NEW YORK CITY — Question: What is New York’s largest export? If you thought "former super models" or "starving artists" or even "world’s best pizza," then you would be incorrect. The correct answer is … (Photo courtesy of Greg Barber)
NEW YORK CITY — Question: What is New York’s largest export? If you thought “former super models” or “starving artists” or even “world’s best pizza,” then you would be incorrect. The correct answer is …
WASTE PAPER. Click on the image above to take the Green City Challenge, and see how you score on this short quiz!
Participants in the 2nd Annual Green City Challenge Race and Family Expo at Union Square Park were quizzed with an array of green questions. They probably were helped by all of the oxygen to their brains from biking. Each time the bicyclists stopped to take a breath at one of the secret challenge sites around lower Manhattan, they had to answer questions to challenge their eco-intelligence.
First-place winners Benay Vynerib and Kyle Bullen of Candle 79 (a much-loved vegan restaurant not far from the race site) knew their sustainability statistics best and aced the challenge.
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(From left) Trophy designer Lev Radunsky; Benay Vynerib and Kyle Bullen, winners of New York’s Green City Bike Race Challenge; and John Messerschmidt, vice president of operations at Green City Challenge. (Courtesy of Greg Barber)[/caption]
Not only did they win casino online free memberships to car sharing service Zipcar along wth a $75 dollar credit, but they also left with custom-designed trophies by Lev Radunsky of Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The trophies are made from reclaimed spruce and Douglas fir and finished with a plant-based oil. The text is printed in nontoxic ink by a stamp custom made using natural rubber. They can be seen as trophies or as a pair of sustainable bookends, according casino online to Radunsky.
Lev Radunsky of Brooklyn designed the winners’ trophies from reclaimed spruce and Douglas fir and finished them with a natural, plant-based oil. (Courtesy of Greg Barber)[/caption]
Everyone on the 11 participating teams won gift bags created by Ecobags and filled with products and gift certificates from local businesses such as Happy Baby, Cleanwell, Raw Revolution, From War To Peace, Vitalah, Tropiclean, Primo Health Solutions, Tekserve, and Green Apple Cleaners. The total value of each of these gift bags was estimated at more than $100.
Race organizer Greg Barber said it was a rewarding experience not only for the winners but also for the spectators who came out to cheer them on and who also were given prizes for attending. “It was a perfect day with big crowds, great weather, terrific prizes,” he said, “and everyone loved our vendor table. Plus we educated a lot of people on how to be more sustainable and greener New Yorkers.”
If you take the quiz, or even if you just skip down to check the correct answers, you finally will find out what those New York Pizza boxes are actually made of.
To read more about the race, check out:
NYC Bike Race Is About Being Green, not Fast
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