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Congestion pricing can be much more than just a subway-fixing fund. It could also enable the electrification of the city’s entire bus fleet – a move that would save fuel costs, reduce the city’s carbon emissions and improve air quality for millions of New Yorkers that live, work and learn along the city’s maze of bus routes.

New York is combating a food waste crisis, with many establishments throwing away countless tons of food each day. This issue is exacerbated during the holiday season. Fortunately, the restaurant industry is helping New Yorkers reduce this through a variety of practices.

Film and TV production can be glamorous and it plays an important role in our local economy. It can also be wasteful, using fuel-guzzling generators, bulldozing sets and filling landfills with props and other leftovers from film shoots. Now, the industry that brought Technicolor to the world is institutionalizing sustainable practices on multiple fronts.

As we all know, traditional pesticides contain toxic chemicals that are harmful to people and our environment. One of the more interesting sustainable alternatives we recently learned about is the small and colorful ladybug.

Nature has always had a part in the world of art. Nowadays, art has become a method of spreading awareness of climate change through all senses rather than simply reading about its impact.

With 400 breweries statewide, beer is a big business in the State of New York. However, climate change is already affecting brewers. The Oxford Companion to Beer notes that the price of ingredients is “beginning to rise as the agriculture industry is affected by changing weather patterns.” Some brewers have been fighting climate change for decades.

Permaculture, a compound of the words permanent and agriculture, is about melding sustainable production with sustainable consumption. Environmentalists Bill Mollison and David Holmgren created the concept in their 1978 book “Permaculture One,” as an alternative approach to agriculture and community design and this idea is taking root here in New York’s rural and urban centers

Regenerative agriculture is a farming practice in which plants and the soil that nourishes them take care of each other. This practice brings benefits to our environment by pulling carbon out of the atmosphere into the soil.