Category: Perspectives on American Gluttony
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GDP: More Is Not More
Destroying the environment should not be a net gain to the GDP
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De-Growth for Prosperity
The ideas of Illich live on!
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Industrial Rote Labor Not So Great for the Intellect
How big unions & big industry colluded to keep the workforce as dumb as they could be.
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Silicon Valley’s Smart $ Finally Gets It Re: Energy Efficiency
The VCs of Silicon Valley finally embrace energy efficiency. But can they outwit Jevon’s Paradox?
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When Politicians Level With Us….
Jimmy Carter’s ‘Malaise’ speech wasn’t the downer Ronald Raygun & Co. portrayed it to be.
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The MotorLESS City
NYT article “Bike Among the Ruins,” a re-imagining of Detroit as the MotorLESS City.
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The Long Emergency is Nigh (and Big Boxes are Going DOWN!)
Big boxes dying across the country, little boxes thriving in places that appreciate the local & long-lived.
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James Hansen: The Saint of Our Age
This guy is amazing. I don’t know what the planned civil disobedience is, but I hope it is huge. Mountaintop removal is a barbaric act. [Update: I read in a tiny article safely tucked away on p. 7, that they got arrested for blocking the road to the mine. The arrestees included Hansen and Daryl…
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Highway Bloatitecture: A Cancer on the City Center
What do Brussels, Madison, Atlanta, and Little Rock have in common? Highway-scaped Bloatitecture in the middle of the city.