Archive for the Education Category
Carina
January 5, 2012
Do you ever wonder how much created energy is lost every day? From the rapid halt of a subway car or an elevator, to the steady pace of our foot steps on a sidewalk, to the bounce of a dance floor, to all them spinning classes and street cyclists. If it is not apparent already, [...]
Carina
January 4, 2012
More people are using food stamps at New York City Green Markets, as WNYC reported this morning. While there are different ways to present the findings, with some people all together critical of the claim because more New Yorkers (and Americans) are on food stamps in general these days, I can see the silver lining. [...]
Agriculture, economy, Education, Energy, Environment, Equity, Food, Global Warming, Public Health, Sustainability, Urbanism
Carina
November 1, 2011
According to the United Nations, our blue planet is now home to 7 billion people, give or take a few. As of November 1st at 11:06 New York time, it is actually 7,000, 272,425. So, as news made its way around the world yesterday, there were various responses. Some used it as a call to [...]
Agriculture, economy, Education, Energy, Environment, Equity, Food, Global Warming, Natural Hazards, Politics, Public Health, Sustainability, Urbanism
Carina
September 26, 2011
The Nobel laureate and founder of the Green Belt Movement, Wangari Maathai passed away yesterday. I’m not sure that there is a good time for such an amazing figure to leave us, but the current moment seems awfully unfortunate. As may be indicated by the recent waive of protests on austerity measures, the XL pipeline [...]
Carina
September 22, 2011
We are thrilled to announce that the City Atlas is now launched and running. We are still in a beta testing mode, but all of our content is up there and the site will be functioning, updated, and utilized from now on! Please do come and check it out for your self but a recap [...]
economy, Education, Energy, Equity, Food, Global Warming, Politics, Revitalization, Sustainability, Transportation, Urbanism
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