Don’t let our city trees suffer the abuse that comes with an urban lifestyle. Learn how to build affordable and appropriate tree guards to protect the street trees on your block.

Guess what? We're going to publish pictures on a brand new section of our website of projects that people have built using Build it Green NYC! supplies.

From recycled kitchens to East Village restaurants, from cool furniture to new art galleries, please send it in! The more great customer ideas we can get up there, the better.

A lot of people don't know that Build it Green!NYC is part of a network of New York environmental non-profits under the umbrella of the Community Environmental Center, an organization that provides weatherization and energy savings to under-served local communities.

Over the weekend our friends at Buffalo ReUse gathered hundreds of volunteers to help deconstruct a home as part of ABC’s show “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition”. The house came down in 15-17 hours, depending on if you count the TV cheesing.

There's a new bar/restaurant called "The Manhattan Inn" in Greenpoint, built almost entirely from stuff from Build It Green!

The New York City Century Bike Tour is coming up this Sunday, September 13th and your very own BIG!NYC will be hosting the composting and recycling for the event. There will be 6000 riders expected this year, that means quite a bit of recyclable and compostable material. It also means that we will need a LOT of help to take care of it.

Over here at BigNYC we have decided to take the logical next step...hands on educational programming. In the coming months, we will be offering numerous weekly workshops here at the warehouse, including PAINT MIXING, VERMACULTURE MADE EASY, CAT SCRATCHING POST, BOOKCASE, AND LOFT BUILDING...

Build it Green! NYC would like to thank the folks over at THE L MAGAZINE for honoring us with the title of "Best Green Salvage Construction Store" in their annual NYC Green Awards.

If you are concerned about New York's environment, the Environmental Advocates of New York are an amazing resource. Sign up for Environmental Advocates' newsletter to keep up to date on what is going on in Albany - I read every one they send me.

Environmental Advocates website: http://www.eany.org/