In her book Emergent Strategy, adrienne maree brown writes, “I would call our work to change the world ‘science fictional behavior’ — being concerned with the way our actions and beliefs now, today, will shape the future, tomorrow, the next…
This article originally appeared in my newsletter. Subscribe here. The origin story of Maria Sola Green Space, the community garden a few blocks from me, varies each time someone tells it. Oral history lives in flux. Some of us say…
Note: This piece originally appeared in my newsletter. One of my first weeks in the garden last year, I walked in and saw a group of half a dozen older gentlemen sitting around the long table. From a distance, I noted…
I’m not an urban planner. I didn’t go to school for it and I don’t plan to. Yet, I’ve become fascinated with how our built environment impacts our lives. And that’s not something I think anybody needs a degree to…
This article contains MAJOR SPOILERS for Suzanne Collins’s new book, Sunrise on the Reaping. Sunrise on the Reaping takes us back 24 years before the events of the first Hunger Games book, to Haymitch Abernathy’s games. I ripped through it…
Note: This piece originally appeared in my newsletter. I had an innocent newsletter planned about recent work in the community gardens. But in light of the regime ripping thousands of immigrants from their families, I want to defend those in…
I didn’t intend to take a Citi Bike 8+ miles from the Bronx to Brooklyn, but last night, I did. I’ve long been convinced biking is the best way to get around New York. But I rarely bike for trips…