Tag Archives: 2012
NYC Water Supply: Downstate Stakeholder
As a downstate stakeholder of the New York City water supply shed, it would be imperative for the City to acquire certain properties upstate for the safety and sanitation of the water shed. The necessity to prevent the contamination or … Continue reading
Questions for Author Emma Marris
1. In the book, Marris suggested many different strategies in tackling the problems of current conservation problems. While it was made clear that a combination of techniques would be required to stabilize our world, which one would Marris prioritize first? … Continue reading
Post 10/7/12: Poster Questions
How have beekeeping policies affected biodiversity and flora patterns? How have bees themselves coped with the urban environment? How has air traffic affected the migratory patterns of birds over New York City? To what extent is the disruption as significant … Continue reading
Post 10/3/12: Rambunctious Garden 10
As far as endings go, Marris’ last chapter in Rambunctious Garden was certainly a hodgepodge of ideas. However, they are admittedly more ambiguously biased than the previous ideas and chapters that she proposed. For everything from saving species to sustaining … Continue reading
Post 9/30/12: Rambunctious Garden 8, 9
The preceding chapters seem to be about shedding some light on misguided ecological presumptions about conservation and preservation. In chapters 8 and 9, however, Marris’ focus seems more shifted toward an economic standpoint. She emphasizes the point of utilizing every … Continue reading
Post 9/27/12: Rambunctious Garden 6, 7
As I continue to peruse Rambunctious Garden, it seems like more of my (perhaps shallow) presumptions about conservation are being increasingly challenged with common sense. And that, in truth, makes sense, as propaganda has often been biased and seen through … Continue reading
Post 9/22/12: High Line Park
The High Line Park is an exquisite example of a metropolitan take on nature. Situated atop an abandoned railway, the longitudinal park is filled with various sorts of flora, from grass and flowers to shout and sturdy trees. The plants … Continue reading
Post 9/12/12: Rambunctious Garden 5
The idea of assisted migration, in which humanity plans and (eventually) moves certain species that are endangered by climate change into a more suitable environment, sounds considerably less preposterous than Pleistocene rewilding. It is not as extreme as rewilding; rather … Continue reading
Post 9/9/12: Rambunctious Garden 3, 4
The concept of rewilding is a very radical and grandiose idea. Specifically Pleistocene rewilding, the idea of recreating ancient, pre-human ecosystems (before even native human inhabitants) using existing species as proxies is an incredible project. To be fair, if the … Continue reading
Post 9/5/12: Rambunctious Garden 1, 2
In the first chapters of Emma Marris’ Rambunctious Garden, she quickly indicates—and likely will continue to reinforce in later chapters—the problem with many conservation projects: it is just not that simple. Preservation is not as easy as planting a tree … Continue reading
Richard Chan: Post 8/30/12–Anthropocene
Antrhropocene: the era of humanity. Specifically, anthropocene refers to the industrial and post-industrial era of humanity, when people around the world began to take over land, as well as sea, that had been previously untouched or unhindered by humankind, and … Continue reading
