City Zoning Turns Green
The 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?
Richard Reiss
An art exhibit in Bedford Stuyvesant works to inspire change
A new exhibit at Skylight Gallery in Brooklyn is showing the work of 27 artists brought together on the theme of sustainability.
How to raise urban chickens
Our friends at ioby.org have created an engaging introduction to raising chickens in New York City. Will there be a local chicken boom?
Barter for knowledge with Trade School
Trade School is New York’s unique creative barter-for-knowledge program. Classes are continuing through March and into April, and creating a class of your own is possible too.
Mayor questions the role of social media in urban planning
A story in the New York Times on Mayor Bloomberg’s speech in Singapore, where he was accepting an award for urban sustainability, noted that the…
1968 on the left, 2012 on the right
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2012/03/22/nyregion/100000001443844/surface-tension-revisited.html
2050 May Include A Pond At Canal and West Broadway
Climate Central, a nonprofit research organization that seeks to bring greater attention to climate studies, has launched a website that allows users to project…
High Line Shows New Designs for the North Section
The High Line Blog features images of the new designs for continuation of the park into the rail yards north of 30th Street.
A Glimpse of the City, 1968
An experimental film from 1968 consisted of a single dolly shot from the middle of the Brooklyn Bridge to the lake in Central Park
Water Tanks: NYC Icon To Become Canvas for Public Art?
The Water Tank Project, an ambitious public art initiative, would make use of one of New York’s most distinctive architectural features to bring attention to the worldwide crisis in safe water.