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Completed in 2014 Client: US Environmental Protection Agency, EPA 4:32 minutes

Aurora Pocket Neighborhood

Pocket Neighborhoods are similar to co-housing and small lot cottage development, except smaller in scale and cooperatively owned. which allows for uncomplicated resident management and makes Pocket Neighborhoods easier to place on small urban lots within existing established neighborhoods.

Through The Water

Rowing on Cayuga Lake. The 1982 Cornell crews in action, and the history of rowing at Cornell.

Pythium Suppression with Vermicompost

he microbes found in vermicompost can help protect plants from disease. Using line animation and video microscopy, we describe how the plant pathogen, pythium aphanidermatum is unable to infect a germinating cucumber seed planted in a potting mix containing vermicompost.

Breast Cancer and the Estrogen Connection: Plastics

Certain types of plastics can leach estrogen mimicking chemicals into beverage bottles and food containers. Scientists are concerned that even at low levels, these environmental estrogens may work together with the body’s own estrogen to increase the risk of breast cancer.