While you may think of New York City as a town of exhaust spewing traffic, bright lights and garbage strewn sidewalks, it is actually among the greenest cities in the country.

New Yorkers are already a pretty green bunch. We use a lot of mass transit, live in tiny, energy efficient apartments and the majority of us don’t own cars — even those supposedly Earth-saving ones from Tesla. But, certainly we could all do a little better. We thought we’d channel some Portlandia, and see if we could come up with some ways we could support the local tech economy and be a little greener in the process.