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| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY MAY 16, 2012  Architecture and Planning Industry Stats on LinkedIn US Cities: Greater New York City Area 37,569. Greater Philadelphia 8,227. So you’re country or city isn’t listed? Architecture in Bermuda 1939 – before LinkedIn existed Architects and Planners have been busy creating profiles on LinkedIn. India 69,140. Italy 63,357. United Kingdom 59,815. Brazil 50,974. Spain 43,815. Netherlands 29.585. | GREEN GODDESS JUNE 15, 2011  Fab-tastic Today's New York Times has a great article on a Pre-fab project used for student housing. Squeezing Costs, Builders Take New Look at Prefab By RONDA KAYSEN New York Times, June 15, 2011 PHILADELPHIA — A package arrived on a shabby north Philadelphia block in January 2010, wrapped in Tyvek and measuring 55 feet long and 16 feet wide. Is the desire? | | | | | |
| GREEN GODDESS MAY 23, 2011  Proposition B I found an interesting article via Reuters about a new concept in Business called a "B Corp." They say a new kind of corporate legal structure is needed to require companies to operate for the good of society, not just for their shareholders. We can't have a new economy unless we have a new type of corporation," Jay told me. And third, B Corps is pushing for new laws. | GREEN GODDESS APRIL 11, 2011  The Grapes of Wrath As we hear the destruction of many of our once urban hubs - Detroit, Cleveland come to mind - we believe that the entire cities are now destitute and those who live there either too poor or too stupid to leave. Much of this is of course racial with Detroit being America's most segregated city. Between 2000 and 2009, six of them lost population – led, not surprisingly, by New Orleans. | GREEN GODDESS APRIL 1, 2011  Jobs or Just McJobs New York City (including the outer boroughs)gained only 127,000 in residents since the last Census. If there is ever a city that demonstrates the current two tier economy its this one. Cities for the rich and those who are too poor to leave and work in service jobs and others moving further away to areas they can manage to find work and manage to live above water. | GREEN GODDESS NOVEMBER 24, 2009 Water Water Everywhere We are not the only city that suffers and currently our biggest problems are with again infrastructures that cannot handle the population, the change in climate and the simple fact they are OLD. Will they make a contribution to our City Light and Water Department for the increase in capacities that building will lead to? Are they taking measures to incorporate grey water and renewable energy sources as to not further deplete our cities municipal grids? Likely no and the City does not require such investment. Reducing such overflows is a priority, city officials say. | | | | | | | |
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GREEN GODDESS | TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 2010 The War Against Brains
showed her an article I read in this mornings New York Times about the current state of our college bound students. But the New York City Department of Education acknowledges that despite rising graduation rates, many graduates lack basic skills, and it is trying to do something about it. This year, for the first time, it has sent detailed reports to all of its high schools, telling them just how many of their students who arrived at the city’s public colleges needed remedial courses, as well as how many stayed enrolled after their first semester. MORE >>
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