Category: environment
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Testing Our Waters
Empowering citizen scientists to track and prevent marine pollution.
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The Cost of Warehousing
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Aligning Food Justice Priorities In NYC Greenmarkets
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Climate Justice in Action
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Climate Change and Urban Health
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Design Workshop
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Tar Sands Songbook
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Healthy Affordable Materials Project
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Street Seats
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Integral City
Integral City: Warren is a collaboration between community groups in Warren, Ohio and The New School Urban Collaborative (Milano Finance Lab + Parsons School of Design Strategies) to propose, design and implement visionary new models for urban life.
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Beyond Green
Beyond Green’s Community Builder Kit (CBK) is a customizable tool that invites people to reflect on and identify community groups as well as public spaces in their neighborhood and the relationship between both. The CBK is an open tool, available for download through the Beyond Green website. Each community is encouraged to use it as…
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Participatory Community Engagement Course
In the Participatory Community Engagement course at the Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy, graduate students work with New York City nonprofits to create a space for listening, dialogue and collective analysis of issues of shared concern.
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Sound The Mound
“Sound the Mound” is a project developed by students from the Transdisciplinary Department as part of their core PROJECTS STUDIO 1 course. In this course, they address complex issues of climate, sanitation, landfill reclamation, public parks, cellular technology, public art, sonification and more.
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Do Tank
The Do Tank is an action-oriented design thinking course, tied to a challenge to translate learnings into local impact. In collaboration with different partners every year, the Do Tank cultivates a group of people with varied skillsets to work together on a real-world issue, from collaborative ideation to collaborative creation.
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Tuning Into The Bluegrass
By harnessing the power of art, science and technology, Public Works in collaboration with the Department of Environmental Quality constructed a dynamic network that collects and translates groundwater data from across Kentucky into interactive soundscapes that manifest as public art installations and educational outreach programs.
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Visualizing Pipeline Impacts
Across the Northeastern US, the health and wellbeing of local communities and fragile ecosystems are under significant threat due to an unprecedented rollout of Shale Gas infrastructure. This comes in the forms of fracked gas drilling pads (Hydraulic Fracturing), transecting pipelines and compressor stations.