Curtis Ravenel
To really understand how a company is positioned for the future, you have to know how it’s managing its environmental impact.
Klaus Jacob thinks the city should be planning even farther ahead
A child in the city may live many years past the planning program outlined in the city’s report on Sandy.
Klaus Jacob on the future of a post-Sandy New York City
How do we effectively prepare NYC for another ‘Hurricane Sandy’? Geophysicist Klaus Jacob thinks we should move out of the flood zones altogether.
Mariellé Anzelone
There are few places in America where you can you lose yourself in a shaded forest, take a twenty-minute break to enjoy empanadas at a Mexican bodega, and then return to the wilderness to finish your hike. That’s what we did with ecologist Mariellé Anzelone…
Claire Weisz
“…Our cities all over the country–from Detroit to New Orleans–present the best opportunity for lowering our carbon footprint…”
Hester Street Collaborative
“Design allows for the different learning styles to be celebrated and exercised…we see our students keep coming back to learn and they get engaged more and more.”
Mary Miss
“I really have this fantasy, this image, that a community could develop that begins to picture New York in a bigger way.”
Pathways in Technology High School
“For every student who comes to P-TECH, they’re going to be a great leader in the city, in another ten years–and we’re so proud of them. But it’s also about the whole economic development of New York City… ”
Klaus Lackner
“And so, in essence, this is a CO2 pump: it takes CO2 from the air and pumps it and delivers it into this stream. This will work over and over for years and years.”
Lara Penin and Eduardo Staszowski
“If we want society to change, we should look at ourselves, and learn from whatever is already working.”
Nilda Mesa
“More trees, more plants, more – OK, in my big picture thing – I would love to see more raptors in the city.”
Erin Barnes
“The first thing you can do is take a look around. What does the block where you live look like? What does the block where you work look like?”
Projjal Dutta
“New York is livable–it is more than livable, it’s wonderful — because of density. And not just the density of people, but I think the density of opportunity.”
Diana Balmori
“I would like within the next ten years for the whole surface of the city to be totally porous… ”