TEDxLongIslandCity: Brooklyn Grange and City Growers
In the first of our videos, Anastasia Cole Plakias of Brooklyn Grange and Cara Chard of educational partner City Growers talk about building and running a rooftop farm.
Jamaica Bay becomes a focus for ideas about global coastal resilience
Can studying Jamaica Bay lead to methods for protecting coastal areas and populations around the world?
New York leads global cities in adopting LED bulbs
By 2017, the dull glow of New York City streetlights will be replaced by the bright white light of LED bulbs.
Mapping a new economy in New York City
The SolidarityNYC map allows people to make consumer choices based on the ethics—supplying a range of businesses, from fresh produce to banking.
Who can explain the 5000 pound life?
Burning one gallon of gasoline produces 20 pounds of CO2; 5000 lbs then works out to an annual budget of 250 gallons of gasoline, for all one’s fossil fuel energy needs.
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.
Where do future flood maps of NYC come from?
The City’s projections for flood zones in coming decades are created by the CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities (CISC); an interactive version now shows projections out to 2080.
Favelas Pop-Up in Queens!
There are favelas in Queens! Well…sort-of. The iconic Brazilian shanty-towns are making an appearance on the campus of Queens College in Flushing – as a huge set of three playful dioramas.
Footbridge to the future?
“New Yorkers don’t need a Nantucket; they need easy access to public green spaces.”
Designing a new water’s edge for the Upper East Side and Harlem
A community-organized panel discussion addresses tissues surrounding the redevelopment of the East River Esplanade.
Think first, eat second: a community meal with COLORS and the People’s Kitchen
The restaurant, born out of the ashes of 9/11, hosted a dinner to bring discussions of food justice and labor justice to the table.
Does New York need a new scale model?
How can the public best visualize New York City — and surrounding coastline — changing in the years after Hurricane Sandy? A proposal for a scale model of the city and waterfront.
A team greens a patch of city in Kensington, Brooklyn
One kind of resilience might start with a few spare Fridays of digging and planting on some blocks near your friend’s house.
The future of Southern Manhattan
Other boroughs suffered equal, or more brutal, direct consequences from Hurricane Sandy, but the visual impact of a darkened Manhattan captured the imagination.
River-filtered floating pool aims for 2016
+ Pool, the dauntless and brilliant crowd-sourced river pool project, moves a step closer to reality.
The future of Southern Brooklyn, including Coney Island
As a bustling community attached to the massive built environment of the city, it was easy to overlook how vulnerable Coney Island and the neighborhoods around it have always been to the full force of the Atlantic.
A would a vertical format work for farming in cities?
Are vertical farms worth their height in food?