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First Aired - 12/02/2009 08:00PM
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This week is all about trash on Burning Down The House. Curtis B. Wayne and Jacob Alspector discuss garbage as a design theme & The Cascadia Building Challenge.
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Garbagology (13:38)
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Curtis B. Wayne, architecture, Jacob Alspector, Toby Cumberbatch, garbagology, Cooper Union, recycling, reprocessing, spliting open clear water bottles, ironing the pieces to make polyethylene sheets, butchering, Frank Lloyd Wright, catalogs, Woodstock revivalism, Whole Earth Catalog, there is a new one, wind turbine, self sustaining farm, Wisconsin,Garbage As a Design Theme: Visual Victims Unit (23:57)
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East Williamsburg Industrial Park, Roberta's, Tekserve, John Nouvel, shanty towns, composed of garbage, entirely recycled, high rise glass building of many picture frames, firmitas, delight, structural integrity, usefulness, far west side of Manhattan, industrial zone, high rise loft building, Calvin Klein, Martha Stewart, The High Line, The Shutter Building, The Nouvel Building, China, Dubai, nobody is going to Dubai to vacation during this recession, indoor skiing, contrast between artificial branding and experimental recycling, gasoline, he notion of being happier with less, re purposed and disposed automobile parts, Soviet Suprematist Poster Work, Soviet Suprematist architecture, perpetual avant garde, modernism, the commercial world has caught up to that, branding and commodification of architecture, Metallica, Led Zeppelin, venustas, utilitas,Cascadia Building Challenge (25:49)
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meditation, LEED, holistic, synergistic, sewage, self referential buildings, privatization of landscape, back to the age of robber barons, for profit real estate development, branding, Peter Cooper, Zaha Hadid, BMW, green washing, design washing, Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Cooper Union, The Chrysler Building, The Omega Institute, new age experiences, yoga retreats, BNIM Architects, Berkebile Nelson Immenschuh McDowell Architects, renewable energy technology, lightweight materials, wood products, food waste and human waste is processed in the building, black water, treatment systems, New York sewer system, gray water, AIA, IPE documents, consensus documents,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 11/30/2009 12:00PM
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Judith Weis returns to The Naturalist to continue her discussion on salt marshes. This week she touches on history, pollution, species invasion and restoration of the marshes.
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The Physical Alteration Of Salt Marches (13:06)
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Bernie Wides, The Naturalist, salt marshes, Salt Marshes: A Natural And Unnatural History, interactions between people and salt marshes, Judith is a professor of marine biology at Rutgers, people used to view salt marshes as useless, we have lost many acres of salt marshes over the years which have become towns, Jamaica Bay, a house on stilts, salt marsh with straight channel creeks is not normal, normal creeks curve, mosquito, they breed on the marsh surface in pools of water, barricade, killifish, Jones Beach, bird sanctuary, Vanderbilt Museum, farming, salt hay, cowlicks, Dutch, Manhattan, physical alterations, Tekserve, Judith Weis,Pollution In Salt Marshes (8:00)
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agricultural chemicals, pesticides, mosquito control, these chemicals kill a lot of other things, they also affect development, industrial chemicals, Newark Bay, industry polluting water, blue fish, striped bass, they end up with the greatest concentration of these chemicals in their bodies, PCBs, blue crabs are banned in Northern New Jersey because of contamination, blue crabs, Polychlorinated biphenyl, excess nutrients, sewage, treatment plants, fertilizers, human waste, algae bloom, the algae die and sink to the bottom to decay, the process of decaying uses up oxygen, dead zones, chemical pollution,Invasive Species & Salt Marsh Restoration (16:18)
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invasive species, they are not native to an area and cause trouble, phragmites, a new variety has been causing trouble, native species is a part of the high marsh, spartina, China, California, crabs, mussels, green crab, arrived a couple of hundred years ago, Maine, clams, restoration, No Net Loss of Wetlands, sea level rise, mars can migrate inland without roads and towns, restoration has a long way to go before it becomes a real science, trial and error, remediation, cleaning up pollution, Hackensack Meadowlands, HMDC, garbage dump regulation, development and environmental protection, clean water act, there has been a huge difference in the past 30 years, New Jersey Meadowlands Commission, eco tours, kayaks, Lindhurst, boardwalks, nature tours, Hackensack River Keeper,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 09/08/2009 06:30PM
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On this week's installment of Why We Cook, Erica turns your ideas of breakfast on their heads. Forget what you think you know about the first meal of the day!
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The Big Breakfast Show! (11:05)
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become a friend of Why We Cook on Facebook, www.whywecook.com, new show website!, Kyoto Japan, traditional Kyoto style cuisine, tofu, breakfast: soft tofu in broth fish rice miso soup raw eggs, Kyoto: very serious food culture, stores that just sell pickles or miso flakes, high-nutrition breakfasts, serve your kids high-quality breakfasts before school, powerful movement to get real food back into schools,Gear Up For School with a Better Breakfast (8:49)
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breakfasts in Japan far superior to America, kids who eat breakfast perform better in school, oatmeal, blood sugar, continue eating protein throughout day, don't just eat a muffin for breakfast, avoid blood sugar spikes and crashes, Pho: Vietnamese noodle soup, soup perfect breakfast food, banh mi sandwich, good breakfast sandwiches, lower your sugar intake during breakfast, ban the frozen pancake breakfast, Appetite for China blog, nobody wants soup for breakfast,Scrap Your Pre-Conceived Ideas of Breakfast (9:36)
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call in!: 718-497-2128, become a friend of Why We Cook on Facebook, Erica's niece, highlights from Sophie's breakfasts, clam chowder, Italian wedding soup with raspberries, chicken cordon bleu, re-invent your interpretation of what breakfast should be, leftover pasta, whole wheat cous-cous, Chinese curry beef bun, salami and eggs, be unswayed by convention, pick foods you like for breakfasts don't adhere to pre-conceived ideas, Erica's breakfast faves: oatmeal mixed with miso and scallions and nori shreads, baked sweet potato with cottage cheese and black pepper, spinach and eggs, sauteed wild mushrooms and a runny poached egg, whole wheat english muffin with hard-boiled eggs, interesting out-there breakfast choices, Italians don't eat breakfast, espresso and cigarette the classic Italian breakfast, www.whywecook.com, www.chefsmartypants.com,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
