Albany MycoWorks

10/05/2025

Five years and seven months later, I revisited that moment in a long-form article examining how businesses like Stop & Shop successfully implemented Governor Cuomo’s Plastic Bag Ban, which took effect on March 1, 2020. 👉 Read the full piece here:

On March 1, 2020, New Yorkers walked into grocery stores and saw a quiet revolution at the checkout counter: no more free plastic bags. Five years and seven months later, as New York Climate Week 2025 (Sept 21–28) unfolds, that moment remains one of the state’s boldest ecological legacies under ...

08/25/2025

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/great-green-race-how-us-democrats-talked-climate-change-casseus-bla0c

Once upon a recent time, the United States was getting ready to choose a new president. Before the big election, the Democratic Party held primaries, which are like tryouts where many people, more than twenty!, ask voters to pick who should lead the team.

08/25/2025

Central Warehouse — 1927 Cost vs. 2025 Replacement Cost
Original construction cost (1927): approximately $2.2–$3.0 million for ~400,000 sq ft across 11 stories with reinforced-concrete structure. Below shows 2025 equivalents using two approaches:
• CPI (general consumer prices)
• ENR Construction Cost Index (materials & labor for building)

• CPI-based estimate (2025): $41.8–$57.0 million
• ENR-based estimate (2025): $146.6–$200.0 million

Basis Low (Million $) High (Million $)
CPI (Consumer Prices) 41.8 57.0
ENR (Construction Index) 146.6 200.0
Note: CPI captures general inflation and tends to understate construction cost escalation. ENR’s index reflects labor and materials typical of building work and better approximates the true cost to recreate a heavy reinforced-concrete structure like the Central Warehouse in 2025.

08/25/2025

When nations gathered in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 to launch the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, they pledged to avoid “dangerous anthropogenic interference” with the climate system. The vision was clear: build a common architecture to steer the world away from escalating harm.

08/24/2025

The State of New York proudly claims to be the leader in sustainability and climate-change mitigation. We spent about 4,400 metric tons of CO₂ to build the warehouse. Demolishing it and replacing it with new apartments or condos would add roughly 13,000 more metric tons of CO₂ to the atmosphere, equivalent to putting 2,826 cars on the road for a full year. The structure is solid: it has 4-foot-diameter concrete columns and 11-foot ceilings per floor. According to Len Tantillo of the Capital Waterway Group, who, with a team of civil engineers, city planners, and architects, studied the building, the structural skeleton is strong enough to support an additional floor.
We say we need to revitalize. We claim to champion sustainability and to fight climate change. There is only one conclusion to these statements: either we have been dishonest, or we have been misled.

08/24/2025

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fossil-fuels-wealth-climate-dilemma-odelin-casseus-0sl3c

U.S.

08/22/2025

What could 400,000 ft² become?
🌱 Mushroom Farm (coffee grounds → fresh food) 🤖 Makers’ Castle (robots, wood, art) 🔬 Science Playground (wind·water·sun labs) 🎶 Music + Market Hall (food, dance, fairs) 📱 iPhone Assembly 🔋 Battery Production 🏭 Advanced Manufacturing 🚛 Logistics Hub
Here’s an illustrative way to picture 400,000 square feet — a single “bar” sliced into uses. You can remix it any way your community prefers.

08/22/2025

https://youtu.be/fpSR5NAaZg0

A conceptual proposal for the implementation of an urban canal through downtown Albany, the capital city of New York State. A project of The Albany Waterway ...

08/22/2025

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/big-concrete-bank-how-albanys-central-warehouse-saves-odelin-casseus-8hckc

Once upon a time in Albany, there was a gentle giant called the Central Warehouse. People thought it was only old.