City’s Rapid Repairs leaves Brooklyn storm victims in demolished homes - NY Daily News

City’s Rapid Repairs leaves Brooklyn storm victims in  demolished homes  - NY Daily News

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