Sydney’s beautiful sunken gardens, Paddington Reservoir Gardens, was just opened to the public.
Sunked Garden in Sydney, Australia [Pictures & Video]
August 19, 2010 By 3 Comments
New Sustainability Director in NYC Comes from Portland
August 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Rit Aggarwala, who previously led the PlaNYC 2030 sustainability agenda as Director of the Mayor’s Office of Long-Term Planning & Sustainability, is off to California to live happily ever after with his new bride. Replacing him in NYC is long-time Portland city and regional planning superstar David Bragdon.
Geography of a Depression
August 18, 2010 By 4 Comments
According to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are over 31 million people presently unemployed; and from the economic desperation that I have seen around this nation, those seem like very conservative estimates. This is a very disturbing animation of just how rampantly unemployment has spread across the United States in [...]
2010 Smarter Cities for Energy
August 17, 2010 By 1 Comment
The Death of Film Photography and the “Fresh Coast”
August 16, 2010 By 1 Comment
Anyone who has seen the previous works of Minnesota photographer Ed Wargin knows he has an exquisite eye for beauty. Ed’s numerous books include Lake Michigan: A Photographic Portfolio. This time, he has surpassed himself with an ambitious new endeavor, The Fresh Coast Project. Ed explains that the goal is to assemble a body of artistic and historical photographs on film of the natural and human-made Great Lakes land and waterscapes.
