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recycling event
Just in case anyone’s looking:
Sounds like a great recycling event at the Newtown Creek WWTP visitor center and a chance to meet David Hurd, from the Office of Recycling Outreach and Education. And a great opportunity to check out the plant if you missed the class visit!
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Screening and Discussion of “The Green Apple: Recycling”
6pm-7:30pm, DEP Visitor Center at Newtown Creek
329 Greenpoint Ave at Humboldt, Brooklyn
See NYC recycling like you’ve never seen it before in this year’s Emmy winner in Environmental Programming. The screening will be followed by a presentation and discussion with OROE, who will debunk recycling myths, test your knowledge of recycling and share local resources to help you recycle more. Refreshments will be provided. Please RSVP to events@dep.nyc.gov.
jenny
NYC CONDOM
by Tassos Lockbird
Today I went to the NYC Department of Health to speak with the Director of the Condoms & Materials Distribution Department. Along with having a really interesting conversation concerning various aspects of this initiative, Jennifer Medina -the Director- gave me something to bring to class and share! :)
macbar | plastic is a “femme fatale”; so beautiful, yet so bad
by Tassos Lockbird
last week a friend of mine took me to this nevertheless fun place that makes specifically mac and cheese, but many kinds. what is even more impressive is their takeaway packaging. so pretty, so shiny, so…useless. or…is it art? because underneath, it says “designed by Ran Lerner”! I don’t know, and I don’t even think it matters. what matters is that even though I have always played devil’s advocate and defended “plastic”, this time [it was too late to say no to the packaging when I saw it!], I was stunned. the amounts of plastic started building up…
flushing meadows ~ corona park | a forgotten circus
by Tassos Lockbird
Not so long ago, a friend from Greece was visiting me and wanted to go to “some places”, as she had told me. Being an architect, she had chosen some interesting and less mainstream sights, one of them being the Flushing Meadows – Corona Park, created in 1939 for New York’s World’s Fair and hosting it again in 1964. Now, it seems like a deserted theme park in the middle of nowhere. The peculiar character of the place though, has an overwhelming, yet beautifully enchanting effect. Wasted space, wasted dreams.
NEWTOWN CREEK
by Tassos Lockbird
…because, better late than never…
…here are a few pictures from our visit to Newtown Creek!
Definitely one of my personal highlights of this semester.
Litter as horror
By Jen
This is a pretty excellent anti-litter PSA I think, by David Lynch — thought I’d share.
Urban Map
Has anyone else been having the hardest time adding site tags to the map? The google map keeps switching information around on me, losing data … it’s driving me batty.
Jen
thanks all, and stay in touch.
by cindy
hi everyone!
sorry i won’t be able to join you all for the final class of the semester. i really enjoyed sharing the course with all of you and look forward to seeing all of your final forms in the weeks to come.
if anyone wants to stay in touch beyond the class/semester, my email is: cindypound@gmail.com.
and then of course there is the time wasting, bytes wasting space of facebook! i’m on there, you can just search for my name and i’ll come up.
good luck to all on your final weeks of the semester and i hope you all have a fantastic summer.
take care,
cindy
trash interfacing
just wanted to comment on a topic that was covered in class today by the street waste group- i just found the example of the bigbelly compactors completely fascinating. Much of how we deal and approach waste has to do with the ways in which we interface with it- and the big belly pull down drawer was such a good example of that, much like how we interface with toilets and the idea of sewage washing away waste from our homes
lara
Heritage of Splendor
By Jen
Al Gore has nothing on Ronald Reagan.
The whole thing is really interesting (The third grade litterbug art contest is amazing), but here are some relevant quotes:
5:15: “…The litter problem seems to get worse, sadly and ironically because of scientific advances in modern living…the art of modern packaging has helped to make our outings even more enjoyable. Almost anything we need is conveniently available. But it is these wonderful packages, thoughtlessly discarded, which we convert to litter.”
11:17: “The need has become critical to protect and preserve the lovely land we hold in trust for future generations. The time has come to do something. And by a strange paradox, this is really the easiest of all national problems to solve. Instead of going into the ground or into the water, discards go into a litterbag…”
12:43: “We should remember that group effort is simply individual effort multiplied.”
14:00: plug for Keep America Beautiful
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urban media lab: waste 
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