Archive for the Green Tech Category
Carina
August 17, 2010
Welcome to the new CISC blog, the version that will change your life (hopefully–that is, if we do our jobs right.) But really, we have a new look, new contributors and a dedicated commitment to re-think the oft thrown around words and concepts around and behind sustainability. We will share stories of everyday people (folks, [...]
Architecture, Art, Education, Energy, Environment, Equity, Global Warming, Green Tech, Politics, Public Health, Revitalization, Sustainability, economy
Thor Ritz
June 15, 2010
Keri Facer – Learning to live in interesting times from FutureEverything on Vimeo. The video I share with you today comes from one of the keynote speakers at Future Everything, a design and technologies conference held in Manchester. Keri Facer gives a provoking talk on how we think about the future–psychologically, collectively, technologically–and what it [...]
Thor Ritz
May 11, 2010
Green reports that there is a comprehensive ‘solar map’ in the works for New York City. They quote CUNY’s very own Tria Case and explain that a new LIDAR dataset will allow users to calculate potential energy generation capabilities for individual rooftops. (We have learned from other sources at CUNY that this data is going [...]
Thor Ritz
April 20, 2010
Green Inc. recently ran two separate pieces on trends in alternative energy across the United States. Wind power seems to have fared the recession amazingly well: A record 10,010 megawatts of new wind capacity was installed in the United States last year, accounting for 39 percent of new electrical generation, the American Wind Energy Association [...]
Carina
January 29, 2010
Every once in a while someone tells me about a new blog they are working on that lists the “top 50 something green.” Most of the time they are certainly interesting enough but don’t always make it to the blog. Today though, with thoughts of Haiti’s reconstruction, the state of the union, and other built [...]
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