Crissy Spivey

Screening Guide

admin — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 00:39:31 +0000

Crissy Spivey wrote and developed the screening guide for Breakthrough’s 9 minute documentary, Restore Fairness. The interactive guide helps viewers host screenings and become even more engaged in the issues and the film.

Discussion Guide

admin — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 00:36:30 +0000

Crissy Spivey developed a popular discussion guide for Breakthrough’s online video game Homeland Guantanamos. The guide has been downloaded by many teachers, community organizers, press and more.

b-listed

admin — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 00:23:21 +0000

Managing editor of b-listed blog - http://blisted.breakthrough.tv

Rice, Rice Baby

admin — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:34:51 +0000

Ready to stop, collaborate, and listen to an idea for good carbs near you? RICE restaurant goes near and far to make eats of the same name- the finest Basmati rice from India (and better for you than a certain uncle’s we know). And cozy dishes, like yummy Butternut Squash Chowder, made with or without vitamin D from upstate dairy-all-star Ronnybrook Farm. Even closer, RICE doesn’t trash left-overs, but gives local Red Hook Community Farm in Brooklyn the extras to compost, that make organic food for the hood, and for RICE’s menu. If you’re swinging by Ikea this fall (for another light–brown bookshelf), RICE will be serving up its India-meets-Brooklyn fare at Red Hook’s Fourth Annual Harvest Festival this fall. Yikes, fall already? Too cold, too cold.

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Bust a Move

admin — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:24:55 +0000

Next door’s loud young MC, have you planning your next move? If you want it, you’ve gotta use green moving Co. – Movers Not Shakers. Lady’s (or fella’s) choice: if you want to pack it yourself, the co. will drop off its sig. plastic, reusable GothamBoxes (that nix the need for tape and cardboard) for you to fill. Not feelin the DIY: they will pack it up and move it for you (we won’t be leaving the X bed). And when the job’s done, they’ll pick up their boxes for their next move and many after that. (One GothamBox saves using 150 paper boxes.) Walkups, studios, 1bdrms, whatev, they’ll work with what you got and give you a flat, upfront dolla dolla bill yall, which =’s no surprise hourly fees on moving day. They roll in trucks that use TRI-State BioDiesel made from cooking oil from frying your fav eats at local haunts like the Good Fork in Red Hook and is 90% less toxic than standard petroleum diesel. Word.

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The Fifth Sense

admin — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:19:48 +0000

Haunted by old plastic containers stacked in your kitchen cabinets? Preserve Gimme 5 wants the ghosts of #5’s that most communities in NYC (except the Park Slope Coop.) won’t take. A.k.a your yogurt, butter, hummus, med containers and so on (just peek on the bottom). But now, bring ‘em to the white bins in Whole Foods stores across NYC– we just dropped off our Stonyfield organic yogurt cups (a proud sponsor of the program). From there, Preserve gives your containers new life as U.S. made, 100% recycable products with safe plastic that you can buy for your digs: everything from apple green colanders, black tooth brushes, and even razors that you can return to be recycled. If you drop off your Brita filter to WF (or snail mail it to Preserve in Cortland, NY) it’s reincarnated into goods you can buy in the store. Buying recycled locally sold plastic wares saves tons of energy that’s wasted in making new plastic and saves six feet (or more) of junk in landfills. We see smart people.

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Nu Kid on the block

admin — Sat, 30 May 2009 15:43:56 +0000

Feel like you’re hangin’ tough when you’re staying at hotels that just don’t feel right? Step one: have lots’ o fun scoping all things green at brand spankin’ Nu Hotel in Brooklyn, like cork floors in the rooms (cleaned with Eco Lab cleaning products), refurbished teak wood furniture, organic cotton sheets and wait for it… biodegradable room key cards. Step two: there’s so much you can do, like swing from the hammocks in the king room suites, bond with your free wireless or go old-school and write notes on the chalkboard bathroom walls instead of wasting a pad of paper. Step three: stay tuned for free bikes for guests to ride on to Prospect Park and Grand Army Plaza’s farmer’s market. Ohhh ohhh ohhh oh oh.

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Got Milk Men?

admin — Sat, 30 May 2009 15:36:51 +0000

Hate lugging home too-heavy grocery store half gallons? Manhattan Milk’s milk-men will do the heavy lifting. Every week, sit pretty and wait for MM to drop off 100%, organic milk in old-school reusable, recyclable glass bottles at your doorstep (that they pick up free of charge). And it’s not your average Vitamin D, think: no pesticides, no growth hormones, grass-fed, free roaming Byrne Dairy cows from upstate NY and Amish country. MM delivers other eats too like, Pete and Gerry’s organic eggs, Natalie’s All Natural OJ and growth-hormone free blueberry, cherry and peach yogurts. For borough-dwellers, they currently only deliver in Manhattan, but come June 1st, Brooklynites get door to door milk n’ men too. Moovelous.

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Green Days

admin — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:10:30 +0000

Think life’s something unpredictable? Find out how in the end it could be right at Growing and Greening New York: PlaNYC and the Future of the City at the Museum of the City of New York. This massive exhibit goes through a day in the life of a NY’er from shower, to subway, to bed, and shows us how we can change our impact on the enviro for the better. Must Do’s: the “Living Room,” hooked up w/sustainable/recycled home goods like the non-toxic, 100% recyclable Lite2Go lamp from 3R Living in Park Slope; an energy hub that figures out how much energy appliances are using; faux plates of food at the Hidden Cost of Dinner counter that show how far meals actually traveled to get to your plate (we did - that apple is definitely an out of town guest.) Avant-garde museumgoers don’t feel left out: there’s old-school recycled bikes and water bottles hanging from the ceiling. You’ll have the time of your life.

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Nu Kid on the block

admin — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:59:55 +0000

Feel like you’re hangin tough when you’re stayin’ at hotels that just don’t feel right? Step one: have lots’ o fun scoping all things green at brand spankin’ Nu Hotel in Brooklyn, like cork floors in the rooms (cleaned with Eco Lab cleaning products), refurbished teak wood furniture, organic cotton sheets and wait for it… biodegradable room key cards. Step two: there’s so much you can do, like swing from the hammocks in the king room suites, bond with your free wireless or go old-school and write notes on the chalkboard bathroom walls instead of wasting a pad of paper. Step three: stay tuned for free bikes for guests to ride to Prospect Park and Grand Army Plaza’s farmer’s market. Ohhh ohhh ohhh oh oh.

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