Greetings All: This past Saturday, at TEDxManhattan, the students and I took the stage and received a STANDING OVATION! What an honor. We revealed our vision for the National Health and Wellness Center here at CS 55 and you heard us loud and clear! Within CS 55, we are already […]
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No one is more grateful and excited about TEDx Manhattan than I am. Be it a participant or a spectator – this is where the magic happens and BIG IDEAS are born and spread. Three years ago, I took the stage and spoke about the history of our work. Since then, we have worked […]
Green Bronx Machine was proud to host White House Chef Bill Yosses and Global Super Star and Celebrity Author / Advocate Reed Alexander to our school where we prepared vegetarian meals using the very ingredients we grew in school via our Tower Gardens. We debuted our very own Mex-I-Can Amer-I-Can […]
Dear friends, family and colleagues: Just this week I learned from Principal Torres that since starting our work at the school, year to date behavioral incidents and out of class time disciplinary actions have been reduced over 50%! In fact, on WPIX TV this week, 4th grader Mousa told all […]
Dear Green Bronx Machine Friends: Thrilled to report that our Founder, Stephen Ritz AKA “El Capitan” met with His Holiness, Pope Francis, last week at The Vatican. El Capitan was named with twenty other delegates to work with Scholas Occurrentes via Global Teacher Award and Varkey Gems. Their intent is […]
Dear Green Bronx Machine Friends, We are thrilled to announce that we have been chosen as the winner of the 2015 TEDx Manhattan Prize. This is a huge honor, and all of you who voted for us were the ones who made it happen – THANK YOU! Check out the […]
Dear Friends of Green Bronx Machine: If you haven’t voted for us yet, please take a moment – voting closes Sunday! Please VOTE GREEN BRONX MACHINE! It only takes a click! http://www.tedxmanhattan.org/2015-tedxmanhattan-award/ Si se puede!
Dear Friends of Green Bronx Machine: We’re thrilled to announce that we are finalists for the TEDxManhattan Award! We need your support! Please VOTE GREEN BRONX MACHINE! It only takes a click! http://www.tedxmanhattan.org/2015-tedxmanhattan-award/ Si se puede!
In the midst of the busy holiday season, we wanted to wish you all well and share a few of the latest developments here at GBM. 2014 has been a great year for us, and we are looking forward to even more in 2015. Best wishes for a wonderful holiday […]
The Health, Wellness, and Learning Center at CS 55 is up and running! We have begun to fill the old library on the 4th floor with Tower Gardens, Growums kits, food education materials, alternative energy systems, and a variety of other science equipment. Though we are only just beginning, we […]
Welcome to our first post live from the garden and campus of CS 55! After an amazing summer at our Food for Others Garden, we’re off to a bold start building the Borough’s FIRST EVER Health, Wellness and Learning Center in the heart of Claremont Village and working with Instituto Thomas Jefferson […]
Celebrating innovative, results-oriented, creative individuals, groups or companies working in the sustainable food and farming field, TEDxManhattan “Changing the Way We Eat” announced Green Bronx Machine the winner of the 2015 TEDxManhattan Award. Stephen Ritz will be joining TEDxManhattan on March 7th and giving a talk on his plans for the […]