SSBx Publications Urban Heat Report Urban Heat Island Mitigation Can Improve New York City's Environment: Research on the Impacts of Mitigation Studies Download 10.4 Mb  Survey & Contextual Information on the Hunts Point section of the South Bronx prepared by: SSBx & Warnke Community Consulting Download 3.5 Mb SSBx & GWC Oak Point Eco-Industrial Center Feasibility Study 104 page report on potential uses for a unique piece of waterfront in the South Bronx Download 1.11 Mb Sustainable South Bronx Magazine Spring 2007 issue Download 3.34 Mb   Sustainable South Bronx Report on what other cities are doing  to encourage green building construction. This report co-incided with the announcement of NYC's PlaNYC initiative. by: Rob Craudereuff Download 711 Kb   Elemental carbon and PM(2.5 ) levels in an urban community heavily impacted by truck traffic By: Suvendrini Lena, Victor Ochieng, Majora Carter,José Holguín-Veras, and Patrick L Kinney Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1241027 Effect of Prenatal Exposure to Airborne Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons on Neurodevelopment in the First 3 Years of Life among Inner-City Children Our prospective cohort study of non-smoking African-American and Dominican mothers with their children in New York City Download 128 Kb     Legislation  Supporting Materials EPA Report: Reducing Stormwater Costs through Low Impact Development (LID) Strategies and Practice http://www.epa.gov/owow/nps/lid/costs07/ The Landscape and Human Health Laboratory (LHHL) is a multidisciplinary research laboratory dedicated to studying the connection between greenery and human health   http://www.lhhl.uiuc.edu/index.htm Boundary Breakers: Remarkable People by Jerrill Parham Publisher: Scholastic Library Publishing Pub. Date: September 2007 ISBN-13: 9780531177525 Age Range: 9 to 11 36pp Series: Shockwave: History and Politics http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?r=1&ean=9780531177525   Born in the Bronx A Visual Record of the Early Days of Hip Hop Written by Johan Kugelberg, Contribution by Buddy Esquire and Jeff Chang, Photographed by Joe Conzo, Foreword by Afrika Bambaataa Pub Date: November 2007 US Price: $45.00 CAN Price: $57.00 ISBN: 978-0-7893-1540-3 (0-7893-1540-8) Publisher: Universe Trim Size: 9 x 11 http://www.rizzoliusa.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780789315403 Clean-Tech Proposals   Brief Description Download Full PDF Nathan Carter produced this plan with economics and recreation in mind: the Hunts Point Brewery with an on-site waste water treatment system and methane digester, Alge Bio-Reactorsand carbon capture to produce valuable Bio-Diesel to supply clean fuel for local trucking; and fully incorporates the South Bronx Greenway into this 21st century industrial design. 1.4 Mb This proposal by Ray Williams envisions a parctical and creative way of using Oak Point to help NYC meet its stated goal of planting 1 million trees over the next 10 years using a high performance green house to get new trees started, and then loading them onto barges until the trees are big enough to survive along our streets and greenways.  The barges can be parked in high CO2 concentration areas and along river front parks to augment the amount of green space available. 12.8 Mb "RE-Creating HUB" is the title of  Mr Chen's  piece.  It portrays a materials recovery and light manufacturing center so clean that it is enveloped by new parkland with smashing views of Manhattan to the south. 3.2 Mb Chih Yang's Bio-Industrial Plaza takes advantage of all the resouces passing through the Hunts Point peninsula in the produce markets, sewerage sludge processing plants, along with construction and demolition debris. While the material is currently in existence, it costs time and money to overhaul and remove. This innovative look at waste is an excellent example of how to turn trash into treasure. 19.8 Mb Ian Weiss's approach to the Oak Point site takes into account predicted rises in sea level and frequency of severe storm surge events as outlined by the NYC Office of Emergency Management.  This dire but very realistic template for design rules out any long term dependable use of marine access and recommends restoring the wetlands as a natural mean to protect new infrastructure investment further inland.   The above student proposals are the result of a design studio conducted by Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) and The Fu School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) working in collaboration with Sustainable South Bronx. Technical knowledge was shared through joint seminar sessions and various forms of design collaboration were encouraged between architecture and engineering students. The Urban Design Lab at the Earth Institute (UDL) provided additional input. The studio explored the redevelopment of the Oak Point industrial waterfront in the Hunts Point neighborhood of the South Bronx and was based on the Eco-Industrial Park proposal created by SSBx and Green Worker Cooperatives. The studio explored the issue of a new generation of industry in New York City related to the transformation from a biotic-based economy to a restoration-based economy and from renewable to remediated resources. This investigation was coordinated with the goals of the NYC2030 Plan as developed by the Mayor's Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability. Studio Participants: Critics: Professor Richard Plunz, Professor Patricia Culligan Teaching Fellows: Dimitrios Vlachopoulos, Philip Simmons Architecture Students: Nathan Carter, Terry Chen, Tat Lam, Ian Weiss, Ray Williams, Tom Wu, Chih Yang. Engineering Students: Noah Corwin, Angel Eng, Nathaniel Gale, Ben Isham, Freda Laulicht, Amanda Lurie, Melissa Di Marco, Lisa Papandrea, Shinjinee Pathak, Rohini Sengupta, Jonathan Shalfi, Jonathan Sutter, Alexander Weinberg, Caroline Zennie. Currently the City of New York is attempting to build new jails in the South Bronx. Sustainable South Bronx proposes clean-tech industrial developments that will use barge and rail to take trucks off the streets, clean the air, produce jobs; and reduce our contribution to the global climate crisis by using renewable energy.