October 2008
14 posts
Plant Your Park Returns for Campus Sustainability...
Temple University is joining National Sustainable Campus Day through hosting an Eco-Village at the Main Campus Bell Tower location, central to the flow of students on campus between classes. There will be an anticipated 25,000 plus visitors due to the current number of students on campus who cross the Bell Tower zone.
The students of Environmental Policy Studies are reinstalling the Sustainable...
Farmers Markets and Community Gardens in...
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September 2008
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ITSpace Blog Post on Parking Day →
Michele Masucci and Caroline Guigar commented on the Sustainable Disobedience Park event. Their discussion centers on the geographic implications of using web 2.0 to organize environmental awareness campaigns.
Peter Chomko has added his comments. It is posted as an update here.
Contents of the Path
The path in our park was created with chalk, stones, and short phrases that represent actions visitors could take. We asked visitors to fill in the path by placing a stone next to the phrases that best captured their thoughts about actions they could take to improve their local environments. Here are the choices they had.
Eat Local Foods
Buying from local farmers keeps money in the local...
Our Visitors - In Categories
Drive by visitors - hundreds, maybe thousands: We were on one of Philly’s busiest north-south arteries for 8 hours. There are four lanes of non-stop traffic passing by. It is hard to say just how many visitors actually took in the meaning of our exhibit, but lots of folks acknowledged us while passing by. It may well be that some figured it out after watching the evening news later on.
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Total Damages
$4.00 Meter for Parking Space
$1.50 Plastic Pots for plants
$3.10 Pebbles
$8.25 Train Ticket
$14.25 Gasoline (at 95 total miles driven by the class to prep the event, average of 25 miles to the gallon, and $3.75 per gallon for fuel)
$3.75 Recycled Paper
$.25 Sidewalk Chalk
$47.00 Donuts and Coffee (most important for the early risers)
$52.00 Lost wages (opportunity costs)
Total Damages:...
“You guys should take over one of the empty lots on 15th Street and make it a...”
– Neighborhood resident
“This reminds me of Berkeley!”
– Park visitor
We checked and sure enough, there was a space in Berkeley, CA. Check it the Flickr photo steam here.
Special Thanks to Facilities Management at TU
We wish to extend a special thanks to Temple University’s Facilities Management Recycling team for their assistance with the organizing of our event for Park(ing) Day. We were provided with a recycling set up and hand outs for our event. For more information on recylcing at Temple University, click here. Read more about campus recycling initiatives that are part of the campus wide...
Sustainability at Temple University
Temple University recently established an Sustainability Task Force that aims to connect the entire Temple community and its functions with a coherent approach for greening the campus. We were invited to recreate the Sustainable Disobedience Park for Temple University’s Campus Sustainability Day event planned for October 22, 2008.
Stay tuned for more!
National Park(ing) Day Photos are on Flickr
The Sustainable Disobedience Park has contributed photos to the Flickr stream for the nation wide Park(ing) Day event. You can see the entire stream here. Temple’s park is featured on pages 9 and 10 of the Flickr photo stream. The ITSRG Flickr stream is here.
CBS 3 Used Footage of Our Space for their Evening... →
There is a short piece embedded within the evening update related to Park(ing) Day. The film that goes with that storyline is from our space on North Broad Street. Check it out!
“I am from Paris. We celebrate parks all over the country once a year.”
– Temple University student
“I am from Rwanda; Our whole country is like a park. This is great!”
– Temple University student
“It would be great to have places to buy foods that are grown locally around...”
– Park visitor
“Can you leave the park where it is for the next two years? It’s beautiful!...”
– Resident of North Philadelphia
“Are these plants for sale?”
– Dozens of park visitors throughout the day
“I am still trying to figure out how to write a ticket for this thing. I think I...”
– PPA Officer
WHYY Podcast and Blog Posts on Today's Event
WHYY featured Park(ing) Day in Philadelphia today in local news broadcast updates. The podcast and web story for Philadelphia’s city wide event are found here.
Its Your City blog featured Temple University’s ITSRG and Environmental Policy Studies students Sustainable disobedience park here.
The Sixth Square blog posted a follow up feature on Park(ing) Day in Philadelphia and noted...
