Sidewalk Labs launches Link, more to come
Can a new initiative from Daniel Doctoroff and Google advance the civic conversation on climate change?
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.
An interview with yerdle’s Carl Tashian
The barter site yerdle aims to “reduce the durable consumer goods we all need to buy by 25%.” Because about a quarter of the goods in a big box store can be easily reused and shared.
An introduction to the sharing economy
Can the sharing economy help solve global problems like climate change?
New York leads global cities in adopting LED bulbs
By 2017, the dull glow of New York City streetlights will be replaced by the bright white light of LED bulbs.
Citywide, stronger business case for green buildings
The belief that business and the environment cannot thrive together is challenged by the success of several green residential developments in NYC.
Diogenes searches for answers from Google
Public critiques and counter-campaigns have drawn attention to Google’s corporate slogan “Don’t be evil,” pointing out their hypocrisy and subverting the slogan with the protest rally: “Don’t fund evil.”
The future of the Brooklyn Navy Yard
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.
Who really owns that brand in your shopping cart?
Can this app give you more control over your life?
Book review: The City and The Coming Climate
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?
Climate Institute CEO John Topping optimistic about changing climate
Can we “slow climate change until it is within the capacity of natural ecosystems and humans to adapt”?
Watch midtown Manhattan’s explosive growth (and hear about it from Paul Newman)
Cube Cities traces the lifetime of midtown Manhattan through growth animation
Book review: Terra Nova: The New World After Oil, Cars, and Suburbs
Cheap oil built the modern American landscape. Now what? Eric Sanderson has some ideas.
Urban foraging: a lost art?
In the world of NYC foraging, appetites, and sometimes tensions, are high. Here’s our guide to the landscape.
MTA to roll out interactive subway maps
By the end of the year, the MTA has announced it will install interactive, touch-screen maps for helping travelers and commuters navigate the city’s latticework…
New Yorkers forge ahead with rooftop farming
New York has never settled for second place, and the city already has the largest rooftop farms in the world.