Tag: nyc

Tuthilltown Spirits

this looks lovely. i especially liked how he out-maneuvered his NIMBY neighbors:

the “Right to Farm” meant that as long as he was producing agricultural products, nobody, not even the neighbors, could stop him. Even more interesting was that “agriculture” included alcohol production. Wine didn’t interest him, especially with the high competition, but whiskey did.

NYC Green Roofs

The benefits of a green roof, reduction of temperature, are very similar to that of the CoolRoofs, but add oxygen creation, water management and sound dampening.

2019-04-24:

rooftops on new buildings and those that go through extensive renovation on old buildings need to be covered in green roof infrastructure, solar panels or a combination of the 2.

OWS is self-parodying

OWS focused more energy on the mundane logistics of camp life than on organizing for social change. Petty decisions such as how to manage laundry (a multi-day debate), what kind of storage bins to buy (they had to be fair trade and procured through Craigslist), and how to put limits on the drumming circles without alienating them (some considered this a civil rights issue) often sucked up hours of valuable time when put to consensus-based discussion in General Assemblies.

this all reads like a camp organized by the park slope coop.