Urban Sustainability NYC

05/18/2024

How I learned to stop worrying and love :

Gersh Kuntzman from StreetsblogNYC interviews Stockholm Congestion Pricing expert Jonas Eliasson under a noisy tolling gantry where a once-traffic choked spo...

05/15/2024

Tell the NYTimes What You Think About New York City’s Streets!

We want to know more about your neighborhood — and how you get around the city.

05/14/2024

is an ecological disaster.

The Atacama desert has become a ‘global sacrifice zone’ of used fast fashion. Activists and designers organised an event to raise awareness of the devastation to the land and local people

05/13/2024

NYC turns compost into...sewage?

Moving to New York can be a culture shock. When Liz French decamped from Indiana to Long Island City, Queens, in 1989—well before it was a trendy place to live—she was sad to learn she’d lost access to a beloved childhood ritual: composting. Her parents, “kind of hippies,” had introduced h...

08/08/2022

A big step toward citywide composting!

The city will pilot automatic, optional curbside pickup across Queens after lagging behind promises to collect compost.

07/26/2022

Trees are a simple solution that deserves more attention!

Philadelphia. Image courtesy of Steve Mouzon Sustainability The powerful virtuous cycles of street trees STEVE MOUZON    AUG. 31, 2020 There are several powerful virtuous cycles of street trees that benefit so many parts of the built environment and the people who inhabit it in ways....

07/08/2022

https://www.archdaily.com/984663/what-is-the-environmental-impact-of-each-building-material

A new tool shows the environmental impact of the most common construction materials, focusing on the analysis of the first three life phases.

06/06/2022

What do stairway requirements have to do with livability and sustainability? Read on!

Could this simple reform be the first step toward better, more affordable designs?

05/18/2022

Pleasantly surprised to find this public seating in an otherwise hostile area

05/17/2022

Public art at the looks as tired as the terminal itself, and a glimpse of the next to Sts Cyril & Methodius below a access ramp