Street Creeks is a low-impact, cost-effective hybrid green-gray infrastructure strategy developed to minimize the burden of urban storm water on existing combined sewer systems by conveying large volumes of water along surface channels “carved” out of existing rights-of-way, thereby reducing or preventing CSO (combined sewage overflow) events. Street Creeks can also clean the most polluted “first flush” of surface runoff via integrated greenstreets and bioswales. Through these low-impact modifications to existing roadways and associated infrastructure, Street Creeks provides higher removal rates than other GI strategies, with less physical intrusions and lower cost than gray infrastructure.
Street Creeks is a low-impact, cost-effective hybrid green-gray infrastructure strategy developed to minimize the burden of urban storm water on existing combined sewer systems by conveying large volumes of water along surface channels “carved” out of existing rights-of-way, thereby reducing or preventing CSO (combined sewage overflow) events. Street Creeks can also clean the most polluted “first flush” of surface runoff via integrated greenstreets and bioswales. Through these low-impact modifications to existing roadways and associated infrastructure, Street Creeks provides higher removal rates than other GI strategies, with less physical intrusions and lower cost than gray infrastructure.
For the sake of sustainability, we normally hope that our furniture will last a long time in an effort to conserve resources and energy.
Is this philosophy is truly the correct path to eco-enlightenment?
The Auto-Cannibalistic Table, which is intended to be a temporary object, embraces sustainability in a less conventional way. The table was constructed with paper egg cartons and wheatpaste glue, which is made from flour and water, and then planted with herbs. The herbs can be picked as they grow, creating a place where food can both be eaten as well as grown–over time, however, the plants are intended to “eat away” at the table. In nature, resources are constantly recycling and in flux–decomposing and then forming again. Man-made objects of the past and present tend to counter this effect. Instead of static existence, the Auto-Cannibalistic Table embraces the fact that nature tends to re-use matter and energy in an ever-evolving process.
The table was a part of the InDisposed exhibition at Studio-X in New York City curated by Jen Renzi and Dan Rubinstein.
