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.
Marc Lefkowitz |
06/08/18 @ 11:00am | Posted in Local food system
Almost a decade on from Northeast Ohio’s food study, the one that made waves because it contained a BHAG (big hairy audacious goal) to shift 25% of the food we eat to local, one of the needs identified—to concentrate the many, small, regional farmers, urban gardeners and flea and farmer’s market purveyors as an entity—is finally being met.
Food hubs could...
Marc Lefkowitz |
05/30/18 @ 3:00pm | Posted in Connecting to nature, Transportation
This year's entries into Greater Cleveland's Trails and Greenways Conference are inspiring—in imagination, but also, in the highest category, for achieving much sought after equity and improved access to low cost and low carbon forms of active transportation. Full disclosure: I participated with a panel of local transportation experts in selecting the 2018 winners.
Marc Lefkowitz |
05/29/18 @ 11:00am | Posted in Climate, Plants & animals
Stephen Palumbi considers himself an optimist, despite the scary data on ocean health that keeps washing up on his shore.
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