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If Ice Could Talk: Environmental Personhood in Social Media
What if the environment could speak for itself? Would people listen? Some parody social media accounts are trying to find out.
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5 Questions: Richard Plunz on Crowdsourcing Urban Design with Twitter
A project from the Urban Design Lab combines mapping techniques with Twitter-usage data to gain a real-time understanding of how people occupy public space.
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Socially Speaking, the State of the Planet
If you wanted to get a sense of the State of the Planet, you didn’t need to be at the Columbia University conference on Oct. 11. You just needed to follow #SOP2012. Six hundred people gathered at the event to think about the future of sustainable development, while 476 people sent 1,300 tweets, making about…
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A Cup of Joe for #1000
IRI is offering a token of thanks for helping us reach a Twitter milestone. Care to help us get there?
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For the Birds
At the center of the CSSR’s mission is a desire to inspire discussion, be it through lectures, seminars, or interpersonal conversations. Therefore we talk, we write, we blog, and now we even tweet. No, we do not claim to have mastered the science of ornithology, but we have created a Twitter account, and hope that…
The first Earth Day in 1970 ignited a movement to stop polluting our planet. This Earth Month, join us in our commitment to realizing a just and sustainable future for our planet. Visit our Earth Day website for ideas, resources, and inspiration.
