Pulse Magazine
Spring 2017
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There’s a farm in the middle of Greenwich Village, but you’d never see it from the street.
Like all the best things in New York, the farm is hidden away from the predatory tourist, who is often starved by banality and armed with a camera.
Rosemary’s is an unconventionally traditional farm to table Italian restaurant with a roof full of herbs and vegetables just a staircase away from dining patrons.
By Mackenzie Caldwell
Photo Courtesy of Mack Caldwell
Sustainable
Clothing
Photo provided by Elizabeth Flading of Lur Apparel.
By Carson Lombardi
The massive amounts of plastic found in the ocean can now be viewed as raw material for clothing companies. Consumers are willing to underwrite the cost of this cutting edge new technology—turning recycled ocean plastic into wearable material—for the environmental and humanitarian benefits.
Every year, 8 million metric tons of plastic end up in our oceans, according to a February 2015 study conducted by UC Santa Barbara’s National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis. That is equivalent to five grocery bags filled with plastic for every foot of coastline in the world. Plastic-pollution.org estimates that the annual input is estimated to be twice that by 2025.
Lets Go Fly
A Kite
Lets Go Fly
A Kite
Photo Courtesy of Deepwater Wind LLC.
By Tyler Paola
By Tyler Paola
After years of hindered progress, the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) has reached an agreement with Deepwater Wind, LLC to build the nation’s largest wind farm off the coast of Long Island.
As conventional power plants become increasingly scarce, states have begun to look for alternate forms of generating power. Wind turbines have been built on land for millennia, and though it is cheaper and less complicated to build them on land, developers have been expanding out to sea, along the country’s coasts, with the hope of catching some of the strongest wind resources in the world. The East Coast in particular possesses great opportunity due to its strong wind and shallow waters.
After years of hindered progress, the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) has reached an agreement with Deepwater Wind, LLC to build the nation’s largest wind farm off the coast of Long Island.
As conventional power plants become increasingly scarce, states have begun to look for alternate forms of generating power. Wind turbines have been built on land for millennia, and though it is cheaper and less complicated to build them on land, developers have been expanding out to sea, along the country’s coasts, with the hope of catching some of the strongest wind resources in the world. The East Coast in particular possesses great opportunity due to its strong wind and shallow waters.
Green Roofs
The Future of Modern Architecture
Photo Courtesy of Gracen Hansen
By Gracen Hansen
Take the grass we walk around on, put it above you and see what happens. Green Roofs, or vegetation as a replacement for tiles or shingles, are an environmental revolution for the urban cityscape. Green Roofs in Canada have been doing just that.
Planting low-growing vegetation on the roof of a building creates multiple environmental benefits. According to Kara Orr from Green Roofs, having a green roof, “reduces energy use by keeping the building cooler, prevents water [and] pipe contamination and helps with rain water drainage.”
A Sunny Future
For Long Island
By Sean Bates
Solar panels are popping up around Long Island suburbs like crabgrass. Solar panel installations have increased by over 600 percent according to a press release from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority.
“Even since 2011 when we had fewer than 5,000 [solar panel installations], we’ve grown to about 38,000,” says Bob Boerner, manager of PSEG Long Island’s Renewables Program.
The vast majority of photovoltaic, or PV, system installation growth is occurring on Long Island, placing it in the #1 spot of New York State regions in both megawatts installed and projects installed.
Photo Courtesy of Peter Goodman