It’s already well blogged, this vertical farming idea, and its currently the 8th most emailed article on the NYTimes.
Vertical farming is currently only conceptual and is the work of a Columbia professor, Dickson Despommier (of the apple trees) and his grad students. It begins with a skyscraper used to raise food such as fruit, vegetables, […]
Filed under: farm, city, future, environmental planning on July 16th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This “auto-sufficient amphibious” city will mostly likely end up being some kind of eco-resort for the rich long before it becomes a refuge for the displaced. But oh I wish I could live on it now.
Each city-pad can sustain 50,000 inhabitants and includes plans for self-sustainable resources, zero or no co2 emissions, and obviously the […]
Filed under: city, lilypad, future, environmental planning on July 6th, 2008 | No Comments »
Last Autumn I was wondering how or if my interest in anti-war protesting is related to my interest in why environmental activists become, well, active. Somewhere along this trail of inquiry I ran into the theory of Peace Parks.
Wikipedia states that peace parks create friendly borders between countries and encourage natural animal migration patterns, […]
Filed under: parks, eco-tourism, social justice, environmental planning on June 29th, 2008 | No Comments »
A new Google Earth feature (download here) visually represents the rates of deforestation across the world.
Other new features of Google Earth Outreach include layers representing dams to endangered species to the South China Sea project. The Huffington Post asks what other layer could be next. I’m interested to see what global layers exist for public […]
Filed under: environmental planning on June 19th, 2008 | No Comments »
Read this article from the us forest service on our future leisure environments.
photo credit: Svadilfari
This article predicts “the probabilities of future events associated with natural-resource management, wildland-recreation management, environmental pollution, population-workforce-leisure, and urban environments. Though some of the predictions projected to the year 2050 may sound fantastic now, the authors think that some of […]
Filed under: future, natural landscape, environmental planning on June 16th, 2008 | No Comments »
This play on words, Scales of Environmental Justice, as introduced to me by Cindi Katz, points to two ways we can think about and study environmental justice.
In GIS research (and others which emphasize horizontal geography) scale can refer to the scale of analysis used in a study and the socio-economic and demographic characteristics of populations […]
Filed under: natural landscape, social justice, environmental planning on June 1st, 2008 | No Comments »
Stewardship can be defined as an individual’s responsibility to exercise care over possessions entrusted to him or her. Environmental stewardship implies caring for, ensuring well-being, maintaining vigilance, accepting personal responsibility, and understanding the importance of environmental accountability (Beavis, 1994). It also implies responsible management of natural resources for the benefit of present and future generations […]
Filed under: anthro of property, natural landscape, environmental planning on April 18th, 2008 | No Comments »
Although tourism can be defined in different ways it is essentially the activity of a tourist, “a temporarily leisured person who voluntarily visits a place away from home for the purpose of experiencing a change” (Smith 1989, 2). Graburn (1989) characterized tourism as a kind of ritual process that reflects society’s deeply held values about […]
Filed under: anthro of property, natural landscape, environmental planning on April 17th, 2008 | No Comments »
Landscapes are symbolic environments created when persons place meaning in nature and the environment and give the environment definition and form according to particular perspectives, values and beliefs. (Berger & Luckman 1967). Cultural groups transform the natural environment into landscapes through the use of different symbols that bestow different meanings on the same physical objects. […]
Filed under: anthro of property, natural landscape, environmental planning on April 16th, 2008 | No Comments »
So I’ve decided to change my paper to this:
“Competition for access to resources, whether that resource is potable water, a presidential nomination, housing, or profitable land pushes individuals and groups to construct social and economic institutions that enable such access (Radin, 1993; Schwartz, 2006). This paper will discuss access to private land as it occurs […]
Filed under: anthro of property, natural landscape, environmental planning on April 15th, 2008 | No Comments »
