UrbanThoreau Critiques: from Street to World and Back Again
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Epic Fit to Print
Epic gets big NYT feature today. It’s just too bad Epic’s brilliant CEO couldn’t have found a way to integrate the company into the urban fabric. The paving of farmland and it’s car-necessary location negates all the groovy-green stuff going into that oh-so-pastoral office park. I know several long-time as well as newly-hired Epicureans, and…
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Pleasant’s Wrecking Ball
Pleasant & Co. wish to demolish the spirit of State Street.
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Nicole Foss: “The Great Recession, Energy Depletion, and Political Turmoil,” at Goodman TONIGHT
Nicole Foss will be speaking tonight at 7 at the Goodman Center (details below). She is quite a speaker. I went to see her when she was here back in 2010. Her thinking is amazing–bringing together economics, social relations, and the natural/physical world in one very all-encompassing view. She is very good at demonstrating–jargon-free–the physical/energy…
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And the Paving Goes On….
Just sent this to the Long Range Transportation Planning Committee: Dear Commissioners, I have reviewed in great detail Item 5. Informational Presentation on the Preliminary Design of the CTH M Roadway Corridor (Prairie Hill Road to Cross Country Road). How can any of these highway expansion options be acceptable in light of the budget squeeze caused by…
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Downtown Plan: Pave the Lakes! Drive a Stake through Miffland!
Madison’s Downtown Plan seeks to kill everything that makes Madison not Rockford: Kill Miffland, Pave the Lakes.
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Trains, Planes & Automobiles: Bikes Emerge Victorious in Carmageddon
Bikes win LA’s Carmageddon.
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Difficult Persons
Difficult people rock. And roll.
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48th Race: Selkowe’s Two Degrees to Koch Ca$h
Vicky Selkowe cozies up to the right.
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Sigourney Weavers to Serenade Walkerville, TONIGHT, 6PM
Sigourney Weavers Play, Walkerville. Tonight, 14 June, 2011, 6PM
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Irresponsible Medicine
Are they insane? Have our elected leaders never heard of evidence-based medicine? What kills me is that our congresswoman, Tammy Baldwin, makes universal health care her signature issue, but we never, ever hear her resolving to create a medical system that emphasizes health. It is always about more medicine at all costs. Let’s face it…
Got any book recommendations?