This week the world’s population will reach a whopping 7 billion inhabitants, but experts are already releasing their estimates of what’s to come by the end of the century.Source: inhabitat.com, via City Atlas
Water transportation is a great sustainable option for travel. Glad to hear that the latest East River ferry services are successful.Source: www.nytimes.com, via City Atlas
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
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
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 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…
“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
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
Your phone’s GPS capabilities mean you can pinpoint yourself on a map with the tap of your finger, but should your battery die or your phone go on the fritz, would you be able to navigate compass-free?Source: lifehacker.com, via City Atlas
Meanwhile, American Petroleum Institute Chief Economist says: “Anybody dismissing any type of job is silly.” by Kate Gordon Another day, another attack on the growing and popular clean energy sector.Source: thinkprogress.org, via City Atlas
Ideas to turn stalled construction projects into urban oases.
A recent study shows that bicyclists absorb more carbon soot in their lungs than pedestrians or drivers. But new reports argue that the benefits of the exercise far outweigh the downsides.Source: www.planetizen.com, via City Atlas