UrbanThoreau Critiques: from Street to World and Back Again
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Paving As Disease Vector: Road Salt in Drinking Water –> Heart Disease
More paving leads to more winter road salt application, leading to more salt in our waterways and drinking water. The prognosis for our health is not good.
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Pick Up an Isthmus! Then read more about Jevons Paradox here….
Moving toward a resilient, sustainable, green world will require a thoroughgoing ethic of conservation; emphasis on ethic.
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Latest Edgewater Fun
Hey Mike, Check out these two links. The video from Beverly Hills is amazing! Maybe posting these on your Blog? Not sure if you have seen www.edgewaterproject.com. Scary moment of the day… What is up with the weird way the Fontana store is closing, and no info on the plan for the building? The old…
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Ho-Chunk to buy Union Corners?
It is just a rumor, but my source is in the know with regard to all things real estate, commercial & residential. This has the potential to be a Very Good Thing. Note that I said potential. And no, it doesn’t necessarily mean casino, so calm down. Another aspect of the rumor is that there…
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Sermon on the Baltic
Amen.
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On Zombies
Zombie politics defined.
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Jesus Chills with the Moneychangers
Jesus H. Obama goes all out for Big Pharma & Big Daddy Insurance. Liberals snooze.
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Edgewater: Mayor Pave v. Historic Neighborhoods
Mayor Pave aims to gut historic preservation law.
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Detroit Throws in the Towel
Detroit, as a city is now untenable. One proposal: back to the land! Urban farming on a massive scale. It’s over. The city build by the deathmobile, killed by the deathmobile.
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Mayor Pave Drives Off A Budgetary Cliff
Mayor Pave just drove us off a budgetary cliff.
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