Organikos posted: " Discovery inspires. Participation motivates. Discovery + Participation + Organization = Results Click any of the images above to go to the website of an organization featured in the article below. It will make more sense after reading the arti"
Click any of the images above to go to the website of an organization featured in the article below. It will make more sense after reading the article. But do visit the site and consider volunteering. Take some kids along.
Eric Klinenberg's work on the topic of libraries provided a sense of common cause. After featuring so many stories about libraries and librarians (my more recent personal anecdote was purposely brief so did not relay how many ways my local library impacted my young life, a topic for another day), his book summed up much of what we believed. Advocating for libraries was something a talented academic could do on a larger scale than we could in these pages, especially with publications like those. Bravo. And now this.
In New York, Kate Orff will use oyster reefs to mitigate storm surges. Photograph by Thomas Prior for The New Yorker
After lots of attention to rewilding in these pages, plenty of it related to urban landscapes, the same author that further illuminated our understanding about the value of libraries has convinced me of how much more there is to learn on this topic:
How a landscape architect is enlisting nature to defend our coastal cities against climate change—and doing it on the cheap.
On a windy afternoon in April, the landscape architect Kate Orff stood on the open walkway of a container crane, some eighty feet above the Red Hook Terminal, in Brooklyn, and the Buttermilk Channel, a tidal strait on the southeast side of Governors Island. Continue reading "Nature, Intervention & Protection"
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