Solar powered trash compactor.
Solar powered parking meter.
Solar powered traffic light.
Solar powered bus shelter.
Solar powered municipal wifi?
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The violence of European cartography and partition. Fisk charts a brief history of imperialism and conflict in Lebanon.  ¶

Campus map, by the blind for the blind.  ¶

Our Ailing Communities. “If that poor woman [on the right shoulder, struggling along] had collapsed from heat stroke, we docs would have written the cause of death as heat stroke and not lack of trees and public transportation, poor urban form, and heat-island effects. If she had been killed by a truck going by, the cause of death would have been ‘motor-vehicle trauma,’ and not lack of sidewalks and transit, poor urban ­planning, and failed political leadership.” A brief interview with public-health advocate Richard Jackson.  ¶

Who Knew 04. A student project out of design department at Art Center looks at social issues including the water shortage, e-waste, social design, and other dirty secrets.  ¶

Composting Green Map of Manhattan. “Created by Green Map System and Lower East Side Ecology Center, this pocket-size map shows you where to take your kitchen scraps and organic waste so it can be composted and naturally recycled into rich soil, along with resources so you can start your own composting project at home.”



See the PDF online or send for a free printed map.  ¶

Why Aren’t Athletes Political?. (via)  ¶