Climate Clock and Crazy Bubbles in New York City

09/24/2020

The big Union Square clock, over the years, has counted the hours and minutes for all New Yorkers and visitors in Manhattan, but since last Tuesday, this popular clock has started a new countdown.

Two artists and climate activists Gan Golan and Andrew Boyd have re-programmed it as a Climate Clock that marks the time left for us to act and save our planet before we reach an irreversible turning point called "the point of no return."



How much is left to act? The countdown started on Tuesday, September, 22nd 2020, marking -- 7 years, 100 days, 17 hours, 29 minutes, and 22 seconds. And the clock keeps ticking. This is the photo I took yesterday (9/23).

The climate clock serves as a public reminder in the city considered the media and cultural capital of the world. The New York Climate Clock in Union Square will run until September 27, but you can create the clock for your home or office: CLIMATECLOCK.

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What happens in the Upper West Side instead?

While New York restaurants may soon begin serving indoors, restaurateurs are doing everything they can to extend outdoor service. If the cold season is not here yet, it won't be long before the cold and the rain arrivein NYC. Well, look what the Café du Soleil has come up in the Upper West Side: space bubbles!




If you were in New York City last winter, maybe, you remember these bubble-looking structures on rooftops. The Restaurant is now using 18 dome-shaped igloos that can accommodate 2 to 6 people. For sure they will help for the next few months, let's see who else will use the Space Bubbles!