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The city has launched the second season of NYC CoolRoofs, a program is designed to get property owners to reduce energy by applying white reflective coating on building rooftops.

Schools like Bedford Village School in Bedstuy will be getting more green on their grounds. Related NewsVoice of the People for Apr. 11, 2011Mike scores Nets tickets Goldfeder: The City Council's residency scandal not so simpleNYC set to fight census numbers: BloomyMerchants gripe about restaurant rules The city is getting greener thanks to grants just awarded to 29 schools to create garden classrooms.

Diahann Billings-Burford is the nation's first-ever municipal Chief Service Officer, and the leader of NYC Service - the City's initiative to promote a new era of service and volunteerism. With more than a decade of experience working in the nonprofit sector, she oversees the implementation of nearly 40 service initiatives. Diahann's post is part of our week-long celebration of Powerful Women who give pro bono, for National Volunteer Week.

Twenty-five women glide across the wooden floor in Harlem’s Pelham Fritz Recreation Center on a recent Wednesday morning—just as they do every Wednesday, and on Mondays and Saturdays as well.

Shape Up NYC classes are taught by expert fitness instructors who know how to make fitness fun.

The kickoff events for the free fitness challenge were held throughout the five boroughs over the past week. Participants set goals and got measured for height, weight, strength, and flexibility. In April, they will get measured once more, and the top three “most improved” will win prizes.

Don’t let your wallet stop you from making some real changes to kick off 2011. NY1 Health & Fitness reporter Kafi Drexel has more on a way you can find free classes all over the city and all you have to do is step up to the challenge.

A TimeBank is a network that individuals can join to use their time doing a service for someone else in exchange for another TimeBank member doing something for them. People register and indicate both the kinds of services they would like to get and the kinds of services they can offer. Spend an hour; earn an hour. Get a service; give a service. It’s pretty simple.

Mayor paints the one millionth square foot of New York roof space white to mark effort to slash energy bills.

Mayor Bloomberg found himself involved in a whitewash Wednesday. But he was covering a rooftop and not a scandal. Hizzoner wielded a paintbrush to slap a reflective white coating to the 1 millionth square foot of rooftop as a part of the NYC CoolRoofs program.