I'm now the editor of the Stop Global Warming Blog at change.org. It's consuming my blogging-brain attention, so Apartment Ecology may not be updated for a while.
Thanks for reading so far, and please come on over to globalwarming.change.org, where I'll be covering a lot of the same subjects -- sustainability, cities, diy, more -- with a more pronounced global warming focus.
Video: Courtesy Streetfilms. 10 finalists in New York City's bike rack design competition are having their creations street-tested: prototypes have been installed at Astor Place. They're all pretty neat in one way or another, and it would be great to have any one of them become the official NYC bike rack and well distributed around the city. We're hard up here for good bike parking.
While I've been off tending to non-blog things, news has continued to bubble up, boil over, and froth all around our collective feet. Lots is getting lost in the unrelenting coverage of the Wall Street meltdown. I'll try to save a few stories from the dustheap, below.
Much distinction is being drawn between the concerns of Main Street ("regular" America) and Wall Street (Rich Uncle Milburn Pennybags) -- and how improbable it seems to be to people that the former is going to melt if Big Finance burns. Lately I've been considering that, as Wall Street IS Main Street here in NYC, it's pretty much a win-win for me and my fellow New Yorkers to bail it out.
Mars Lander Detects Falling Snow (BBC News) [[this has nothing to do with cities, the environment, or sustainability -- it's just very exciting news of more proof of water on Mars]]
