Tea Drunk: A Taste of Ancient China in NYC On October 3rd, 2017 Shunan Teng, founder of Tea Drunk hosted the LS section of Sustainable Systems at her shop… Posted on: October 14, 2017 By: krusej
IS THIS THE ANTHROPOCENE? The Anthropocene has been proposed as a new geologic epoch, named for human impact upon the planet and its ecosystems… Posted on: May 17, 2015 By: krusej
GETTING TO KNOW CLIMATE CHANGE Climate Change Is Complex. We’ve Got Answers to Your Questions, NY Times, September, 2017 Optimism Faces Grave Realities at Climate Talks,… Posted on: May 17, 2015 By: krusej
RESILIENT DESIGN Building anything on this sandy edge is daunting, given the fact that the annual shoreline erosion rate is about one and… Posted on: May 16, 2015 By: krusej
OBSERVING COMPLEX CLIMATE SYSTEMS Scientists predict by 2050 that New York City will see an increase in average precipitation by 5 or 10 percent. (Currently, there is an average of about… Posted on: May 16, 2015 By: krusej
LONG-TERM DESIGN THINKING A stone tablet in Aneyoshi, Japan, warns residents not to build homes below it. Hundreds of these so-called tsunami stones,… Posted on: May 16, 2015 By: krusej
PSYCHOLOGY OF CLIMATE CHANGE “We need art that does not make people think (we have quite enough environmental art that does that), but rather… Posted on: May 15, 2015 By: krusej