Category: Society
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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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Flat Flyover Country…INDEED! And How Bicycling Adds Juice to Any Economy
Flyover country ain’t so flat after all. And those wacky cyclist characters provide the turbo charge to any economic engine.
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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.
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It’s Official: NYT declares Obama a Protégé of Bush
Jesus H. Obama continues George W. Bush’s torture, rendition and war policies. Herbert rails on this in NYT today.
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Guardian UK: Fair Weather Cyclists v. Bike Ragers
This article cracked me up. Apparently even the stiff-upper-lipped Brits get plenty irritated with clueless fair weather cyclists wandering all over the bike paths. Heh! Next up: Using one’s rights, not the sidewalk.
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Peak Oil and Places that Suck
Places that suck need massive inputs of concentrated energy to function. Right now, that concentrated form of energy tends to be oil. Oil feeds our deathmobiles which are the only means of access to places that suck. But the ride is getting rougher in those paved paradises, with higher prices here & yet higher prices…
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Blood/Gas Hybrid
Your gas tank is full of blood. Yes, even Toyota Pious gas tanks.
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Pedaling Revolution Goes Into Third Press Run!!!!
The Oregonian reports that Pedaling Revolution has gone viral in a pandemic sort of way across the bike world.