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Monthly Archives: September 2010
Red Hook Food Vendors at the Queens Museum of Art
The Red Hook Food Vendors have been cooking up Latin American specialties since 1974 at Red Hook Park in Brooklyn. It has been a longstanding tradition for food lovers to go enjoy delicious cuisine while watching fútbol games at the … Continue reading
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Tagged Brooklyn, Cooking, Department of Health, Food truck, Latin America, Red Hook Park
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Working from home and online shopping can increase carbon emissions, UK report claims
ScienceDaily Sep. 22, 2010 — Shopping on the Internet or working from home could be increasing carbon emissions rather than helping to reduce them, a new report claims. The research reveals that people who shop online must order more than … Continue reading
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Tagged Carbon Cycle, Carbon Management, Climate change, Greenhouse gas, Online shopping, Telecommuting
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AE 21: Gable Houses
A few recent projects incorporate that most typological of architectural elements, the gable house. Of course each does it in a way that departs radically from the reality of the square and triangle diagram that most people at a young … Continue reading
Volvo To Develop Battery That Is Charged By The Chassis
Volvo is working on an innovative new car battery that can be installed in the vehicle’s bodywork itself and is charged via the car’s own body panels. Dubbed The Tomorrow Car, the new model is part of a three-year, 3.5 … Continue reading
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Tagged Automobile, Car battery, Carbon fiber, Chassis, london, Volvo
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Las Vegas Death Ray
By now, youve no doubt heard of the Las Vegas death ray: “The tall, sleek, curving Vdara Hotel at CityCenter on the Strip is a thing of beauty,” the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports. “But the south-facing tower is also a … Continue reading
Race and ethnicity mapped by block
Race and ethnicity mapped by block.
Park51
Although the Park51 building would not be visible from the World Trade Center site, opponents of the Park51 project have said, among other things, that building a mosque so close to Ground Zero is offensive since the hijackers in the … Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11, Ground zero, muslim, New York, Politics, World Trade Center
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Do You Live in One of the World’s 15 Greenest Cities? | Environment | AlterNet
These metropolises aren’t literally the greenest places on earth — they’re not necessarily dense with foliage, for one, and some still have a long way to go down the path to sustainability. But all of the cities on this list … Continue reading
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Tagged Climate change, Environment, green, london, metropolice, Portland Oregon, rank, San Francisco, Vancouver
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The Death of Tachiyomi
Tachiyomi is a Japanese term that means reading as you stand, and it’s certainly something you tend to see a lot of when you walk into a convenience store here. Over the years I’ve been seeing more and more stores … Continue reading
Google Maps Mania: Google Map of the Week
This Google Maps lets you discover who commutes where from any given zip code. The map uses data from the Census Transportation Planning Package and calculates travel times using the Google Maps API. via Google Maps Mania: Google Map of … Continue reading
NOAA reports 2010 hottest year on record so far
The first eight months of 2010 tied the same period in 1998 for the warmest combined land and ocean surface temperature on record worldwide. Meanwhile, the June–August summer was the second warmest on record globally after 1998, and last month … Continue reading
Food Truck
When I saw the post of ‘Food Trucks and Public Space,’ it’s only happening in LA. But, recent article by Edward L. Glaeser, ‘Free the food truck‘ plus related post, it’s now in everywhere. Boston, Chicago, LA… Mobile food distribution … Continue reading
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Tagged bento, Chicago, distribution, food, Food truck, Japan, park, regulation, Seatle, street, system, Trucks, United States
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