This pinterest board includes a round up of news placement such as:

• audio from Moral Courage director Irshad Manji on her book Allah Liberty & Love.
• news clip about NYU Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management graduate research assistant Chris Whong’s “Seetra.in App Tracks NYC Subways In Real Time.”
• a new monthly column about our new NYU Wagner Innovations Lab, the first being “Incorporating Innovation into Local Government” by Neil Kleiman, NYU Wagner special advisor to the dean, via Governing.com

Tumblr launches highlighted posts feature.

newsflick: And this is how it will translate on the iPhone app. Lacks some glow I would say. And it yes it seems you can do only one a day.

startsomegood: In our “This Week in Social Entrepreneurship” series, each Friday we will feature the top stories in Social Entrepreneurship for the week that we find to be noteworthy, novel, and thought-provoking. What are your favorite stories this week in Social Entrepreneurship? Let’s start a discussion!

• Are you leading positive change in your community? Are you between the ages of 18 and 29 and the founder or leader of a social change project or organization? The

sunfoundation:Revealing the Energy Consumption of Each Building in New York

The remarkably detailed map [columbia.edu] developed by the Modi Research Group of the Earth Institute at Columbia University reveals the total annual building energy consumption of New York, at both the block and ‘taxlot’ level (which is nearly at building level).

coursekit: This is a parking garage. Really. via Fast Co. Design

Copenhagen - the City of Cyclists

springwise:

In Copenhagen, gas stations are equipped for bicycle care

There’s a reason Copenhagen has come to be known as the “City of Cyclists”, and it’s the same reason we’ve seen so many bicycle-related innovations originate from there over the years. Aiming to please the legions of urbanites who use bicycles rather than cars to get around the city, Norwegian gas company Statoil has equipped five of its Copenhagen stations with Cykelpleje centers dedicated to bicycle maintenance and repair. READ MORE…

nycedc:

On Sunday, Mayor Bloomberg said the following during his weekly radio address on 1010 WINS News Radio:

To put more New Yorkers to work and to keep our economic recovery on track, we’re investing in growing industries that have a bright future in our city - like food manufacturing. Even…

(via nycdigital)

nycedc:

WNYC’s blog summed up our Applied Sciences NYC initiative, for which entries were due earlier today:

The deadline for universities to submit their bids to open a new engineering school in the city with the help of the Bloomberg administration is today.

Seth Pinsky, the president of the city’s Economic Development Corporation, described the project this way: “We really believe this is what we like to describe as an Erie Canal moment, a time where we are faced with the ability to make an investment and that investment can lock in a competitive advantage for years to come, just like the Erie Canal did in the 1820s and 30s.”

Listen to the audio above, view the full article on WNYC, and find out more about Applied Sciences NYC on NYCEDC’s website.