It is no surprise that New York City holds one of the world’s densest agglomerations of people and infrastructure; but according to a new report, it is also hides a huge archipelago of potential farmland. The report, by the Earth Institute’s Urban Design Lab, identifies some 5,000 scattered acres of private and public vacant land suitable for farming–plus [...]
The Copenhagen Primer, a user-friendly guide to the 2009 climate summit, lays out the essentials of history, science and negotiating points. Four pages of charts show timelines of previous summits; important scientific discoveries; the main political points nations are arguing over; and projections of what various actions—or inactions—are expected to cost in coming years. It [...]
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