Category Archives: Ideas

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“A New Alignment:” the secret success story of regional railMarch 12, 2013Train travel has increased in popularity more than any other mode of domestic transportation, outpacing both aviation and automobiles; in 2011, Amtrak reached an all-time record of 31 million passengers.
 
How to Score a Bike LoverFebruary 19, 2013Valentine’s Day may be over but the spring cycling days are still ahead! Here are some tips, cour­tesy of BikeNYC​.org and Trans­porta­tion Alter­na­tives, to com­bine everyone’s two favorite things: bik­ing and romance. Thanks to Trans­porta­tion Alter­na­tives for putting this list together. 1. Carbo-Load, Carbo-Love If you lis­ten to Lady and the Tramp, pasta is a food for lovers. Luck­ily, [...]
 
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New in the net for NYC: Community Supported FisheriesOctober 10, 2012Community Supported Fisheries (CSFs) are the cool new twist on CSAs, and the way to end environmentally harmful international fishing practices.
 
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Transportation Alternatives seeks public input on upcoming Play StreetsSeptember 12, 2012Trans­porta­tion Alter­na­tives, the advo­cacy orga­ni­za­tion per­haps most respon­si­ble for the open­ing of New York streets to pedes­tri­ans and bicy­cles, is hold­ing a series of meet­ings next week to let the pub­lic, and com­mu­nity orga­ni­za­tions, learn more about the Play Streets pro­gram, which is part of the city’s PlaNYC ini­tia­tive for a health­ier New York. The pro­gram allows [...]
 
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Locating the Sacred: a new Asian American arts festivalSeptember 8, 2012The Locating the Sacred Festival is a series of New York City events that showcase a range of Asian American artists, from dancers and musicians to writers and thinkers, who use art to explore what constitutes the sacred.
 
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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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Textile Lab: Color palette from Greenpoint, BrooklynAugust 31, 2012At the Green­point Green­mar­ket we cre­ated dyes with rose­mary and cilantro from Osczepin­ski Farm, Goshen, NY. Farmer Joe from Health­way Farms gave us some red cab­bage to make dye with! Here is the color palette:     Below are pic­tures from our visit:    
 
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A supergroup forms in the anti-fracking movementAugust 31, 2012Sean Lennon and Yoko Ono joined with activist Mark Ruffalo at a Manhattan press conference this week, adding their voices to the anti-fracking movement at a time when Governor Cuomo is in the late stages of a fateful determination about permitting fracking in New York State.
 
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Textile Lab Visits Fort Greene Park In Brooklyn!August 23, 2012We had a suc­cess­ful visit to the Green­mar­ket at the Fort Greene Park last Sat­ur­day. We made dye with  marigolds from Rex­croft Farms in Athens NY, car­rot tops from Conuco Farm in New Paltz NY and mint from J Gle­bocki Farms LLC. We also met many peo­ple from the Fort Greene neigh­bor­hood. There were many ques­tions about the [...]
 
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Manhattan’s East Side waterfront gets some kayaksAugust 23, 2012Two hun­dred years ago, launch­ing a small boat from the East Side of Man­hat­tan for an after­noon row or pad­dle would have been ordi­nary. But in mod­ern times, even as improved water qual­ity has sparked a resur­gence of boat­ing around NYC, the East Side of Man­hat­tan has been left out. Intre­pid kayak­ers have been barred from the [...]
 
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Summer Streets wraps up the 2012 season with some Double Dutch actionAugust 22, 2012For three Saturdays in August, the city opened lengths of Park Avenue and other normally busy thoroughfares for people and bikes. And salsa, tai chi, double-dutch and ziplines.
 
Warm Up Saturdays at MoMA PS1August 21, 2012A Sat­ur­day at MoMA PS1 in the sum­mer is not your aver­age visit to a museum. Sure, the museum is open, but once you walk in, you may be dis­tracted by the thump­ing DJ mix com­ing from the back of the build­ing. Wel­come to Warm Up, MoMA PS1′s annual sum­mer rave. Fea­tur­ing this year’s Young Archi­tec­ture Award [...]
 
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The Surfrider Foundation takes on plastic bagsAugust 17, 2012Our reporter Hallie Miller goes a meeting of the Surfrider Foundation's new NYC branch. Because, yes, we have beaches. And, unfortunately, plastic bags.
 
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Bike share pushed back till springAugust 17, 2012As reported on Transportation Nation this morning, the New York City Bike Share program launch date has been pushed back to next spring.
 
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The Bronx River, restoredJuly 22, 2012The Bronx River is coming back to it's former beauty, piece by piece. Michael Kimmelman of the New York Times shows how it is changing.
 
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Asparagus with Chive FlowersJune 4, 2012Our first in a recipe series with Annie Novak: Broccoli raab and asparagus combines the best bitter and sweet flavors of a springtime garden, and are local in greenmarkets now.
 
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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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The bike station map arrivesMay 11, 2012Today, the city released the loca­tions of the much antic­i­pated sta­tions for the new bike share pro­gram, as shown on an inter­ac­tive map. As noted on Trans­porta­tion Nation, there are 420 sta­tions across parts of Man­hat­tan and Brook­lyn, with more to be added in 2013. The new bike share pro­gram has a heavy empha­sis on rid­ing [...]