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Newly Un-Flooded New York Subway Still Looking Pretty Horrible – Commute – The Atlantic Cities
Newly Un-Flooded New York Subway Still Looking Pretty Horrible – Commute – The Atlantic Cities.
Honeybee Swarms Increase in N.Y.C. After Mild Spring – NYTimes.com
By EMILY S. RUEB One swarm covered the side-view mirror of a Volvo station wagon in a lot by the Hudson River, trapping a family of three inside. Another humming cluster the size of a watermelon bent a tree branch … Continue reading
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Eating on a Green Roof: New York’s Buildings Provide Food, Habitat for Wildlife – ecomagination
Eating on a Green Roof: New York’s Buildings Provide Food, Habitat for Wildlife0 Rachel Nuwer | Fri Jun 15 2012 New York’s green roofs do more than add a splash of green to the urban habitat. They also provide a … Continue reading
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Mitch Waxman, Tour Guide to Decay – NYTimes.com
By Steven Stern STAND on the pedestrian walkway of the Greenpoint Avenue Bridge, and you might notice a vaguely ominous red brick tower on the Queens side of the Newtown Creek, looming over the railroad tracks and asphalt plants. If … Continue reading
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Bloomberg Offers $5 Million Prize for City Innovation – Arts & Lifestyle – The Atlantic Cities
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a new competition he says will inspire “breakthrough solutions” to many problems facing American cities. The “Mayors Challenge,” run by Bloomberg Philanthropies, will award a $5 million grand prize and four $1 million … Continue reading
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Switch to cleaner fuel oils gets $100M lift | Crain’s New York Business
Mayor unveils a new fund designed to help landlords comply with a pending ban on use of heavy heating oils that generate more soot than all the city’s cars and trucks. The city announced Wednesday that more than $100 million … Continue reading
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In New York, Bees and Their Keepers Proliferate – NYTimes.com
Andrew Coté, right, is tutoring Joshua Bierman, a sous-chef at the Waldorf-Astoria. The hotel recently installed six hives on its 20th floor. Slide shoe » http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/05/27/nyregion/20120527BEESss.html IT’S a busy time of year for bees. As the city’s flowering plants and trees … Continue reading
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Can Trees Actually Deter Crime? | The Atlantic Cities
“…Well somebody tell Omar the game just changed. In the June issue of Landscape and Urban Planning, a team of environmental researchers led by Austin Troy of the University of Vermont report an inverse relationship between tree canopy and a … Continue reading
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Instead of Lamenting the Urban Heat Island Effect, Why Don’t We Harness It? | The Atlantic Cities
By now you are probably well familiar with the concept of the urban heat island effect, even if you can’t quite pinpoint the physics at play when your sneaker sole melts a little on a hot black street … Continue reading
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Energy efficiency: New York tries to help landlords, tenants pick ‘low-hanging fruit’ | www.eenews.net
By John J. Fialka, E&E reporter | ClimateWire: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 NEW YORK — In 2007, when Mayor Michael Bloomberg unveiled his plan to cut this city’s greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent compared to 2005 levels, most of … Continue reading
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