OCC Center Sunday Joshua helped the Lazers outlast a feisty SUNY ESF squad Thursday night. The game was closer than the 79-53 final score indicates. Joshua finished with 15 points, 12 rebounds and eight blocked shots. Jakhi Lucas led the squad with 25 points.
In the clip above, SUNY ESF grad and Philly designer Nate Hommel gives good advice about experimentation that is also essential to entrepreneurship. He visited for the Visioning Voices Community Speaker Series and Workshop.
Nate Hommel, urban designer
Nate Hommel says that streets are public spaces. During a workshop and didactic session at Assumption Church, the Director of planning and design for University City District (UCD) told residents, students, and developers to hack, tinker, analyze and design to help transform spaces and help people love where they live. When you love where you live, he said, you start caring a lot more about things that go on and you become more involved.
Hommel is pictured at a the Freedom Garden on N. Townsend, which is a few stone throw away from where he was born (St. Joseph’s Hospital).
He is a graduate of SUNY ESF and has worked for UCD since 2012.
SUNY-ESF Professor Matthew Potteiger talked about the some of the historical roots of food injustice during a lecture he called “Framing & Visualizing Food Systems.”
Later Potteiger teamed with Dr. Carolin Mees to talk about Using Buildings to Support Food Production and Community Engagement at the Syracuse Food Justice Symposium.
Paul Otteson, a staffer from SUNY ESF, attended the first Earth Day in 1970 (Philadelphia). He talked to the crowd at Thornden Park who gathered for Syracuse’s Earthfest.
Canoe Tour of Onondaga Creek (near Dorwin Ave)
ESF students Nick Watkins, Brendan Beeke and Thaddeus Holland set up in a metered parking space along the Connective Corridor on East Genesee Street today.
Cities around the world today celebrated Park(ing) Day, an event to advocate for more green spaces in urban areas.
Several neighborhoods in downtown Syracuse participated, including the Midtown section (pictured above).
The event was started in San Francisco in 2005.
Shelly Griffin: Cent$ + Sense-Ability
A statistic was cited during the recent Cent$ + Sense-Ability Fashion Show at The Newhouse School of Public Communications last week that the average American discards about 68 lbs of clothing and textiles each year.
In an effort to show that fashion too can ride the current wave of sustainability, this year’s annual fashion show for the Fashion Communication Milestone featured recycled materials, clothing, and material found in the trash. A host of material was donated by the Rescue Mission. The student designs promoted “Fashion in a Recession.”
A few of the evenings highlights included: hairstyles featuring soda cans as well as, Tina Fey impersonator and Newhouse Program Coordinator Shelly Griffin (pictured above).
Michele Palotta, Junior at Syracuse University