Sustainability Study: Waste and Urban Ecology in New York City

Hi all,

Regarding waste field work, my student David did a great work: he measured the garbage in trash cans in parks in several mornings, and mapped it using google Map.

https://mapsengine.google.com/map/edit?mid=zbEsPCBKabJQ.k14Ihu7SjIMY

Waste Modeling

Subway Study Shows Which Boroughs Have The Most Rats, Filth, Darkness

via Subway Study Shows Which Boroughs Have The Most Rats, Filth, Darkness: Gothamist.

NYPIRG Straphangers’ Campaign Platform Survey.

Here’s an article that features Bobby. Remember how he was telling us about the birth control in the subways during the rat safari?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324662404578334430034347550.html

Hey guys,

I saw this and thought of you all. I had spoken about this will Bobby and how using pheromones could perhaps be helpful in controlling the populations. I wasn’t that far off…

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/giving-feral-cats-vasectomies-works-better-than-neutering-them

Here’s an interesting dataset that could be useful for us

Here’s an interesting piece about Robin Nagle’s Picking Up. When we were on the Rat Safari, it was mentioned to us, as well as Robert Sullivan’s Rats.