(Image by WarmSleepy via Creative Commons )
As you might expect, everything is about the hurricane this week. We hope you’re staying warm and dry, and keeping each other safe. And don’t forget that other big story of the month: be sure to vote on Tuesday!
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Featured Site: Storm Stories
Professor King has created a site called “Storm Stories,” where he hopes to collect pictures and stories of City Tech students’ Hurricane Sandy experience. We couldn’t recommend more that you go there and share what you saw, what you did, and how you’re feeling. Please help us create this, please share your stories!
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FEATURED SITE: CUNY CARPOOLING
Not an OpenLab site, but one that might be useful/usable for those of you still having trouble getting around the borough. Some folks at Brooklyn college created this carpooling site for all of CUNY. Go here if you can offer a ride, and here if you need one. Much thanks to all those involved in putting it together.
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FEATURED ARTICLES: A HURRICANE RESOURCE ROUND-UP
As we go back to school and regular life (if we’re lucky), faculty might find themselves looking for resources to spark discussion in their classroom on various issues having to do with the storm. And students, you might find yourself looking for more information about what happened, what it means, or what we as a city and borough might do to prevent it in the future.
Let us admit from the start that these articles were collected by people much smarter than us. We’d particularly like to thank Jen Giesking, John Boy (who led us to /Scott), and other brilliant CUNY folks.
- From social justice advocates:: In Sandy’s Wake, New York’s Landscape of Inequity Revealed by Michelle Chen
- From environmental journalists:: Yes, Hurricane Sandy is a good reason to worry about climate change by Brad Plummer
- From public policy:: Fish on Fridays: Hurricane Sandy, Climate Change, and the Future of Fish by Michael Conathon
- From politics:: Is Sandy a ‘Cassandra’? How Cities Should Prepare for Future Natural Disasters led by Judy Woodruff and Ray Suarez, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Joseph Romm, and Kenneth Green
- From business:: After Hurricane Sandy, NYC Tech found Wanting by Richi Jennings
- From economics:: Market-Based Disaster Justice by HU Press Blog
- From the academy:: There’s No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster by Neil Smith
- From design:: 5 Ideas That Could Have Prevented Flooding in New York by Emily Badger
- From design:: Protecting the City, Before Next Time by Alan Feuer
- Hurricane Sandy, Climate Change, and Presidential Politics.
- A Big Storm Requires Big Government.
- Adapting New York City for Monster Storms.
- A City of Darkness and a City of Light: How Sandy Created Two Manhattans.
- Hurricane Sandy Inspires Historical Superlatives.
- Staten Island Helps Its Own, but More Relief Still Needed.
- It’s Global Warming, Stupid.
- Why the Federal Government Should Handle Disaster Relief.
- We Are All New Orleans Now
- Why Do Hospital Generators Keep Failing?
- Your Climate Change Stat of the Day.
- Hot or Not?
- Not So Fast On Levees and Seawalls for New York?
- Sandy Uproots Tree in New Haven, Reveals Skeleton.
- Ali Velshi, Hurricane Sandy, and Sending Journalists into Storms.
- The Making of Romney’s Storm Relief Event.
- “Nurture and Let Die”: Race, Class and Relief Efforts Post-Sandy
That’s all for this week. Hope everyone is staying dry and warm, and don’t forget to vote!
