Sidewalk Labs launches Link, more to come
Can a new initiative from Daniel Doctoroff and Google advance the civic conversation on climate change?
Can a new initiative from Daniel Doctoroff and Google advance the civic conversation on climate change?
Tomorrow Obama will announce a new plan to reduce greenhouse gases. One way that states might meet their expected emission limits is to implement fee-and-dividend policies.
The barter site yerdle aims to “reduce the durable consumer goods we all need to buy by 25%.” Because about a quarter of the goods in a big box store can be easily reused and shared.
Can the sharing economy help solve global problems like climate change?
By 2017, the dull glow of New York City streetlights will be replaced by the bright white light of LED bulbs.
The belief that business and the environment cannot thrive together is challenged by the success of several green residential developments in NYC.
Public critiques and counter-campaigns have drawn attention to Google’s corporate slogan “Don’t be evil,” pointing out their hypocrisy and subverting the slogan with the protest rally: “Don’t fund evil.”
How will the historic site–New York’s largest and oldest industrial facility–look in a year? In ten? We take a look at one new, “green” piece of the industrial fabric.
Can this app give you more control over your life?
New York has persevered through two heat waves so far in summer 2013, including a day that broke the Con Ed record for peak energy use. When will we experience the next heat wave and how bad will it be?
Can we “slow climate change until it is within the capacity of natural ecosystems and humans to adapt”?
Cube Cities traces the lifetime of midtown Manhattan through growth animation
Cheap oil built the modern American landscape. Now what? Eric Sanderson has some ideas.
In the world of NYC foraging, appetites, and sometimes tensions, are high. Here’s our guide to the landscape.
By the end of the year, the MTA has announced it will install interactive, touch-screen maps for helping travelers and commuters navigate the city’s latticework…
New York has never settled for second place, and the city already has the largest rooftop farms in the world.