Marc Lefkowitz |
08/07/18 @ 11:00am | Posted in Vibrant cities, Transportation choices
“People want amenities,” said Cuyahoga County Planning Director, Glenn Coyne, speaking to attendees of the 2018 Trails and Greenways Conference. “A coffee shop. A trail. Something other than ‘oh my god, we’re declining.’”
Marc Lefkowitz |
08/02/18 @ 11:00am | Posted in Climate, Water, Shaping the land
A recent exchange with a colleague about the health of Lake Erie ended in something of a stalemate. We both shared concerns about water quality and environmental degradation and how the lake, our drinking water supply, will be affected by harmful algae blooms, climate change-induced weather, and the creation of artificial reefs off the coast of Cleveland from the soil...
Marc Lefkowitz |
07/31/18 @ 11:00am | Posted in Climate
With global warming starting to make its presence felt, we present five important things Clevelanders can do to reduce their environmental impact.
Marc Lefkowitz |
07/17/18 @ 10:00am | Posted in Climate
In her book, The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and The American Tragedy author Anna Clark recounts how the water supply for an entire city could be contaminated with lead, a neurotoxin that made countless residents very ill. The crisis, unfortunately, was nothing new. Places like Love Canal, and big cities like Cleveland and Washington, D.C. defined massive-scale environmental tragedy.
What made...
Marc Lefkowitz |
06/21/18 @ 11:00am | Posted in Transform
In his 2016 book, The Well-Tempered City, socially active developer Jonathan Rose makes a compelling case that cities will survive in our “VUCA times” (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity) by tapping the innovation gene that can be found in Johann Sebastian Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier which modernized music. Bach’s circle of fifths tuning method is an example for cities.