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Life Following Life: The Built Tries to Follow the Natural.

Carina August 25, 2010
Life Following Life: The Built Tries to Follow the Natural.

I have no doubt posted the transcript of the speech, You are Brilliant and the Earth is Hiring. But if you haven’t had a chance to read it or if you just need a pick me up, go ahead and take 10 minutes and read it. In it, Paul Hawken essentially evokes Buckminster Fuller’s ideas [...]

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One Shark Fin Soup, with a Side of Extinction

Alex Hanson August 24, 2010
One Shark Fin Soup, with a Side of Extinction

I feel like I’ve had sharks on the mind a lot lately. Discovery Channel’s Shark Week wrapped up recently. The students of a co-worker just did a presentation on sharks and the left-over poster has been sitting around the office.

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Facing the Flood

Alex Hanson August 10, 2010
Facing the Flood

What would you do if you’re home was flooded? And I don’t mean just an inch of rain water the basement, I mean something far more serious. What if it was your favorite park, the subway you take to work, or perhaps the city beach that you visit on weekends to cool off from the summer heat?

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Paddling the South Bronx

Carina August 5, 2010
Paddling the South Bronx

I took some of our fabulous CISC interns on a kayaking voyage up the Bronx River a few weeks ago. And this is what they had to say about it. “New Yorkers tend to think inwards and underground about their city: Central Park and the subway. But lately, this has been changing.  Boating organizations and [...]

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From Parmigiana to Punjab: CUNY Fulbright Fellow Heidi Exline

Alex Hanson August 3, 2010
From Parmigiana to Punjab: CUNY Fulbright Fellow Heidi Exline

Earlier today, I had the pleasure of sitting down with my friend and fellow urban planning student Heidi Exline one last time before she heads off to India for nine months. In less than two weeks, she will be leaving for Ludhiana (a city of around a million people several hours north of Delhi) to [...]

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