Annette Koh

Public space, the right to the city, and civic engagement. How can we improve equity and access through participatory urbanism? Ph.D. student in Urban & Regional Planning at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Former resident of Seoul & San Francisco.
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UH Manoa Graduate Student Organization: GSO New Student Orientation Schedule →

Ack. Summer is practically over.

gsonews:

Aloha all incoming graduate students! Please see the attached schedule for the 2012 GSO New Student Orientation. It be on August 16th, at 8:30 at Spalding Hall:

8:30 - Coffee & Pastries
9:00 - (Spalding Auditorium) Plenary session with Chancellor Apple and
Grad Division Associate Dean Ken…

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Ka Leo, the UH student paper: In the 2010-2011 fiscal year, $1,665 of every student’s tuition was spent on utility bills for the UH Mānoa campus. This number is projected to be $2,265 per student for the 2011-2012 fiscal year. That’s a lot of my tuition getting spent to keep screensavers running all weekend cuz someone couldn’t be bothered to turn her computer or even her monitor off. For an instructive example of mapping Manhattan’s electricity usage… transsolar What´s my buildings electricity usage There is something about the saying that we can only improve things that we can measure. Unfortunately most of the time we do not know about our energy consumption. Not only that we get only an estimate every year but we even do not know how we compare with our neighbors or fellow citizens in other districts.  This interactive map is an interesting approach in order to display electricity usage by block in New York. Unfortunately it only display the usage per square feet of land plot and not per gross floor area or inhabitant. So it does not tell us anything about the efficiency of buildings since some of the once with the highest land plot energy consumption can have more then 100 floors. The map was developed as part of a NSF IGERT funded research project in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University. Here you can read more about how the data was sourced and used: http://modi.mech.columbia.edu/nycenergy/about.html

Ka Leo, the UH student paper:

In the 2010-2011 fiscal year, $1,665 of every student’s tuition was spent on utility bills for the UH Mānoa campus. This number is projected to be $2,265 per student for the 2011-2012 fiscal year.

That’s a lot of my tuition getting spent to keep screensavers running all weekend cuz someone couldn’t be bothered to turn her computer or even her monitor off. For an instructive example of mapping Manhattan’s electricity usage…

transsolar

What´s my buildings electricity usage

There is something about the saying that we can only improve things that we can measure. Unfortunately most of the time we do not know about our energy consumption. Not only that we get only an estimate every year but we even do not know how we compare with our neighbors or fellow citizens in other districts. 

This interactive map is an interesting approach in order to display electricity usage by block in New York. Unfortunately it only display the usage per square feet of land plot and not per gross floor area or inhabitant. So it does not tell us anything about the efficiency of buildings since some of the once with the highest land plot energy consumption can have more then 100 floors.

The map was developed as part of a NSF IGERT funded research project in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University.

Here you can read more about how the data was sourced and used:

http://modi.mech.columbia.edu/nycenergy/about.html

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