“Corpus: Bodies of Data” an exhibition by Data Through Design (@dataxdesign ) with NYC Open Data is opening this Friday, March 21 at BRIC (@bricbrooklyn ).
Come check my piece exploring the land parcels that fall under NYC ownership and jurisdiction well beyond the five boroughs of the city. These upstate parcels in the Croton, Catskills, and Delaware watersheds make up nearly the same land mass as the city itself, supplying the city with its water. Exploring and explaining these bodies of water, the lands that surround them, and the populations they support is critical for these watersheds’ future environmental, political, and sociological success.
BRIC House Gallery, 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn
On view: March 22 - April 6, 12-7 pm daily
Opening Reception: March 21, 6:30-8:30 pm
New Yorkers! Putting Green NYC is open for the summer Mon-Fri 3-8pm and Sat/Sun 10am-9pm on the Williamsburg, BK waterfront, just north of Domino Park. Come check out the hole I designed and built with @billionoyster and Chris Edmonds telling the historical and future story of oysters in New York Harbor.
The Putting Green mini golf course showcases problems and solutions for some of the most pressing climate change issues facing the planet. Make sure to check Billion Oyster Project and their ongoing work as we hope this hole continues to engage New Yorkers in the task of restoring one billion oysters to the harbor. With everyone’s support, New York Harbor will once again be the center of a rich, diverse, and abundant estuary serving as a fish nursery for the Western North Atlantic. As climate change brings rising sea levels and intensifying storms, the oysters will also be an essential part of a resilient city on the water’s edge.
The long-term drought in the Colorado River Basin continues, and it’s not just Lake Powell and Lake Mead.
Water managers are taking unprecedented actions of holding and releasing water to maintain critical water supplies and power-generating levels that support roughly 40 million people in the lower Colorado River Basin. The last time Lake Powell reached full capacity was in 1999, and has been in a steady decline ever since. Currently, Lake Powell is at its lowest levels since 1967 when the reservoir first began to fill.
Source: www.usbr.gov
Police officers killed 7,666 people (represented by each small square) in the U.S. between 2013 - 2019. Of these cases, 7,567 (98.7%) resulted in no charges (black squares), 74 (1%) resulted in charge but no conviction (yellow squares), and 25 (0.3%) resulted in a conviction (red squares). Source: mappingpoliceviolence.org #blackout #blackouttuesday
For the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, I wanted to share some images I’ve been working on of ephemeral streams across the U.S. These streams flow only after rainfall, temporarily feeding into the larger water networks we are more familiar with. After an environmental rollback by the Trump Administration, as of June, all of these streams are no longer federally regulated under the Clean Water Act. Any pollutant deposited into these areas will eventually flow back into the larger water network, undermining the protections we have placed on these networks. It seems particularly appropriate to take a look at all the environmental rollbacks (https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/regulatory-rollback-tracker/) this administration has instituted on a day like today, and how ephemeral they may be if we do not alter course in November.
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#earthweeknyc #earthday2020 #greennewdeal @sunrisemvmtnyc@sunrisemvmt@earthdaynewyork
Laser cut MDF with projection mapping color ~ The yield curve is the difference between interest rates of short-term (1 month) United States government treasury bonds, and long-term bonds (up to 30 years). Typically, when an economy is in good health, the rate on the longer-term bonds will be higher than short-term ones. However, as these two figures draw closer, the curve flattens, or an even worst case scenario, become inverted (i.e. the short-term rates are higher than the long-term rates). Every recession of the past 60 years has been preceded by an inverted yield curve. Many of these recessions are observed here, including the Savings and Loan Crisis in the early 1990s, the burst of the “dot-com bubble” in 2001, and the Great Recession from 2008 to 2009.
Recently, flattening trends have been observed in the yield curve, causing some to wonder if the economic boom being currently observed may be threatened in the coming months or years. An important caveat to the predictive power of the yield curve is that it can’t predict precisely when a recession will begin. In the past, the recession has come in as little as six months, or as long as two years after the inversion. 📸 @wisdomwanted .
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#dataart #datavisualization
