The Forage Tracking project at the SENSEable city lab at MIT maps the collection routes of informal recyclers (catadores) who collect and sell recyclables to industry. Vik Muniz's document Wasteland, recently featured the of waste pickers on Jardim Gramacho, a landfill north of Rio De Janeiro, ahead of government efforts to formalize recycling. In Sao Paulo, the Forage Tacking project provides a spatial dimension to how waste circulates at a neighbourhood level using GPS and mobile phones.
Jan banning's documentary series -- bureaucratics.
Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island is being transformed into a 2,200 acre park about three times the size of Central Park with meadows and wetland, which will be named Freshkills park, a thin disguise for the strange name. Ironically, this marks a return to the land's original eco-system as it was thought that Fresh Kill, prior to being transformed into a landfill was dominated by a vast tidal wetland fed by fresh water spring and streams. The word "kill" is Old-Dutch for stream, brook, or channel. Bird-watchers however, have been drawn to the site for some time with binoculars in hand, expecting to spot even the rare red-tailed hawk. Other more famous urban American parks developed on landfills include the Millennium Park in Boston, the Cesar Chavez Park in Berkeley, and Mount Trashmore in Virginia Beach.
A legendary photographer and an inspirational teacher.
LA Times: Roy DeCarava dies at 89; art photographer depicted the African American experience
NYT: Parting Glances: Roy Decarava, 1919-2009
NYT: Roy DeCarava, Pioneering Photographer Dies at 89
LA Times: Roy DeCarava dies at 89; art photographer depicted the African American experience
NYT: Parting Glances: Roy Decarava, 1919-2009
NYT: Roy DeCarava, Pioneering Photographer Dies at 89
Annie Leonard's brilliant 20 minute video on the story of everything around us.
Two articles on "Intersections Intersected," David Goldblatt's latest exhibition at the New Museum, examine the photographer's precise probing statements on AIDS, apartheid and photographing the everyday in South Africa.
Ken Johnson on Goldblatt's earlier work: "In the Time of AIDS".
Fred Ritchin looks at Goldblatt's political positioning in "The Camera is not a Machine Gun."
Ken Johnson on Goldblatt's earlier work: "In the Time of AIDS".
Fred Ritchin looks at Goldblatt's political positioning in "The Camera is not a Machine Gun."
Tina Brown's new website the Daily Beast.
Raffi Khatchadourian on illegal timber along the Chinese-Russian border, Walmart, and our toilet seats.
Urban landscapes that are designed to emphasize the aesthetic appeal of sustainable living.
The Eastern or the Great Pacific Garbage patch in the North Pacific Ocean is a stark reminder of how our lifestyles are threatening our Blue Planet. While many studies have been conducted in recent years, especially by the Algalita Marine Research Foundation, there's little discussion in terms of solutions. Understandably, it is difficult to deal with a liquid trash patch that has been said to be one and a half times the size of the United States. And then there is the issue of responsibility. While we have institutions to discuss and to issue a financial bailout, when problems occurs outside of national borders, even when they threaten everyone equally, we have little resources to come up with a solution.