http://mindsinthegutter.org a call for submissions Fri, 30 Sep 2011 08:26:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://mindsinthegutter.org/we-design/ http://mindsinthegutter.org/we-design/#comments Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:39:37 +0000 admin http://mindsinthegutter.org/wordpress/?p=39 When complete, the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway will be a 14-mile route connecting neighbors and neighborhoods to four major parks and over a dozen local open spaces on Brooklyn’s historic waterfront. WE Design, together Regional Plan Association and Brooklyn Greenway Initiative, propose pairing the greenway with “treatment trains” that mimic natural hydrology, capturing and treating rainwater. The design focuses on the northernmost section of the BWG, along West Street in Greenpoint.

]]> http://mindsinthegutter.org/we-design/feed/ 0 http://mindsinthegutter.org/the-north-brooklyn-compost-project/ http://mindsinthegutter.org/the-north-brooklyn-compost-project/#comments Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:31:05 +0000 admin http://mindsinthegutter.org/wordpress/?p=34 The North Brooklyn Compost Project proposes a tree lawn retrofit that will allow stormwater to enter the lawn and infiltrate through a rain garden on N12th Street in Brooklyn.  Partners at the NYC Soil and Water Conservation District delineated the site’s subwatershed and estimated the garden would need to gulp down 5,000 gallons of stormwater during a 1-inch storm.

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