Floyd Bennett Field’s shoreline got a much needed sprucing up on Oct. 15 as boy and cub scout troops from throughout Brooklyn were turned into environmental warriors.Source: www.brooklyndaily.com, via City Atlas
Questions arise as to whether the wind and solar power industries could continue growing quickly without government tax credits and other incentives.Source: www.nytimes.com, via City Atlas
Privately owned public spaces, or POPs, are under the spotlight, thanks to the Occupy Wall Street protests in Zuccotti Park.Source: www.dnainfo.com, via City Atlas
Don’t bother booking a plane ticket—these iconic destinations only exist in our favorite movies, books, TV shows, games, and songs. Complex.com: The original buyer’s guide for men.Source: www.complex.com, via City Atlas
A new study analyzing what is needed to convert the world’s energy supplies to clean and sustainable sources says that it can be done with today’s technology at costs roughly comparable to conventional energy.Source: www.sciencedaily.com, via City Atlas
Photos from the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge.Source: mrnyc.blogspot.com, via City Atlas
The Department of Transportation presented the findings of its five-year study of transportation in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood at a packed public meeting last night.Source: www.streetsblog.org, via City Atlas
Your startups can change the world! 4 trends that are paving the way for “civic startups” and 4 models that companies are pursuing.Source: www.slideshare.net, via City Atlas
Measuring corporations’ operational greenness undercuts the more important task of assessing their advocacy in the fight to curb climate change.Source: www.grist.org, via City Atlas
It’s going to take more than wishful thinking to convince Americans to move back to the urban core. Source: www.grist.org, via City Atlas
The Municipal Art Society of New York fights for intelligent urban design, planning, and preservation through education, dialogue and advocacy.Source: mas.org, via City Atlas
The iMac was built to be pretty. So why not sidestep the difficulty of recycling e-waste by making discarded iMac carapaces into something attractive for the home? Jake Harms had the clever idea to make them into aquariums, for “Mac and fish enthusiast…
CHPC Executive Director Jerilyn Perine (who was formerly the commissioner of the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development), Architectural League Executive Director Rosalie Genevro, Chhaya Community Development Corporation Executive Direct…
“Poetry is a way of life,” says poet Jon Cotner as we walk down a path in Fort Greene Park. To Cotner, poetry is also public, inherently social and plays out in the modern day agoras of the city.Source: urbanomnibus.net, via City Atlas
On Monday Transportation Alternatives released a report tallying pedestrian-involved crashes in each of the city’s community board districts, based on numbers from the state Department of Motor Vehicles, between 1995 and 2009.Source: www.streetsb…
David Bragdon, James Gennaro and Carter Strickland Jr. discuss how to make New York City greener and more environmentally friendly.Source: www.cityhallnews.com, via City Atlas
Capitalizing on a new tax arrangement that allows property owners to upgrade their buildings at no upfront cost, cutting energy use and utility bills.
When evening light and crowds merge to create a sense of safety, where walking and transit define mobility and proximity, if commerce goes on without the sun, then human interaction with the built environment is a demonstrated success.