City buildings use massive amounts of energy, but no one really knows exactly how much. A new interactive map pulls the curtains off New York's electric bills.READ»
Your impatience to get to your destination is costing you money. But a new app helps pressure you to slow down just a little bit, maximizing your car's efficiency, and your savings.READ»
The award-winning apps from this years Cleantech Hackathon do everything from comparing the efficiency of appliances to figuring out which building in your city is the worst polluter.READ»
Irene did less damage than expected, but when the next big storm comes (and it will), cities that have made innovative decisions in how they run operations will be better off.READ»
Using one of the city's many stalled construction sites as a home, the farm of New York's Riverpark restaurant supplies the kitchen with fresh produce, without having a permanent home.READ»
When is a city like a startup? Last weekend, the City of New York hosted a hackathon to re-envision its website, NYC.gov. Here's what geeks from Manhattan, NY, to Manhattan, Kansas, had to say about how a gov site should serve its citizens. READ»
Using a system of sensors and cameras, the new program lets city engineers control traffic signals in real time in response to changing road conditions.READ»
Among the high-rises that have sprung up like so much tall grass along Chelsea’s High Line, stands the Metal Shutter Houses, Shigeru Ban’s relatively humble contribution to the area that has been dubbed Starchitect Row. Sandwiched ...READ»
Manhattan inaugurated the hotly anticipated second stretch of the High Line on Tuesday with something entirely befitting one of the most mind-blowing parks of the century: "inflatable sculptures" that look like Willa Wonka's garden on ...READ»
We're excited to announce the final Breakfast Briefings session in partnership with Bryant Park. Join us on Tuesday, September 27 for an engaging conversation with MLB.com CEO Bob Bowman.What surprises and challenges are in store for ...READ»
Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the winner of NYC’s hotly anticipated taxi-design competition yesterday. The 10-year, $1 billion contract to furnish New York with thousands of taxis -- taxis that’ll define the visual landscape ...READ»
You can swipe them, sculpt with them, hell, you can magically raise their value to the raging chagrin of 8.4 million people. Now, thanks to one enterprising artist, you can park your behind on them, too.
Brooklyn-based Stephen ...READ»
New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Philadelphia, and Houston are all expected to have higher than average electric vehicle sales over the next six years--brace for grid strain. READ»
NYC's Urban Technology Innovation Center will bring together green building technology companies with the building owners who want to test them out.READ»
The New York City Department of Transportation is issuing a request for proposals on Wednesday--and it hopes to have a program up and running by 2012.READ»
Her public health insurance company for low-income individuals, Affinity Health Plan, won her the regional award and now she's off to Palm Springs to compete for the national award.READ»
A light installation that looks like dancing human ghosts opened in Manhattan’s Madison Square Park last week, just in time for Halloween.
Scattered Light, by SF-based multimedia artist Jim Campbell, is a grid of ...READ»
Too often, we find ourselves applying the "focus group of one" mentality to our work, assuming that the place we're from is indicative of what the country--or the world--thinks. But we have to strive to challenge our own geographic assumptions and bring a diversity of cultural perspectives to the discussion.READ»
