Document storage
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23 Bushwick Avenue
Lived as temporary house guest; served as personal assistant to Geraldine Miller with a focus on domestic responsibilities; co-designed a landscaped circular Mother Garden with paths and borders using on-site bricks, rocks and wood; established compost piles; enhanced soil restoration with extensive addition of leaf mold from the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens; designed a community biodiversity initiative; monitored home improvements; created flower beds around street trees.
information-habitat.net/projects/23-bush.htm
biodiversity,
document storage,
habitat & human settlements,
sustainable home economics,
urban gardening,
women
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Brooklyn, NY
2001.04-2001.07
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26 Bushwick Avenue
The name Casa Color captures the theme of the small two-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn's Williamsburg-Greenpoint district, occupied by Information Habitat, its founder, and his newly-wed wife - an exceptional artist, film and video maker - and where major development of the Light and Colour Cubes took place.
information-habitat.net/projects/26-bush.htm
art,
document storage,
energy,
habitat & human settlements,
law and the courts,
light and colour,
sustainable home economics
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Brooklyn, NY
1998.06-2001.04
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333 East 45th Street
For three years, 333 East 45th Street, New York, NY served as the home for Information Habitat, its small Local Area Network and its founder. Housed in the closest apartment building to the Delegates Entrance of the United Nations, 333 East 45th provided extremely convenient access to United Nations headquarters, and to nearby office buildings of the UN Secretariat and UN specialized agencies, making it easy to print and reproduce documents at very short notice and to make use of Information Habitat's equipment in UN HQ and UN offices as needed.
information-habitat.net/projects/333e45.htm
diet,
document storage,
habitat & human settlements,
sustainable home economics
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New York, NY
1995.06-1998.05
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609 Montpelier Street
Undertook comprehensive rehabilitation of a two-storey frame house and garden; installation of wood stove, floor vents and a whole house fan, storm windows, wall and ceiling insulation and electrical wiring; converted a former driveway into an organic vegetable garden; became the hub of the Chesapeake Energy Alliance and - after the accident at Three Mile Island (TMI) - the home for a pro se intervention in the TMI Unit I Restart proceedings of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
information-habitat.net/projects/609-mont.htm
diet,
document storage,
energy,
home ownership,
law and the courts,
sustainable agriculture,
sustainable home economics,
urban agriculture,
urban gardening
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Baltimore, MD
1974.06-1984.12
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Baltimore City Jail Library
Established the first library at Baltimore City Jail; developed and implemented methodologies that became a model for prison law libraries in the State of Maryland; initiated education programs; designed and developed a simple cataloging system that was able to be managed directly by the inmate staff; trained and supervised staff of 10-12 inmate volunteers in a range of library procedures, including basic law library research in State and Federal criminal law; wrote successful proposal funding 7 full time and 5 part time positions under the Public Service Employment Program of the U.S. Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA); developed and managed budgets for the library; designed and implemented audiovisual productions; supervised inmate newsletter and inmate self-help programs.
information-habitat.net/projects/bcj-libr.htm
access to information,
art,
baltimore,
corrections,
document storage,
education,
information ecology,
law and the courts,
social development,
youth
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Baltimore, MD
1974.02-1981.09
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