transparent, and ensures ongoing engagement and partnership with the community. The Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund is a joint program of the New York State Office of the Attorney General and Department of Environmental Conservation. Greening Greenpoint City Parks Foundation This project proposes to develop and implement a Grant Request comprehensive urban forestry plan for Greenpoint. The $1,950,719 three-year project will increase canopy cover by planting Value of Applicant & Partner new trees and performing maintenance on existing street Contributions and park trees. The environmental and social benefits of $1,958,786 trees are well–documented, and are recognized to restore and protect air, water, and land resources. The Location project will also increase pervious surface area, thereby Greenpoint protecting Greenpoint’s water bodies by reducing combined sewer overflow discharges. Major project activities include: • Planting 500 new street and park trees; • Installing 325 tree guards, and planting bulbs and groundcover around street trees; • Removing up to 25,000 sq. ft. of impervious concrete around 675 existing tree beds; and • Training and equipping tree stewards from Greenpoint schools and community to elevate the Independent Review level of engagement in long-term tree pruning and Committee Score: 75/100 care The Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund is a joint program of the New York State Office of the Attorney General and Department of Environmental Conservation. Additionally, up to 10 high school juniors and seniors from Project Goals Greenpoint will be selected to participate in an urban • Create new tree canopy and community forestry paid internship program. The cover; interns will receive environmental education and hands- • Promote healthy long-lived on training focused on developing their skills in urban trees; forestry and involving field trips and seminars with “working” professionals from environmental and natural • Add one acre of new green resources fields. space overall to Greenpoint; • Treat 787,500 gallons of New and healthier trees will benefit all Greenpoint stormwater annually; residents. The planting and care of trees on the streets • Eliminate 13,000 pounds of and parks, increasing the overall tree “canopy”, and a local air pollution in the community-wide forestry program provides for storing neighborhood; and, and capturing carbon dioxide and other types of air • Train and educate pollution, reducing stormwater pollution, lowering community members to act summer temperatures on streets, and creating wildlife as tree stewards long-term. habitat and adding native plants back into Greenpoint’s Project Partners environment. • Trees New York • City Parks Foundation- Partnership for Parks • MillionTrees NYC • NYC Department of Parks and About the Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund Recreation-Forestry (GCEF) • Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn The GCEF is a $19.5 million grant program created by the New York State Office of the Attorney General and • Greenpoint Chamber of Commerce Department of Environmental Conservation with monies obtained through a settlement with ExxonMobil over