55... 55 is the number of ecologic communities that used to live where we have our present day New York. Do you ever wonder what things used to look like? For example, if you walk down Main Street do you ever wonder what it looked like hundreds of years ago? Or even when you imagine a dinosaur walking where do you imagine it?
I watched a video about what New York looked like before we built all of our junk on it. Eric Sanderson is the director of a program called The Manhattan Project, he is looking at an older map of New York with some buildings and compares the too. Also he took the comparison to a very current map of NY and we had to make some dramatic changes. Like we took out hundreds of animals, trees, lakes, and rivers.
Eric did all of this because he would go see all these amazing places and come back to see New York and he just started wondering. That is how most great things started, right? I have learned many things from this great TED talk but the one thing that I will always think of when I go to big cities is what it looked like prior to when we messed it all up.
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