Market: two parties willing to make an exchange
I frequently muse over my own situational prescriptions of value ie. a cab ride is worth significantly more to me when its raining, and that only intensifies for individuals in adverse environments and would explain why markets emerge in the most desperate of circumstances, thriving in places such […]
I enjoyed Adam’s reference to sidewalk coding and the descriptions used to define the various sidewalk conditions. Amusing. City zoning must be full of outdated idiosyncratic regulations. City planning, specifically transportation intrigues me. I can only imagine that much of the planning even in a densely populated urban space like NYC still caters to the […]
Tyler Volk was kind enough to meet with me this morning and gave me a number of contacts to pursue. Approaching the biology department from Tisch with an experimental concept was a really interesting experience me.
Carbon-eating cement
eco-cement needs carbon dioxide to harden and set. Therefore, it absorbs large quantities of the greenhouse gas that concrete is partially responsible for, contributing about 10% of global CO2 emissions.
Self-scrubbing buildings
paint up cities with materials that dissolve and wash away pollutants when exposed to sun and rain.
Skyfarming
Converting skyscrapers into crop farms could help […]
AIR is a public, social experiment in which people are invited to use Preemptive Media’s portable air monitoring devices to explore their neighborhoods and urban environments for pollution and fossil fuel burning hotspots.
The aim of the Public Air Quality Indicator project is to make existing information on air quality and pollution levels accessible.
I reached out to a number of biology professors from the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences for advisement
Gloria Coruzzi gloria.coruzzi@nyu.edu
Guenther Stotzky gs5@nyu.edu - on sabbatical
Ken Birnbaum ken.birnbaum@nyu.edu
Richard Bonneau bonneau@nyu.edu
Tyler Volk tyler.volk@nyu.edu -meeting at 11 on wednesday
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