Wow, it is incredible what you can do with a small space with the right design! Check out this Tiny NYC half-bedroom converted into elegant chamber (Video)
Study of NYC’s no-soda campaign shows the secret to ordering healthier food is seeing how far you have to walk to burn it off
Roads Cover 4.8 square miles of Manhattan
Howler and Yoon, winners of the Audi Urban Future Award image a NYC where roads become soccer fields and solar panels.
(via think-progress)
Gizmodo takes a video tour through TreeHugger founder, Graham Hill’s Life Edited apartment.
Michael Hession summarizes the space:
It is the project of Graham Hill, entrepreneur and treehugger.com founder, to come up with an ideal New York apartment—one with a small footprint, both physically and environmentally, and one that offers just as much beauty and functionality as a pad multiple times its size….. When you walk in, you encounter what is, at first glance, a small studio apartment. Within that cube are actually 8 functional spaces. The living room and office become the bedroom with a tug of a bookshelf. Open one of the closets and you’ll find 10 stackable chairs that go around a telescopic dining table for large dinner parties. An entire guest room with bunk-beds and a closet is revealed behind a wall that slides out on tracks. And of course, a well-equipped kitchen and bathroom await.
The votes are in and Sandra Steingraber is TreeHugger’s 2012 Person of the Year!
Happy Holidays! Biking Across New York City to Make a GPS Holiday Card!
Do you bike in the winter? Here are 5 ways to enjoy biking all winter long: http://ow.ly/f80yd @ChrisTackett (aka me!) snapped this pick of some hardcore nor’easter biking in #NYC.
"What if, over the past decade, New York City paid as much attention, both mental and fiscal, to making this city more resilient to extreme weather, rising sea levels and other current and future impacts of climate change as it has combatting terrorism—in the process turning militarizing the NYPD, with its own anti-aircraft weaponry, spying both domestically and internationally?"
— What if New York City Invested in Climate Adaptation Like it Has in Combating Terrorism?
Although not quite a hurricane by the time she reached landfall in New York, superstorm Sandy stunned with her strength, size and tenacity, setting a striking number of records before moving on from the East Coast and marching her sassy self off to northern climes.
“There are no precedents for Sandy,” Bill Read, former director of the National Hurricane Center told the Houston Chronicle, and indeed, the numbers prove the statement. Here’s how Sandy has outdone the others, earning her the title as one of the record-breakingest storms in recorded history.
While I was hunkered down in Brooklyn riding out Hurricane Sandy, I wanted to see what was happening outside.
Here are some of the flooding photos being shared around the web last night.
What did you see? Send us your photos.
If they are not inspired by the past of our city, where will they find the strength to fight for her future?
That was Jackie Kennedy Onassis explaining the need for historic conservation. Now three architectural firms are working to design how Grand Central Terminal will look for the next hundred years.
If you’re in N.Y.C. and have a free hour this weekend, head to the Lower East Side for “Imagining the Lowline,” a visionary exhibit in an abandoned warehouse on Essex and Broome. The exhibit is really just an amuse-bouche, a showcase for the real thing: it’s there to help you imagine what it might be like to step into the world’s first underground park.
Meghan O’Rourke visits “Imagining the Lowline,” and explores the plan behind the underground park: http://nyr.kr/QFqDE8
Image courtesy of RAAD.
I attended New York Fashion Week this year and have a few ideas on how to avoid the seasonal “must have” trends, instead opting for a classic style.
Now, I consider a different criteria when shopping:
- First, do I really need it?
- Second, am I sure I really need it?
- Third, do I need it right now?
You get the idea.
Once I decide I do need something, I ask these questions:
- Is it high-quality and built-to-last?
- Is it a classic piece that will remain in style for many years?
- Is it built in a way that allows it to be repaired? (ie. leather-soled shoes)
- Is this an heirloom piece? Could I pass it down?
- And, of course, I will consider the origin of the materials and the circumstances under which it was manufactured.
Read the rest: Classic Style or Seasonal Trends? Viewing New York Fashion Week Through a Sustainable Lens
Here’s something I wrote for TreeHugger yesterday. If you like clothes, but also don’t want to destroy the planet or contribute to unnecessary consumerism, I think you’ll like it.
