<<In December 2006, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg challenged New Yorkers to generate ideas for achieving 10 key goals for the city's sustainable future. New Yorkers in all five boroughs responded. The result is the most sweeping plan to enhance New York's urban environment in the city's modern history. Focusing on the five key dimensions of the city's environment - land, air, water, energy, and transportation - we have developed a plan that can become a model for cities in the 21st century. The combined impact of this plan will not only help ensure a higher quality of life for generations of New Yorkers to come; it will also contribute to a 30% reduction in global warming emissions.>>

<<In September 2010, New York City released the NYC Green Infrastructure Plan which presents an alternative approach to improving water quality that integrates “green infrastructure,” such as swales and green roofs, with investments to optimize the existing system and to build targeted, cost-effective “grey” or traditional infrastructure.>>

Oberlin college kids theme their off-campus house green via short showers & composting. Theme is simple lifestyle changes & small retrofit.

LEED for Neighborhood Development is a collaboration between the U.S. Green Building Council, the Congress for the New Urbanism, and the Natural Resources Defense Council.

"Our mission is to repair the fabric of cities, towns and villages, while preserving the land around them. To do this, we plan and develop diverse, mixed-use, transit-accessible, mixed-income communities or components focused on nodes of transportation."

against monoculture and centralization

Sustainable developmont on former military site.

"And always remember: Everything about food and cooking is a metaphor for sex. "

valvoline, gasoline, all the ones in between: more on the oil we eat. via estee.

carbon neutral arch by 2030

sweet little wind turbine. Another version by UIC students was up on the Sears Tower a few years ago. payback time (in UK) is 15+ years - bit long. via pruned

They had the best selection,
They were poisoned with protection