Category: Ecology

  • Edward Burtynsky and his photographs

    Edward Burtynsky, the renowned Canadian photographer has been taking pictures of  man-made landscapes for more than 30 years.  His photographs are massive prints of 40×50 inches, capturing the large-scale of human foot print left by industrial activity of past hundred years.  Burtynsky is an artist whose work displays majestic beauty with technical sophistication.  He is often described as an environmental photographer but his office in…

  • Creative Little Garden – East Village, NY

    Recently I was in the East Village and stumbled upon this beautiful little garden, tucked away between two five story buildings on East 6th Street (530 East 6 Street).  This little slice of paradise is aptly named Creative Little Garden.  The garden is planted with ornamental trees and shrubs with several small alcoves where people were sitting…

  • Milk and the Buell Hypothesis

    Close your eyes. Actually, don’t close your eyes – you won’t be able to read this highly insightful and intellectually stimulating blog post. Imagine closing your eyes. Imagine me saying “MILK”. Imagine imagining what associations this creates in your imagination. Chances are you see cookies (yum!), Santa Claus and cookies (even yummier), rolling hills, flower-dotted…

  • The Sandpit

    The Sandpit is a cool depiction of a day in the life of New York City urban landscape. Sam O’Hare’s short film recorded in 35,000 stills on Vimeo has won the 2012 Webby Awards for Best Viral, and the 2010 Prix ARS Electronica Award of Distinction. Sam O’Hare has a degree in architecture from UK and…

  • Building a Common Ground: Integrating Community, Gardens and the Built Environment

    The American Community Gardening Association states that its vision is to have a sustainable community in every garden.  It is a vision that has been playing out across the landscape and in a range of contexts.  This post shares a couple of case studies of how this is being done in new building development projects…

  • The Rehabilitation of Prall’s Island

    Prall’s Island (left) from Saw Mill Creek. Factory in background is on the New Jersey side of the Kill Van Kull. The West Shore of Staten Island seems a world away from the New York City most of us inhabit every day. Factories, power lines, and tug boats are the only vertical relief from the…