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From City Streets to Statewide Sustainability: Assessing the Impact of New York City's Residential Curbside Composting Program on Greenhouse Gas Emissions & Potential for Statewide Extension
Elizabeth S. Taber (2024-05)
New York City's residential curbside composting program, initially piloted in Queens, is set to expand citywide. The initiative attempts to address the significant methane emissions linked to landfilling food scraps by embracing alternative management methods such as composting and anaerobic digestion. This research assesses the potential impact of implementing a composting program modeled off of New York City’s program in each municipality in NYS. It first considers whether NYC’s curbside composting program has effectively reduced the greenhouse gas emissions associated with food waste through increasing the quantity of waste redirected from landfill disposal. Then, analysis of the city’s program is then used to consider the potential impact of the municipal food scrap recycling program on greenhouse gas emissions in the remainder of New York State. To evaluate the program's effect on greenhouse gas emissions, this study designs an evaluation methodology based on the availability of food scrap recycling facilities, emissions associated with transporting waste to recycling facilities, municipal population, and diversion rates. These measures provide insight into expansion and efficacy barriers in the area outside of NYC. Ultimately, this research seeks to determine if composting has the potential to become as integral to household habits and municipal policies as recycling has become.
Nuggets & Nibbles Fall 2025, Vol XLIII Number 4
NYS LTAP Center - Cornell Local Roads Program (NYS LTAP Center - Cornell Local Roads Program, 2025-12-01)
Fall 2025 Nuggets & Nibbles Quarterly Newsletter
Data from: Castles, Battlefields, and Continents: A Dataset of Maps from Literature
Bax, Axel; Mimno, David; Wilkens, Matthew (2025)
These files contain data supported results in Bax et al. Castles, Battlefields, and Continents: A Dataset of Maps from Literature. In Bax et al. we found: Maps are not common in novels. It is not obvious that they are necessary at all. Yet maps do appear in some novels. Why and to what ends? To answer these questions, scholars need a large collection of novels that contain maps. We develop a computational system to identify maps from page images and apply it to a large historical corpus of fiction. We deploy a three part workflow using an ensemble of three finetuned EfficientNet convolutional neural network (CNN) classifiers, Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP), and human annotation to identify 2,622 maps in over 32 million pages of fiction published 1800–1928. We find that 1) maps are rare, making up 0.008% of all pages (1.7% of novels contain at least one map) 2) “map novels” were most common at the turn of the 20th century, 3) maps mostly appear on endpapers or front matter, 4) only 43% of map novels contain references to maps in their library MARC records, 5) 25% of maps depict fictional settings, 6) 70% of maps represent areas at a regional or larger scale, and 7) map novels contain more spatial language than non-map novels.
Fast Radio Burst Community Newsletter - Volume 6, Issue 11
Nimmo, Kenzie; Chatterjee, Shami (2025-11-26)
Fast Radio Burst Community Newsletter - Volume 6, Issue 10
Nimmo, Kenzie; Chatterjee, Shami (2025-10-30)