Category Archives: Lifestyle

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Klaus Jacob on the future of a post-Sandy New York CityMay 3, 2013How do we effectively prepare NYC for another 'Hurricane Sandy'? Geophysicist Klaus Jacob thinks we should move out of the flood zones altogether.
 
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Stormwater Management WorkshopMarch 22, 2013 Learn how to conserve water and help prevent pollution from stormwater by discussing topics such as rainwater harvesting, swales, rain gardens, enhanced tree pits, permeable paving, and more.
 
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Free trees from the NYRPMarch 20, 2013The New York Restora­tion Project, the Bette Midler-founded, com­mu­nity garden-protecting orga­ni­za­tion has announced its annual Spring Tree Give­away. The NYRP, in part­ner­ship with Toy­ota, will be giv­ing away 4,500 trees over thirty sep­a­rate give­away days from March until May. Reg­is­ter here to get a tree and learn more about the restric­tions you have to agree to before [...]
 
A new word for NYC: bioswalesMarch 13, 2013In the after­math of Hur­ri­cane Sandy the issue of New York’s vul­ner­a­bil­ity to flood­ing has stepped to the fore­front of media con­cerns. And rightly so. With a moun­tain of sci­en­tific data indi­cat­ing the future holds increased threats from global warm­ing, a coastal city like New York can ill afford to ignore the prob­lem of flood­ing. But while [...]
 
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Put sustainable city development on the national agendaNovember 13, 2012After the storm, Kaizhong Huang's take on sustainability in the national arena
 
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Sandy volunteer info, day 8November 8, 2012The city has teamed with AirBnB so you can offer space in your home to dis­placed fel­low New York­ers by sign­ing up online. NYC Ser­vice, Occupy Sandy and other vol­un­teer groups (includ­ing Sandy Help, shown above, fea­tured early on in the NYT) con­tinue to pro­vide cru­cial sup­port to peo­ple in dis­tress, par­tic­u­larly by reach­ing home­bound elderly that remain with­out power or heat. [...]
 
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Hurricane Sandy city relief effort: volunteer opportunitiesNovember 3, 2012  The clean up from Hur­ri­cane Sandy has just started; if you’d like to help, here are connections: A con­tin­u­ously updated list of requests for help from orga­ni­za­tions around the city. http://​inte​roc​cupy​.net/​o​c​c​u​p​y​s​a​n​d​y​/​s​a​n​d​y​-​v​o​l​u​n​t​e​e​r​-​u​p​d​a​t​e​-​f​o​r​-​s​a​t​-​1​1​3​-​s​u​n​-​1​14/ ___ Another list of vol­un­teer oppor­tu­ni­ties: http://​www​.time​out​.com/​n​e​w​y​o​r​k​/​o​w​n​-​t​h​i​s​-​c​i​t​y​-​b​l​o​g​/​h​o​w​-​t​o​-​h​e​l​p​-​i​n​-​n​e​w​-​y​o​r​k​-​c​i​t​y​-​a​f​t​e​r​-​h​u​r​r​i​c​a​n​e​-​s​a​ndy ___ By neigh­bor­hood (list under construction): Staten Island was hard hit: http://​www​.silive​.com/​n​e​w​s​/​i​n​d​e​x​.​s​s​f​/​2​0​1​2​/​1​1​/​h​o​w​_​y​o​u​_​c​a​n​_​h​e​l​p​_​s​t​a​t​e​n​_​i​s​l​a​n​d​.​h​tml http://​gothamist​.com/​2​0​1​2​/​1​1​/​0​2​/​r​u​n​n​e​r​s​_​e​v​e​r​y​o​n​e​_​h​e​r​e​s​_​h​o​w​_​t​o​_​h​e​l​p​.​php Red Hook was hard [...]
 
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Pre-storm roundup: wind map, trains stop at 7 PM, mayor orders evacuation of zone AOctober 28, 2012As of noon, the mayor has ordered an evac­u­a­tion for res­i­dents in the most vul­ner­a­ble areas of the city, ‘Zone A.’ [Because of demand, this embed­ded map may be slow to load.] More info below map inset. The sub­ways shut down at 7 PM tonight, with likely ser­vice restora­tion begin­ning on Wednes­day. As noted by the MTA’s [...]
 
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A rare bastion for a true “first nature” park in the BronxOctober 17, 2012How can the 50 acre segment of "old growth" forest in the New York Botanical Garden, comprised of trees and wildlife that have been a part of New York since the days of Henry Hudson, be protected and preserved from the second-hand effects of urbanization?
 
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Learn how to design a roof gardenSeptember 6, 2012Have you ever won­dered how to design a roof gar­den? Across the city, more rooftop space is turn­ing into grow­ing space, and so the New York Botan­i­cal Gar­den is offer­ing a three hour intro­duc­tion on how to land­scape for rooftops. The class will cover the mate­ri­als nec­es­sary, the most suit­able plants and the tech­nol­ogy that may be [...]
 
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Get to know your local greenmarketJuly 25, 2012NYC now has 54 farmers markets covering every borough, with over 230 local farms and suppliers participating. Here's a comprehensive guide to buying local food outside this summer.
 
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Can you kickstart a city?May 15, 2012Is crowdfunding website Kickstarter a good way to redesign cities? Alexandra Lange thinks not. In a provocative post at Design Observer, she says: "A suitable funding platform for a watch is not a suitable funding platform for a city.
 
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New York’s hidden green secretMay 7, 2012A talk on Earth Day pulled back the curtain on something we thought we all knew: the MTA. Almost as inherent to MTA city travel as the sound of screeching brakes is the griping and groaning we do while on board.
 
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City Zoning Turns GreenMay 3, 2012The City Council just approved a far reaching set of zoning changes to smooth the path for building owners to adopt new, green technologies. How could this transform the city in the next ten years?
 
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2050 May Include A Pond At Canal and West BroadwayMarch 15, 2012  Cli­mate Cen­tral, a non­profit research orga­ni­za­tion that seeks to bring greater atten­tion to cli­mate stud­ies, has launched a web­site that allows users to project ris­ing sea lev­els on a map of the United States. The map tool includes a slider that allows you to scroll for­ward through decades of ris­ing sea lev­els and fol­low the ocean incur­sion across [...]
 
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Food Stamping the Green MarketsJanuary 4, 2012More peo­ple are using food stamps at New York City Green Mar­kets, as WNYC reported this morn­ing. While there are dif­fer­ent ways to present the find­ings, with some peo­ple all together crit­i­cal of the claim because more New York­ers (and Amer­i­cans) are on food stamps in gen­eral these days, I can see the sil­ver lin­ing. And [...]
 
Meetup : Biomimicry in the Big City: Can Nature Inspire Cleantech Solutions? — Nov.3rdNovember 3, 2011 Humans have always looked to nature for inspiration in industry and progress. By observing nature, we have developed better machines, materials and buildings to improve our world.Source: www.meetup.com, via City Atlas
 
A Block Party Without a Block: A Community Survives Long After Its Homes Are RazedNovember 1, 2011Touching story of the resilience of a community that faced displacement from one of the first urban renewal projects in NYC over 60 years ago.Source: www.thirteen.org, via City Atlas