Changes Needed After Hurricane Sandy Include Politics - NYTimes.com

This is a deeply misleading and incoherent piece interlaced with some fascinating questions and observations.  The author says that "authoritarian" regimes are needed to remake large cities with large scale public works but all the examples of large scale urban public works are from democracies! (UK, Netherlands ...)  What authoritarian country has built an sustainable urban area?  China?  Please.  Just because China has built some large scale eco projects doesnt mean that the cities  are sustainable, far from it. 

Changes Needed After Hurricane Sandy Include Politics - NYTimes.com

New garden on Bedford Avenue near Glenwood Road • Brooklyn Daily

New garden on Bedford Avenue near Glenwood Road • Brooklyn Daily

A New Philosophy for the 21st Century - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education

"Philosophers have broad social responsibilities that require directly engaging social problems. This can mean activism, but in a bureaucratic age it is more likely to mean working at the project level with scientists, engineers, and policy makers. Rather than philosopher kings, our future is more likely to lie in becoming philosopher bureaucrats."

"Field philosophy means working outside the library or study, doing philosophy at the project level, with scientists, engineers, and policy makers. Unlike applied ethics, where the value of the work is still largely expressed within the discipline, field philosophy adds value out in the world by responding to societal needs."

A New Philosophy for the 21st Century - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education

New York City's Greenest Roofs

More photos and info on green roofs in NYC.  mm

High-Tech Hydroponic Farm Transforms Abandoned Bowling Alley

• By Dave Mosher
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• October 27, 2011  |
  

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NEW YORK CITY — On top of an old bowling alley in industrial northern Brooklyn sits an expansive translucent greenhouse. Inside, a bounty of produce thrives under the supervision of a computer-controlled network of sensors, motors and plumbing.

The 15,000-square-foot hydroponic greenhouse facility, called Gotham Greens, is reputedly the first commercial-scale urban operation of its kind in the United States. Thousands of lettuce and basil seedlings were plopped into a soil-less farming system in May. Since then, three local entrepreneurs say their operation is on track to deliver 100 tons of produce by the one-year mark.