Posted by Urban Design Lab | Oct 13, 2009 |
In public debate about the future of America’s energy policy, the Northeast region is in contention regarding gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale field. With this project, we focused on the Marcellus Shale gas extraction along the Upper Delaware, in the Town of Hancock. The process of extraction includes potential environmental hazards and while contentious, is devoid of local oversight. To date, just in Hancock, more than twenty-five percent of the town’s land has been leased for gas drilling.
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Posted by Steve Cohen | Sep 3, 2009 |
On August 27th, New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo announced that his office will provide $1.8 million of a $7 million settlement with a number of towns in Westchester that had been illegally dumping raw sewage into the Bronx River.
According to Cuomo’s web site:
“The funding will be provided to seven entities, including the Bronx [...]
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Posted by Kim Martineau | May 1, 2009 |
Even on a sunny day, nearly 13 million gallons of water are pumped from New York City subways. As global warming brings rising sea levels and stormier weather, more flooding is expected for New York’s transit system.
To adapt, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority needs to develop a master plan that lays out the costs of upgrading [...]
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Posted by Kyu Lee | Apr 9, 2009 |
Back in the summer of 1997 while working for a small newspaper focusing on UN development issues, I traveled to Bangladesh to see how far this often overlooked country tucked away in a corner between India and China had fared since its independence 25 years ago. At the time the only stories which came out [...]
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