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Floating Cities for Rising Seas
From Delft University of Technology Here at the Institute, sea-level rise is way up there on our list of pressing climate-related problems facing cities like New York (our director has a great little...
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UK Maps the Potential Effects of Global Warming
The British Government recently released a map that forecasts the disastrous scenarios that could play out with a 4 degree (C) rise in temperature across the globe. It features nine categories of...
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Haiti’s (Solar) Power
Michele Pierre-Louis, former Prime Minister of Haiti and current director of the Open Society Institute’s (OSI) reconstruction efforts in the country wrote a piece called, “My Pride and Hope for...
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Urban Resilience
These days, I spend a lot of time thinking about cities and synergies. I believe that the very basic components of urban sustainability–and education about it–must be grounded in showing linkages...
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Ready and Open for Crisis?
We humans are funny beasts. We like to think of ourselves as proactive and flexible, when actually, for the most part we are reactive and rigid, to the point that how we respond to certain stimuli...
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Rebuilding Japan
While much of the world watches the aftermath of last week’s earth quake and tsunami unfold via stunning yet disturbing visuals–stills and video footage that make you want to go and pick people up and...
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Rights Granted to Mother Nature In Bolivia
Bolivia is embarking to pass the world’s first legislation that gives rights to the environment or Mother Nature. The new law grants 11 rights to the environment. One for example, looks at natural...
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Irene, and other extremes
As New Yorkers return to business as usual, largely spared from the severe impacts of Irene that surrounding suburbs and neighboring states experienced, there is of course the quiet chatter of people...
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Hey New Yorkers! Other New Yorkers Need You!
People love to talk about the big city/upstate divide. But really, I think most people are far less extreme and find wonderful, redeeming qualities in all parts of our great state. Now would be a good...
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What would YOU say to the 7 billionth resident of Planet Earth?
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...
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