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Program Guide to Brooklyn: A Student Perspective

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Hi, I’m Hannah! I spent last summer with Sustainable Summer, both in Brooklyn, NY and Costa Rica. I chose these two programs for the incredibly different learning opportunities they offer, and for perspectives on both urban and rural sustainability initiatives. Here’s my take on Brooklyn! So, what is the Brooklyn program all about? The Sustainable… Read More

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Our Last Few Days in Brooklyn

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Two action-packed weeks have come to a close. The last 72 hours included a visit to the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment facility, Kingsland Wildflowers, a walking tour of the financial district, the Billion Oyster Project, and lots of time dedicated towards our design challenge. The program concluded with some classic NYC experiences – Broadway (Phantom… Read More

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Gowanus, Red Hook, Broadway, and More

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We’ve been staying busy in Brooklyn (and Manhattan) with our time split between site visits, project ideation, and workshops. Friday began with a session on design thinking methodology followed by a visit to Higgins Hall, the site of our design challenge. Students took some initial measurements to understand the volume of stormwater runoff from the… Read More

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Brooklyn Update: Kayaking, Rockaway, and More

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Greetings from NYC where we have had a busy four days! We kicked off our session on urban sustainability with a visit to the SIMS recycling facility in Sunset Park followed by lunch at the Industry City food hall just down the street. Then it was time for our sustainability scavenger hunt, with teams solving… Read More

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Welcome to Brooklyn 2019

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Counting down the hours until we welcome our 2019 Brooklyn cohort. It is going to be an awesome two weeks and we hope you all are getting ready to have a super fun, interesting, and engaging time in the greatest city on earth (I”m biased)! We’ll be kayaking in the Hudson harbor, exploring NYC’s renowned… Read More

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Brooklyn Update: Kayaking, Governors Island, Rockaways

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Greetings from a still unseasonably hot NYC. We shuffled some things around with the program agenda due to the relentless heat for the past five or so days, but spirits are still high as we round the corner into our final full day of the program. Tomorrow, we’ll have our design challenge presentations in the… Read More

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Brooklyn Update: Green and Grey Infrastructure Plus Lots of NYC Fun and Culture

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What have we been up to for the past 48 hours or so? Thursday morning started with a bit of serendipity as we awoke to rumbles of thunder and some heavy rain, a perfect start to a day focused on NYC’s water infrastructure. Where does all of that rainfall go? Let’s find out. Skies had… Read More

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Brooklyn Update: Scavenger Hunt, SIMS Recycling, Brooklyn Grange, and Red Hook

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We’re about to wrap up our third full day in Brooklyn. Here is a brief summary of what we’ve been up to and a bunch of photos: We kicked things off on Day 1 with a keynote address from Pete Dominick, radio host, CNN commentator, and standup comedian. Morning of Day 2 took us up… Read More

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Welcome to Brooklyn 2018

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Greetings from Brooklyn. We’re getting fired up for the start of our Brooklyn: Urban Environmental Systems program. We (Cathy, Joanna, Jenny, and Jeff) have been busy for the last few days getting ready for everyone arriving tomorrow. We have so many fun and interesting things planned for the next two weeks. Can’t wait to meet… Read More

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