Sustainability Study: Waste and Urban Ecology in New York City

http://www.nyc.gov/html/nycwasteless/downloads/pdf/wp-reports/wprr06.pdf

Hi all,

If we divide this project into 3 phases, how dose the schedule of project look like?

Phase I: Food Waste (Summer 2013?)

Phase II: Data Mapping (Fall 2013?)

Phase III: Rat (Spring 2014?)

Masa

Food Waste Generation
+ Collected socieconomic parameters and waste data (Jeremy, Ben, Masa)
+ Creating a food waste distribution (Masa)
+ Developing Food waste generation model (Masa)

Data Mapping
+ Creating layers for food waste and rats using GIS or Google Map/earth (Ben)

Rat
+ Creating a rat distribution
+ Investigating rat behaviors
+ Developing Agent Model for rats (Ben)

Any opinion?

http://gothamist.com/2013/04/30/photos_video_rat-hunting_in_nyc_wit.php?utm_source=feedly#photo-1

http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/downloads/pdf/rats/aggregate-data-2012.pdf

Rat Information Portal The Rat Information Portal RIP provides information on rats in NYC. Use this site to make maps and learn about what you can do to prevent and manage rats.Rats can be a property, block or neighborhood problem and require a coordinated response: property owners, tenants, businesses and government need to work together. Please refer to “Working in Your Community” for more ideas. Whats New?Neighborhood-wide rat inspections spur property owner control measures, boost community clean-up, and are more effective than the old approach. Findings from the Bronx rat initiative are reported in the September 21, 2012, issue of the “Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report,” a national publication of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  Please visit out our new online  map and property look up tool.

via NYC DOHMH – Environmental Health – Rat Information Portal.

Sustainable City 2013

Download Pdf

8th International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability

3 – 5 December, 2013

Putrajaya, Malaysia

via Sustainable City 2013 | 13 Conferences.

This is not a conference, but it’s an opportunity to show our data.

Call for papers: Industrial Ecology as a Source of Competitive Advantage in Business.

Pied piper a plague risk?
Mostly about how small reservoirs can still carry epidemic disease

The computer model shows that plague can persist in very low rat populations (about 60,000) and spreads to humans only when some random event reduces rodent numbers. And it simulates what happens when there is a drastic reduction in rat numbers, caused by anything from mass poisonings to a strangely dressed man playing a hypnotic pipe.

Also, the 48 year “rat flood” know as the bamboo death that results in famine.

GPS

Racoon tracking and the GPS units.
And here’s a little clip with a surprising revelation in an episode of Nature.

Something I saw yesterday coming into Pearl. Like an idiot, I forgot to turn my phone sideways.