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October 14th, 2012 · Enter your password to view comments. · Brooklyn Bridge Park

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Sustainable Campuses- Issues and Concepts

October 14th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Brooklyn College

“Sustainable Campuses – Issues and Concepts.” Sustainable Campuses. Sustainable Campus Organization, n.d. Web. 14 Oct. 2012. <http://www.sustainablecampus.org/universities.html>. This is a website dedicated to the idea of sustainable campuses. This particular page is one that was created in order to bring to light exactly what it says: the issues facing sustainable campuses, as well as the […]

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When Parks Must Rely On Private Money

October 14th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Brooklyn Bridge Park

Cardwell, Diane. “When Parks Must Rely On Private Money.” New York Times 07 Feb. 2010: 1. Academic Search Complete. Web. 14 Oct. 2012. Diane Cardwell is a Business Day reporter for The New York Times covering energy. In this article she talks about how the Brooklyn Bridge Park is still lacking the money it needs to completely finish […]

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A Ride With Head-Spinning Views

October 14th, 2012 · No Comments · Brooklyn Bridge Park

Wadler, Joyce. “A Ride With Head-Spinning Views.” New York Times. 1 Sept. 2011. Web. 10 Oct. 2012. < http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/02/arts/design/janes-carousel-at-brooklyn-bridge-park.html> Joyce Wadler, a reporter for the New York Times for the Arts and Design section, provided readers of the background behind Jane’s Carousel in Brooklyn Bridge Park. She summarized the history of the development plans for […]

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Cancer Incidence among Former Love Canal Residents.

October 14th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Gowanus Canal

Gensburg L, Pantea C, Kielb C, Fitzgerald E, Stark A, Kim N. Cancer Incidence among Former Love Canal Residents. Environmental Health Perspectives [serial online]. August 2009;117(8):1265-1271. Available from: Academic Search Complete, Ipswich, MA. Accessed October 14, 2012. http://ez-proxy.brooklyn.cuny.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=44199011&site=ehost-live This article was written by the University of Albany, and I felt that there was little to no bias […]

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Campus Sustainability: It’s About People

October 14th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Brooklyn College

Newport, Dave. “Campus Sustainability: It’s About People.” The Chronicle. The Chronicle of Higher Education, n.d. Web. 14 Oct. 2012. <http://chronicle.com/article/Campus-Sustainability-Its/131370/>. This is an article written by Dave Newport, the director of the Environmental Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder and secretary of the board of directors of the Association for the Advancement of […]

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Sustainable Flatbush

October 14th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Brooklyn College

http://sustainableflatbush.org/ This is a surprisingly well made site (in comparison to ones made by or about Brooklyn College itself) of an organization that works in the same neighborhood as Brooklyn College. The source is of course a little self congratulatory and that should be taken into account. It is “fiscally sponsored by the Open Space […]

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A simple method to synthesize modified Fe3O4 for the removal of organic pollutants on water surface

October 14th, 2012 · No Comments · Gowanus Canal

Zhu L, Li C, Xie A, et al. A simple method to synthesize modified Fe3O4 for the removal of organic pollutants on water surface. Applied Surface Science [serial online]. June 15, 2012;258(17):6326-6330. Available from: Academic Search Complete, Ipswich, MA. Accessed October 14, 2012. http://ez-proxy.brooklyn.cuny.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=74497812&site=ehost-live The authors of Applied Surface Science wrote this article in order to inform […]

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U.S. Progress Toward Sustainability in Higher Education

October 14th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Brooklyn College

Dernbach, John C. “U.S. Progress Toward Sustainability in Higher Education.” Stumbling toward Sustainability. Washington, DC: Environmental Law Institute, 2002. N. pag. Print. This is a chapter in John C. Dernbach’s book, Stumbling Toward Sustainability, written in 2002 on the subject of how the United States has made notable improvements in their sustainability policies. The purpose […]

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Study of Ground Water Quality In Industrial Zone Of Visakhapatnam.

October 14th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Gowanus Canal

Rameeza S, Srikant V, Mallikarjuna Rao D, Ramakrishna C. Study of Ground Water Quality In Industrial Zone Of Visakhapatnam. Advances In Applied Science Research [serial online]. August 2012;3(4):2463-2467. Available from: Academic Search Complete, Ipswich, MA. Accessed October 14, 2012 http://ez-proxy.brooklyn.cuny.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=79622860&site=ehost-live Although this study does indeed help us draw some inferences about the residents around the Gowanus canal, […]

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