ioby Picked Up
August 27, Practically Green says that ioby is a great way to fund a Back to School project. Great idea!
August 25, Seventh Generation blogger Inkslinger describes the rapid metropolitan growth we're experiencing in the U.S. and says, "No matter where we live, we all have a stake in what happens in our cities, and ioby makes it easy to get involved in the urban sustainability movement."
May 25, Brooklyn Based wrote about ioby and called us a way for "wannabe philanthropists" to connect to cash-starved "awesome grassroots efforts." Thanks, Brooklyn Based! You're awesome!
April 22, Brandi Colander on the NRDC Switchboard talks about what Earth Day means to her on the 40th anniversary and says ioby is a great way to give the earth some TLC in your own backyard. Also, Give & Get NYC highlights ioby as a volunteering option for those interested in environmental work.
April 21, 1010 WINS talks about what groups on ioby are doing for Earth Day, everyday. Take a listen to all three of their 45-second news pieces!
April 13, Blogger Miss Moon threw her support behind a great new project posted on ioby to print their Eating Healthy in Bed-Stuy guide.
March 27, Souldish helped us recruit new innovative ideas and projects.
March 25, Be sure to check out this great article in BushwickBK.com about Trees Not Trash Bushwick's awesome volunteers who have been hard at work converting a lot behind the Bushwick Branch Public Library into a vegetable garden and educational facility for local kids.
December 21, Brian Lehrer invited us back onto Your Uncommon Economic Indicator's. Listen here.
September 10, TIME Magazine's roundup of New Ways to Make a Difference included ioby as good place to start as a volunteering resource for community environmental work. It's true, but it's also a great way to try out micro-giving.
August 30, Treehugger wrote that for environmental volunteer opportunities New Yorkers need not look any further than ioby. So nice of Treehugger to say! Zidee, Sustainability Digest, Recycling Post Today, nachhaltiger.de and Μη μαδάτε την Μαργαρίτα (I have no idea what it says, but it's our very first Danish press!) all picked it up.
August 20, Sheepshead Bites blog asked if Tami's efforts at Prospect Park Lake might inspire anyone to do the same for Sheepshead Bay. (The Brooklyn Paper picked it up.)
August 19, Brownstoner covered the great work of Brooklyn activist Tami Johnson to clean up Prospect Park Lake in collaboration with the Prospect Park Alliance. Tami's work, and that of the American Littoral Society are the two featured actions on ioby's volunteer day of action for Climate Week NYC. Check for updates on ioby projects during Climate Week NYC. (Treehugger, Technorati, and Habana Outpost blog picked it up.)
July 30, Charity Champs makes a great connection for people who are regular online microdonors: you're involved with ioby might begin when you're in your pajamas at home on the computer and gets you outside and volunteering your neighborhood.
July 29, This Old House online magazine takes fixing up your old house to greening up your neighborhood.
July 24, the Examiner's Janelle Adsit suggested that donating to ioby's projects as one way to support NYC's environmental health.
July 17, Climate Community said that ioby was a very cool idea.
June 5, Brandi Colander, the Energy & Air Attorney at Natural Resources Defense Council shouted "In Our Backyards!" and praised our action-oriented platform.
May 28, Grist featured an interview with ioby. One reader on Andy Revkin's New York Times blog Dot Earth commented (#11)that ioby is one innovation that uses online social media to increase local action. Another reader to the San Francisco Chronicle commented about how ioby is an example of how microphilanthropy helps communities. Green Apple Blog echoed by posting our video. More videos from ioby coming soon!
May 26, Columbia University's Climate and Energy Blog Climate Matters discusses the disproportionate burden of environmental problems on low-income neighborhoods and communities of color. They also highlight Hike the Heights on June 6 as a great upcoming project to join. We agree!
May 22, Catalyst, a new magazine from the Pratt Institute, ran a feature interview about ioby and posted it on their Catalyst blog, too.
May 21, Bio Me And You begs of its readers, is your backyard green enough? On Memorial Day, Wine for the Cheap suggests that ioby makes an excellent pairing to earth-conscious vintage.
May 19, Fresh Kills blog talked about our "riff" on NIMBYism and featured pictures from All People's Garden's project to remove debris and from Rockaway Waterfront Alliance's project to install a rainwater harvest system.
On May 15, No Impact Man called us open source environmental activism. We think that's a fancy way of saying, if we all work together we can make a big change. Minutes later (we think), Living Lime in London, Ontario, got really pumped and declared from that moment on his or her push to begin an ioby in Ontario. Lori left a comment on No Impact Man's blog and asked for an ioby in Chi-town.
As you know, ioby's piloting in NYC's five boroughs and immediate surroundings. , so please continue checking back with us. In the meantime, imitation makes us blush. Or, as Lil Wayne might say, that's "called recycling, or R-E-reciting something because you just like it. So you say it just like it. Some say it's biting, but I say it's enlightening."
May 5, North Brooklyn Compost's blog, one of our incredible projects, made a call for people to support the worms by donating through ioby.org. May 8, Neighbors Allied for Good Growth based in Greenpoint-Williamsburg pushed for donations to the composters, too.
On May 4, the climate blog from the American Museum of Natural History wrote about us in a story called In My Backyard, Please...just the kind of iobying we like. Later that day, our buddy at the Underwhelmer posted to his underwhelmed following, one of whom broke free from her ennui to repost it to It's Such a Perfect Day, her sideshow from the Frisky.
We had a brief mention on Curbed (comment #7) to an article called Fun with Urban Farming. (It is so much fun to farm in the city!) After we were on WNYC's Brian Lehrer episode Philanthropy 2.0 we got a little story on their blog Uncommon Economic Indicators.
On January 21, 2009, we announced our initiative first on GreenBrooklyn. Right away, the Drollerdrome picked us up on January 27 and called us "the Happy Meal of environmental action networks." Foodies and locavores, please don't take offense. I think it was meant to be a compliment. We followed up on GreenBrooklyn on May 6 when we launched the site. The day before, May 5, Idealist in NYC had already written on us saying that the "cool thing" about ioby is that we're "so local" (we agree!) and The Green Collective followed up on May 6.
