Innovation and Urban Transformation in NYC
Manhattan Land Values 1923, via Urban Omnibus Urban Omnibus ran an excellent piece last week on innovation and the development of New York City. They interviewed key players from the Regional Plan...
View ArticleUrban Orchards for Public Health
From Ecologist: Every year between June and October, the Hackney Marshes in north-east London are covered with sweet, luscious blackberries. Families bring buckets and collect the free harvest, turning...
View ArticleWind Power Strong, Solar Still Growing
Green Inc. recently ran two separate pieces on trends in alternative energy across the United States. Wind power seems to have fared the recession amazingly well: A record 10,010 megawatts of new wind...
View ArticleSolar Maps for NYC?
Solar Map for San Francisco from sf.solarmap.org Green reports that there is a comprehensive ‘solar map’ in the works for New York City. They quote CUNY’s very own Tria Case and explain that a new...
View ArticleNew Tool for Ecological Services
Water Supply in Banglore, photo credit J. Gronwall via Stockholm Center From the Stockholm Resilience Centre: Following an intense study of agricultural ecosystems near Montreal, a new tool that...
View ArticleWalkable Development in Portland (a Lesson for NYC?)
Image from Streetsblog.org Streetsblog recently ran a nice piece on walkable development in Portland. We may face very different challenges here in NYC, but it looks like we’ve got some lessons to...
View ArticleComposting in the City, Pick-up Service for D.C.
From Springwise: Composting may be the right thing to do for the environment, but it can be hard to get around the smell and the mess—particularly for urbanites without expansive yards. Much like the...
View ArticleAn Energy Bill in the Offing?
Just yesterday The Vine ran a nice piece on the possible directions a Senate energy bill could take in July. The critical issues seem to rest on the ways that oil spill in the gulf will compel...
View ArticleThinking Into the Future: Cities as Complex Systems and the Weight of History
Keri Facer – Learning to live in interesting times from FutureEverything on Vimeo. The video I share with you today comes from one of the keynote speakers at Future Everything, a design and...
View ArticleAs Attention Moves to Senate Energy Bill, Global Coal Boom Continues
From Andy Revkin at Dot Earth: One way to keep perspective amid all the Beltway cogitation over how to keep a climate component in an energy bill is to pay attention to the global coal industry. Coal...
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