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POPSbuffalo does nothing to reduce carbon footprint A shame. There is still a press release about mayor Brown signing this agreement after he took office, but we still have no action plan in place. The city is concerned about attracting green business, but there has been little effort to create sweeping changes that are necessary to develop the type of community these sought-after businesses would like to move into. Buffalo is not conducive for green business the way it is right now, because there is just too much work to be done. We have no green infrastructure. Hardly any workers skilled in green jobs, construction, too few citizens who have any idea what it is to live sustainably— we hardly recycle, our rainwater still blends with our shit, and permeable pavement is practically illegal in the hippest neighborhood we have.
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POPSGreen Schools Maybe I'm just missing something that has been going on behind the scenes, but it seems to me that the Buffalo Board of Education has not been incorporating rigorous standards into the massive rehabilitation of the schools which started a couple of years ago- but I will have to check on this a bit more. I think that it would probably be beneficial to halt the plans in order to incorporate more green strategies rather than continueing on at this point and then having to make changes in a couple of years when the government requires such measures of public facilities.
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POPSBook- Clean Your Air Plants can clean the air? Fancy that. Never knew. The things we learn, maybe there is something to old wives tales, ritual, and common sense after all. hmm...
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POPScost of paying public servants the city is actually paying employees with this 4-5million. If you take a look at the Artvoice published a month or so a go, you will see that the majority of CDBG funds are going to build and demolish houses with overhead costs that are 3* the amount of the funds that actually get houses built.
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POPSGreen Demolishing... um, Washing Buffalo Why The Mayor of Buffalo is the Biggest Contributor to Greenhouse Gas in Buffalo, NY. Maybe they just don't understand that by sending perfectly above average sustainably harvested wood products to the dump and building new houses with unsustainably harvested wood they are damaging our planet as well as our culture. How can we as a city claim to be trying to woo green businesses when our actions and policies support this kind of hypocrisy?
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POPSArtSpace Affordable Housing in Buffalo w/ a twist someone is doing something a little bit progressive
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POPSSycamore Village Mold New Builds don't work if you don't build them well. Why do we keep building & demolishing, building & demolishing?
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POPSRePurpose: Hollow-Core Doors I looked thyis one up b/c in one of my design books hollow-core doors are used to make super fabulous- modern, cheap or free, bookshelves when used in combination w/ galvanized pipe!
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