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Keep it clean: Respect Prospect

deanna zandt — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:22:41 +0000

Because I have tons of time on my hands (*cough, cough), I decided I’d start a new documentation and, hopefully, advocacy project: Respect Prospect. (shoutout to Candace for the name!) It’s like this: I go to Prospect Park almost every morning with Izzy Louise to run around, because dogs are allowed off-leash from 5AM to 9AM. But! There’s often so much garbage strewn about the park that I can’t let her off the leash — unlike dogs with sturdier bellies, she gets sick from eating garbage. A lot of other people are frustrated with this, too. Garbage means more unsavory rodents and other creatures hanging about, which could mean more disease spreading. No good and no fun for anyone.

Park officials aren’t super responsive (besides saying that closed dumps on a holiday mean that the park gets trashed, oh well), and no one’s sure what to do. At the very least, to start with, we can document it when we see it:

Email or text pictures (or video!) of garbage in the park to pics@respectprospect.com
Have a look at the Respect Prospect blog, where photos will be posted
Follow @respectprospect on Twitter, and tag tweets about the problem with #respectprospect
Check out the Respect Prospect Flickr stream.
New! Download this PDF and print out little cards to hand out at the park. These print onto any biz cards using the #8371 Avery template. I used this clean-edge version from Avery, #8871.
Questions and other inquiries can be sent to info@respectprospect.com

Next week at Ithaca College

deanna zandt — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:58:31 +0000

I’m excited to head upstate next week, back to some old stomping grounds in Ithaca, NY. I’m participating in the Park Center for Independent Media’s symposium, and I’ll be presenting with David Mathison some thoughts on rapid response and journalism via social networking tools like Twitter. Yippie! It’ll also be good to see a bunch of friends and colleagues — Roberto Lovato (who is putting his faith in my Dunkin-Donuts-fueled driving skills, bless his heart), Tracy Van Slyke, Robert Greenwald, David Cohn, Amanda Michel… the list goes on and on.

Then a day or two of downtime with the parents while I’m in the neighborhood, which always does the soul some good. But alas, it’ll be back to the city to resume apartment hunting madness. Anyone have any leads on a dog-friendly 2 bedroom apartment in Brooklyn?

I’m baaaaaack.

deanna zandt — Tue, 27 May 2008 22:32:26 +0000

I’m back on the ol’ Brooklyn couch, and it feels pretty good to be home. Not to say that I’m not already pining away for the sweet blossomed air and generous spirit of Berlin! Along those lines, check out my new project documenting some thoughts from the trip: http://chachawhereareyou.com/