So apparently a mini-gate on motorboat was chasing a minipark on a tugboat. Floating Park meet mini-Gates. Was it him? | nytimes View full entry
Super-powerful hurricanes now hitting the United States are the "smoking gun" of global warming, one of Britain's leading scientists believes. Read View full entry
Update Sustainable Waterfronts, Learning from the Dutch Experience Symposium has added speakers and content regarding the current situation in New Orleans - titled Living Below Sea-Level. l previous l full entry l Press Release In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, much attention has been given to... View full entry
In the race to find new models for urban public schools as they continue to delapidate, Jonathan Kozol exposes our public school system which for 50 years after Brown v. Board of Education, is still deeply -- and shamefully -- segregated. Salon View full entry
In effort to spare migratory birds which die in the thousands every year, New York will dim the lights of its famed skyline after midnight. Reuters View full entry
"Canada's Alberta province has oil reserves second only to Saudi Arabia's, but they're not a liquid asset. Unlike the smooth crude oil that spurts from wells in Kuwait and Texas, oil sands are essentially black mud. Through a complicated series of steps the mud is transformed into gas you can put... View full entry
Architecture for Humanitys' co-founder Kate Stohr writes in Business Week on the lessons learned from the San Francisco earthquake and how it might be used in New Orleans. View full entry
Another audio file about the future of New Orleans, Architectural editor Robert Ivy laments what been lost and looks at what it will take for the city will keep its character. DnA via kcrw.com View full entry
The Dirt ...The Washington Post's Roger Lewis presents a long discussion of landscape architect Ian McHarg's Design With Nature, which was originally published in the late 1960s and pointed the way to creating development within the context of natural settings””rather than fighting... View full entry
The National Trust for Historic Preservation visited New Orleans on Monday to remind officials to be mindful of the city's architectural legacy. NY Times View full entry
"What does it mean to be safe? Does it mean wearing a Kevlar vest that can stop bullets? Or having a waterproof tarp to live under and a machine to locate unexploded land mines? Does safety mean Homeland Security, barbed wire, and identity-theft protection? Or is it simply a teddy bear to hug... View full entry
Democracy Now features interviews today with President Hugo Chavez, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai, and Ken Wiwa - the son of Ken Saro Wiwa, on issues of oil and the environment. View full entry
Architecture talk podcast, a site that brings analysis of the built environment to the general public posted its latest show: A discussion about New Orleansdownload here >> View full entry
People said: 'It looks like something out of the Third World.' Well, New Orleans was Third World long before the hurricane. Cornel West, credited in the Guardian as "a rap artist and appeared as Counsellor West in Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions." Guardian View full entry
An amazing speach by John Kerry, yes John Kerry, on the shortcomings and possibilities exposed by Katrina. Definitely worth a read, regardless of how you feel about Kerry. Salon View full entry