Project 1-Bioswales and Tree Pits
-In New York City especially in Manhattan, we can see a lot of tree pits. Tree pits basically is a fence cover around trees and flowers and the soils storms water when it comes to rains. The bioswale is similar but different than the tree pits. Bioswale is larger than the tree pits and contains more flowers, trees, and absorb more waters from the rains. However, bioswale appears mostly in Brooklynn, Queens, and Bronx, but not in Manhattan. The main reason we want to work on this project is to see how the tree pits and bioswales benefit the city and change the city. We break to five parts, history, comparison, location, the effect of the bioswales, future solutions, and bioswale experiment. At first, the bioswales only demonstrate in the neighbourhood areas and this is part of the overall adaptive management approach. After seeing the success of the experiment, NYC expands the number of bioswales to all the locations in Brooklyn, Queens and Bronx. Sustainability: support present & future generations and maintain the condition of the city. The goal is to use water as a resource rather than a waste, build the project capture the rainwater as soon as it hits the impervious area. Not only absorb water, but also enhance local quality of life by beautifying the city and improving city waterways. The effect of bioswales improve water quality, increase infiltration rates, reduces the stormwater runoff and increase biodiversity.
Project 2-Ramen & Dumpling poster
-For this project, we choose ramen and dumpling as the comparison of how the product produced, where they produced, where they sell the product, and where to recycle these. The ramen we chose to do is a Korean ramen, it is called hot chicken flavour ramen. The making of the ramen involves water, flour, sugar, and red pepper. After the product done they will be shifter from Korean to America, and directly to the H mart which is an Asian supermarket. In the end, we listed a few things about how to deal with leftover food and where the leftover goes. The ingredients of the making of dumpling we chose to use local products. The flour, pork, and cabbage we all chose to use local food (we find sources and local food website to support our idea). Aside from the poster we listed thing of the explanation of distribution, how long should you refrigerate food, and how long can you keep leftover in the freezer. And here are our two posters.
Project 3-Frustration-Free Packaging
-At first, we are aiming to come up with an idea that would change the packaging system for online shopping websites. Since there involves transportation management control, it is hard to change the packaging. However, we find out that Amazon has this packaging called Frustration-Free Packaging, it is easier to open and also saved a lot of papers. So our goal shifts to promote the use of Frustration-Free Packaging. The first page we will address the issue: current situation- Online sales are predicted to double—to around 25 per cent of U.S. retail sales within the next decade—and that translates into a literal mountain of cardboard, as well as emissions from freight services. Therefore we need to make a change where people should pay attention to the issue of over packaging. Also, after realizing the problem, more of us should know there is a good method that already exists to alleviate this issue – Frustration-Free Packaging. Our goal is to let more people know about Frustration-Free Packaging since only when the group is big enough, can the change be made. And our method: More and more people nowadays are using social media. A good way of letting people know the information is to put it where people stay the most frequently. Hence, we decided to put up a poster on Instagram and Facebook as a form of advertisement, so when people scrolling it will pop up.
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