Saturday May 17, 2008
"To achieve an aesthetic, unpolluted environment, with a natural and historic heritage." ~Theresa Lato, Founder

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BCEQ, PO BOX 265, Bronx, NY 10464-0265

Keeping pollutants out of the Bronx River

From top left to right, then center L to R, and bottom L to R.

1. People: Founders Theresa Lato and Helen C. Reel created the vision for BCEQ at Lehman College.

2. 2005 SpeakUp: Council Member Oliver Koppell, IC and Assembly Member Jeffery Dinowitz networking in the Exhibit’s room.

3-4. 2005 Event Green Roof Ribbon Cutting (top right) at St. Simon Stock School rooftop(center left): Paul Mankiewicz of the Gaia Institute, IC, Borough President Adolfo Carrión, and Jessica Kratz of the GreenApple Corps Program – an example of how greening can clean the air, capture the rain water, and cool the landscape in the Bronx.

5. 2006 Rally at the Public Hearing (left) to Save Macombs Dam Park (right): IC standing with Joyce Hogi and others from Save Our Parks at the CPC Hearing.

6. 2005 June BBQ: At this outdoor meeting held at City Island, IC and Maria Luisa Cipriano looking to make sure there is a quorum.

7. 2005 BCEQ Annual Meeting: Borough President Adolfo Carrión, Dart Westphal and New York Restoration Project Brian Sahd listen attentively at the Harlem River Water Conference.

8. 2006 BCEQ Annual Meeting: IC watches Paula Caplan from the BP’s Office and BOA Project Manger Hilary Kitasei at the Workshop section of the Harlem River BOA Conference.

9. Old Yankee Stadium looming over neighborhood running tract of Macombs Dam Park that will be extinct once the new Yankee Stadium is built. This plan is removing 400 trees, unsettling 20 acres of pervious surfaced parkland with no stormwater plan, and is not greening, cleaning and cooling.