Convert NYC into wetlands to hurricane proof the city

A Plan To Hurricane-Proof New York, With A Ring Of Wetlands
By Linda Tischler, fastcodesign.com

A grassy buffer zone around Lower Manhattan might work better than big seawalls—and look better, too.

In the wake of Hur­ri­cane Sandy, there have been a flur­ry of ideas on how to deal with the prospect that storms of such mag­ni­tude may no…

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Eco disaster redistributes tech to those in need

Rogue Hurricane Sandy volunteers are redistributing wealth
By Liat Clark, wired.co.uk

Politics

New York­ers weary of urban inequal­i­ty have taken it upon them­selves to pil­fer equip­ment from lux­u­ry devel­op­ment sites in the after­math of Hur­ri­cane Sandy, and redis­trib­ute it to those in need. The group is oper­at­ing…

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