Brooklyn-based tech startup BlocPower is bringing environmentally friendly green-energy solutions to Brownsville, one of the poorest neighborhoods in Brooklyn. They use cutting-edge data analysis to lower costs and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the neighborhoods buildings. Learn more about the company, its founder, and its goals in this short report from THIRTEEN.

An innovative start-up is targeting a low-tech problem with high-tech solutions. With about 70% of New York City’s greenhouse gas emissions coming from its buildings, for Brooklyn native Donnel Baird the solution is simple: bring green power to those who need it most, block by block. Baird is the founder of BlocPower, a Brooklyn-based company working to green American inner-cities using cutting-edge data analysis and green energy solutions. Baird takes the #NYCRising crew door to door in Brownsville, Brooklyn, one of the poorest neighborhoods in New York City, to see his vision already coming to life with an unprecedented number of solar-panel installations in a single community. What would it take to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. by two to three percent in five years?

The Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club is a small group of community and environmental activists who, by regularly canoeing through the E.P.A. superfunded Gowanus Canal, raise awareness on the heavily polluted state of the water stream, and spark conversations on how to fix it. Learn more about the club in this video from our friends at BRIC TV.

Formed in 1999, the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club was named for its purpose: to encourage the much needed dredging of the Gowanus Canal. Today, the organization is still pushing the EPA cleanup to continue, demanding safety ladders throughout the canal, and raising awareness to the state of the canal, and providing waterfront access and education to the public.

The Cake Pusher is a somewhat "bakery speakeasy" in that each of its locations are tucked away in office buildings without signs or other forms of advertising to attract walk-in customers. You need to know its there before going to get a cake made. In this video from Time Out New York, hear all about the company from baker/owner Tim Washington.

If you're looking for the most addicting cake in NYC, Tim Washington has got you covered. Access to this secret bakery requires being rung up, and picking up your cake at a dispensary themed bake shop. It's the cake that keeps calling you.