Energetic links
Photo: Yale students play eight simultaneous games of Energetic in a tournament, November 15, 2019 “I kept thinking, ‘Oh, they thought of that? Wow, they…
Richard Reiss
Energetic teachers and students
Accurate information about energy is important. To prevent climate change from getting worse, we have to build new infrastructure quickly and for that to happen,…
City-scale climate education for NYC
The top 10% by income – in New York, about 860,000 people – can begin to contribute answers. We need a war effort, and New Yorkers can lead it.
We turned the future of New York City into a board game
“I am evangelizing about the game to fellow faculty at Vanderbilt.” Jonathan Gilligan “Energetic is an invaluable energy policy tool for understanding the complexity of…
Percent for Climate, a proposal for NYC
Our idea is to duplicate existing Percent for Art programs, which are currently part of the City’s budget process and the MTA’s budget process, and…
British scientist gives best human rights talk of the year
“This is not about just incremental change. This is about whole system change. And this applies to all of us, whatever sphere of influence we have.”
Dust and people, past and future
For a thoughtful, creative person coming of age in a time of daunting ecological challenge, how does one make sense of the present moment? One…
The jetstream and the potholes
The country is in a deep freeze today, but in NYC it’s the yo-yoing temperatures that stand out. Meterologists wonder if a stuttering jet stream, caused by declining Arctic sea ice, is behind the swings.
Tacloban and New York
Typhoon Haiyan is a glimpse of what a densely populated world colliding with a radically changing climate system could look like.
The President visits P-TECH
Amidst the continued turbulence of his second term, President Obama will arrive in Brooklyn today to visit P-TECH, the innovative high school that counts IBM, CUNY and the city as partners. P-TECH was profiled in City Atlas, soon after opening.