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Issue 3 — Power
Who controls the energy that runs a city controls the city itself. Issue 3 takes that question seriously. Ashley Dawson, a CUNY professor of postcolonial studies and author on energy democracy, imagines a Brooklyn waterfront where wind workers discover that public power has been quietly stolen — and shut it down. Amalia Cuadra, a landscape architect whose practice is rooted in the social dimensions of infrastructure, reports from inside a home where one last gas boiler has become a battlefield between private nostalgia and collective necessity. Mei-Lun Xue, an architect working at the edge of degrowth and design, sees Governors Island transformed into a training ground for the workers who will build the post-carbon city. Ellen Baum, an environmental health researcher, witnesses the midnight arrival of a nuclear reactor on the East River — and the protests waiting for it. These correspondents share a conviction that the energy transition is not a technical problem. It is a political one.
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Protests Greet First SMR Reactor
Drone Disaster Extreme Heat Danger Averted
Tesla’s Plot To Undermine NYC’s Public Power Revealed
Flood Victims Move To Higher Ground
Leilani Reyes pushes her cart through Home Depot, past stacks of raw and refurbished brick, spools of reclaimed electrical wire, and assorted rusting hardware in need of a wire brush….
“The torch is finally going back up,” remarks an approving Li Wei. She wears a blue windbreaker, which is fluttering along with her black hair as the electric ferry glides…
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Remediated Site of Former Gas Production
Local Politicians, activists, and NYPA representatives announced today that New York City plans to build the Museum of the Pipeline (MOP) in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The museum will sit amid the…
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Protests Greet First SMR Reactor
Anticipating protests, the New York Power Authority chose a cold November night—two hours past midnight to be exact, to move the giant barges carrying three new SMR reactors down the…
Drone Disaster Extreme Heat Danger Averted
Colorful feathers bounced to the rhythms of Reggaeton, Soca, dancehall, and Neotrop, as the revelers made their way down Eastern Parkway. Jerk chicken smoke was heavy in the air, and…
Tesla’s Plot To Undermine NYC’s Public Power Revealed
Thousands walked away from the Brooklyn Marine Terminal Wind Farm today, abandoning work on the enormous turbines and blades, and pouring into the streets. Joined by hundreds of thousands of…
Flood Victims Move To Higher Ground
On the evening of Wednesday, September 1, 2021, Hongsheng Leng was napping as the water entered his basement apartment. At 82, his energy was diminished from years of taking the…
Brandon Carbonari stands next to a huge and gleaming natural gas boiler—one of the last in New York City. Carbonari was born in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and he’s reminiscing about…
