“Keep it slow:” touring the High Line
The High Line has become a top destination for visitors. Does it still work for New Yorkers? Sarah Holder takes a tour.
The High Line has become a top destination for visitors. Does it still work for New Yorkers? Sarah Holder takes a tour.
The QueensWay would transform an abandoned railway in Queens into parkland.
Ecologist Eric Sanderson has written a carefully detailed and beautifully designed book on the need to redesign society without cars. Projjal Dutta, Director of Sustainability for the MTA,…
James White explains that the future of the city depends on how the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets melt in a warmer climate, and on what we do to slow the process down.
New York’s Landmarks Law preserves not only the culture of the past, but the energy put into buildings of the past.
One puzzle on which top experts disagree is the role of nuclear power in providing a solution to climate change.
Will solar panels soon become as iconic to New York’s rooftops as the ubiquitous water tower?
An adventurous coyote led police on a futile chase through Riverside Park on the Upper West Side, the second to be seen in Manhattan in April, and the sixth NYC coyote sighting of 2015, a record-breaking pace.
A new crowdsourced map shows some important features of the city and describes how we can respond to changing climate.
Part epic journey, part field research: David Kroodsma and Lindsey Fransen bicycled across Asia researching climate. It turns out that low carbon travel is possible with time and strong legs, and probably a much better way to see things.
A panel at Columbia looked at how New York is taking a leading role in how cities both cope with, and solve, the planetary challenge of climate change.
“We’re educating students who will go out into the world and have 60 years or more of productive and engaged life. What is the world going to be like 60 years from now?”
Gernot Wagner is an economist who focuses on what he doesn’t know. Tail events, the black swans, the unknown unknowns. The future.
Can global finance rapidly shift gears to trigger a new wave of sustainable investing?
What if the key to halting climate change lay not in the atmosphere above our heads, but in the rock beneath our feet?
By the time college freshmen graduate in 2018, we’ll know whether we’ve moved quickly enough on climate agreements and behavior change to stay within the 2°C target.