http://sustainableflatbush.
This website highlights one neighborhood in Brooklyn, Flatbush, and their mission to provide equal access to affordable housing, open space, responsible and sustainable energy practices and to healthy food. It is a small scale local based group that looks at community building and prioritizing its people.
http://www.businessinsider.com/hurricane-sandy-photos-of-new-york-subway-flooded-2012-10
http://www.businessinsider.com/hurricane-sandy-abandoned-mta-photos-2012-10
http://www.thefineyounggentleman.com/current-events/hurricane-sandy-nyc-into-the-dead-zone/
http://theweek.com/article/index/235578/10-fake-photos-of-hurricane-sandy
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2012/10/hurricane_sandy.html
http://www.elegran.com/news/2012/10/long-way-ahead-for-nyc-recovery-after-hurricane-sandy
http://nymag.com/nymag/letters/hurricane-sandy-editors-letter-2012-11/
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/sandy-kills-19-new-yorkers-article-1.1194971
http://regulus-starnotes.blogspot.com/2012/11/more-new-york-and-jersey-shore-post.html
A great institute we may decide to do work with in the future!
The CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities (CISC) works to realize cities as part of the solution to global sustainability challenges. By merging the science of sustainability with innovative public programming, we examine opportunities available to cities—and their residents—for proactive responses to on-going environmental change. We harness the potential of formal and informal means to inspire a new generation of environmental thinkers. In doing so, we seek to understand and influence the evolution of the urban environment, while connecting the CUNY community, decision makers and the general public to these critical issues.
CISC explores the nature and complexity of cities through the following themes and questions:
Consumption: What are the elements, patterns, and impacts of urban consumption and how do they change over time?
Vulnerability and Resilience: How are cities impacted by global environmental change and what are their response capacities?
Ecosystem Services: What services do urban ecosystems provide to cities and how can their maintenance and restoration benefit urban areas?
October 3, 2pm
The James Gallery
City as Living Laboratory
David Chapin, Cindi Katz, and Mary Miss
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Find more info here: http://centerforthehumanities.org/james-gallery/events/City-as-Living-Laboratory) with relevant lists and departments.
Mary Miss’s project City as Living Laboratory aims to establish Broadway as the “green corridor” of New York City.
Exploring the city as an urban ecosystem, with nature everywhere and in action at all times, it emphasizes the ways in which innumerable small decisions shape the environment we inhabit today, and exposes behavioral choices which have a decisive impact on our collective future.
Co-sponsored by Environmental Psychology, The Graduate Center, CUNY and Mary Miss/City as Living Laboratory (MM/CaLL)
Free and open to the public. All events take place at The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Ave btwn 34th & 35th. The building and the venues are fully accessible. For more information please visit http://centerforthehumanities.org/ or call 212.817.2005 or e-mail ch@gc.cuny.edu
Diagram representation of personal space limits. Inspired by Reaction-bubble.png by Libb Thims (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Personal_Space.svg)
The Lower East Side’s version of the High Line! http://thelowline.org/about
In 185, physician John Snow set about tending to cholera victims in London. The epidemic continued to spread and spread. What could be done? Snow took the innovative approach to map the cases he found after noticing that some neighborhoods had a large amount of cases while some houses remained untouched. The infamous John Snow Map changed the future of geography, public health, and environmental design, when its findings showed that the culprit was a tainted well.
Published by C.F. Cheffins, Lith, Southhampton Buildings, London, England, 1854 in Snow, John. On the Mode of Communication of Cholera, 2nd Ed, John Churchill, New Burlington Street, London, England, 1855.
Per the Creative Commons website:
The Creative Commons copyright licenses and tools forge a balance inside the traditional “all rights reserved” setting that copyright law creates. Our tools give everyone from individual creators to large companies and institutions a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work. The combination of our tools and our users is a vast and growing digital commons, a pool of content that can be copied, distributed, edited, remixed, and built upon, all within the boundaries of copyright law.
How is our intellectual property sustainable through copyright? Where does copyright fail to sustain a just world?
Kortenaerkade 12, 2518 AX The Hague, The Netherlands
0) Abstract
1) Witty introduction
2) Introduction with arguments and summary findings
3) Theory / literature review
4) Literature review / theory
a. History
b. Main bodies of literature to respond to
5) Methods – how you got your data, how much of it, why that way
6) Analysis (if you include it) – what you did with your data
7) Findings – what I found
8) Discussion – use theory and literature to look at your findings
9) Conclusion – implications for policy, theory, and/or social change
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