Tag: Buffalo
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Restoring Buffalo's Once Great Train Station Starts with an Outdoor Eco-Classroom
An ambitious restoration of Buffalo's abandoned Central Terminal has begun with the creation of an urban habitat classroom.
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Another Reason To Move To Buffalo: The Architecture Is Amazing
A year ago I wrote If You Really Want To Get Off Oil, Move To Buffalo, about its incredible infrastructure. What I didn't know at the time was that its architecture is absolutely extraordinary, and that the city is going
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Another Reason To Move To Buffalo: The Architecture Is Amazing
What a collection of buildings from some of the best architects in America, as it undergoes a rebirth and revitalization
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BMW Made The First Move On Washington State Hydro Power. Who's Next?
A few weeks ago I speculated that passage of a Cap & Trade bill would cause existing US manufacturers to relocate not to China but to states with greener power. BMW it turns out has decided not
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Meme Watch: The Hundred Mile Holiday
Four years ago the Tyee published an article by Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon called Living on the 100-Mile Diet; it became a meme, a successful book and a television show. Now the Tyee is in the meme biz again, with the
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Making Solar Panels Sustainably: Niagara Falls To Power New Solarworks Plant
Niagara Falls. Image credit:State University of New York What is the ultimate green solar panel? A true-green solar panel must have the following characteristics: design life of major components of equal length (functionality lasts as long as the
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Urban Farming Struggles Into Buffalo
Where is Grant Wood when you need him, to paint this scene of a reverse migration, two farmers from Wyoming who want to want to farm on the East Side of Buffalo. But the planting season is running out from under them, as they
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Fannie, Freddie and the Future of Housing, Innovation and Green Design
The Federal National Mortgage Association, previously known affectionately as Fannie Mae, was founded in 1938 by Franklin Roosevelt as part of the New Deal, to provide liquidity
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Hydro Green Energy Plans Two, 70-megawatt, Current-Based, HydroKinetic Projects In Niagara River: Whose Power Is It?
The Buffalo News Opinion has been covering a proposal by Hydro Green Energy to deploy in situ' power generators in the Niagara River. Each facility, if built as envisioned, will produce 582,540,000 kWh a year, enough clean energy for nearly 39,000
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Richard Florida on Tor-Buf-Chester
Richard Florida wrote in the Globe and Mail (and I can't link because of their stupid fence) about the possible economic engine that could be Toronto, Buffalo and Rochester. Tor-Buff-Chester is bigger than the San Francisco-Silicon Valley mega-region,
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Echoing Green: Source of Seed Money to Bright Ideas Everywhere
Every year, Echoing Green awards two-year fellowships to emerging social innovators who are busy creating new organizations, providing them with the seed money and technical support that enables them to green light innovative ideas turning dreams into
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Razing Buffalo: Why is This Happening?
When I was in high school, we used to race to Buffalo on double lunches. It had everything: great art deco buildings, great shopping and terrific wings. It also has a great location on the biggest source of fresh water in the world, Niagara Falls for
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Deconstructing Buffalo
There are 10,000 abandoned houses in Buffalo, New York; instead of just wrecking them, non-profit Buffalo ReUse is taking them apart and selling the materials and components. From the Buffalo News: "We saved 4 million pounds from the landfill each
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The Full Cleveland (and Buffalo)
Murray Whyte of the Star notes that not a drop of rain has fallen on Phoenix in the last month, the temperature was over 110 degrees for ten straight days and brushfires are burning everywhere.
