An alternative to cap and trade for the Clean Power Plan
Tomorrow Obama will announce a new plan to reduce greenhouse gases. One way that states might meet their expected emission limits is to implement fee-and-dividend policies.
Tomorrow Obama will announce a new plan to reduce greenhouse gases. One way that states might meet their expected emission limits is to implement fee-and-dividend policies.
By 2017, the dull glow of New York City streetlights will be replaced by the bright white light of LED bulbs.
The belief that business and the environment cannot thrive together is challenged by the success of several green residential developments in NYC.
How will the historic site–New York’s largest and oldest industrial facility–look in a year? In ten? We take a look at one new, “green” piece of the industrial fabric.
New York has persevered through two heat waves so far in summer 2013, including a day that broke the Con Ed record for peak energy use. When will we experience the next heat wave and how bad will it be?
The president wants everyone to be a climate change communicator.
Is Tesla’s market victory cause to celebrate for those who mourned the death of the electric car?
The franchise’s recent release, the first in over a decade, claims to be most realistic simulation of urbanism and planning yet, while still remaining gamer-approved.
Audi’s e-gas initiative makes use of surplus wind power to synthesize fuel from waste CO2 — theoretically, a ‘win-win.’
It has become all-too-sexy to throw a few apps at a societal problem and hope that it goes away. But how do we make the jump from knowledge to real solutions?
New construction and renovation plans aplenty in NYC’s health and education sectors, but will the planners keep their promises for sustainable development?
Simple, cost-effective environmental retrofitting of public housing is well within the realm of possibility.
With powerful storm surges costing the New York Metropolitan Area more and more each year, it is clear that a new flood protection system is necessary. Has it now become economically responsible from a cost-benefit standpoint?
We should not automatically view parks as being environmentally friendly by their nature…
Expanding our definition of sustainability to include not only environmental but also economic and societal issues.
Image: Foster+Partners The Hearst Tower, designed by the acclaimed British architect, Norman Foster, is a fairly recent addition to the NYC skyline. If you are…
How natural is “natural”? Asking us to reconsider the human element in the creation of NYC’s “natural” landscapes.