Learning about and engaging with the environment involves the integration of many disciplines and combines the classroom experience with work in the field, fusing theory and practice. At The New School the nucleus of this engagement is the Tishman Environment and Design Center. It is a place for students and faculty from all colleges and schools to gather, interact, and explore shared experiences. It facilitates research, curriculum development, internships, and fieldwork opportunities. It stimulates critical thinking and builds relationships through lectures, public programs, workshops, and conferences.
The center is exactly that, a center of creative work and experience that allows students and faculty to explore the curriculum, share and interact on projects, and research and work with the community at large to explore opportunities for collaboration.
Our environment is the larger New York metropolitan area. There are many opportunities to work with towns, cities, states, non-governmental groups, corporations, other universities, and other organizations. Through the Tishman Environment and Design Center, we hope to connect students and faculty to this broader coalition to enhance learning, civic engagement, and research.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Euro trash wanted! Sweden’s waste-to-energy program converts household trash into energy, providing electricity and heating to hundreds of thousands of homes across the nation. But the program may be too successful; they’re now running out of homegrown trash to fuel the power plants.
Catarina Ostlund, Senior Advisor for the Swedish EPA, says the country is currently importing 800,000 tons of trash from other European countries. More.
(Photo: The Vattenfall combined heat and power plant in Uppsala, Sweden. From Vattenfall/Flickr)
The Seattle Post Intelligencer’s Pulitzer-winning cartoonist David Horsey takes on climate change denial.
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While you’re up, print me a solar cell
New MIT-developed materials make it possible to produce photovoltaic cells on paper or fabric, nearly as simply as printing a document. […]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lo6h4jqvPB1qb3iw0o1_500.jpg)
While you’re up, print me a solar cell
New MIT-developed materials make it possible to produce photovoltaic cells on paper or fabric, nearly as simply as printing a document. […]
The Navy’s Green Devices: Coming to a Store Near You?
The Department of Defense is the single largest energy purchaser in America, if not the world. That’s why the Navy’s goal to source 50 percent of its energy from alternative fuels by 2020 potentially has huge ramifications for future fuel supplies and alternative energy technologies.
In the past year alone, the Navy has deployed portable solar panels, LED lighting systems, hybrid electric ship technologies, and, perhaps most significantly, so-called “green flights” (using aircraft powered by a mix of fossil fuels and biofuel). Some Marine Corps patrol bases in Afghanistan now operate exclusively on solar powered generators, while China Lake Base in California actually puts energy back into the grid. All of which raises a couple of questions. Why, exactly, is the Navy so determined to become green? And could the average consumer benefit from the new products the Navy is supporting?
Read more at The Atlantic
United States of Science! Brilliant map of how each state shines in science, nature and public health, courtesy of the Mother Nature Network.
Japanese device transforms hot water to energy
Ulvac-Riko Inc., a Japanese vacuum technology company, developed a technology for converting heated water to electricity.
