Archive for the Green Tech Category

Give Me a Brake!

September 26, 2010
Give Me a Brake!

One of the biggest changes in lifestyle when I moved to New York was the switch from private transportation to public transit.  While I love that I can sit on the MTA and just read as I’m going to wherever I’m headed to, I wished I was back in my old Volvo XC90 every time [...]

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A New Era of Sustainability

August 17, 2010
A New Era of Sustainability

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, [...]

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Thinking Into the Future: Cities as Complex Systems and the Weight of History

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 [...]

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Solar Maps for NYC?

May 11, 2010
Solar Maps for NYC?

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 [...]

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Wind Power Strong, Solar Still Growing

April 20, 2010
Wind Power Strong, Solar Still Growing

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 [...]

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