UrbanThoreau Critiques: from Street to World and Back Again
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Surprise! Surprise! Budgetary Surprise! (Not!)
As I predicted three years ago, Madison highway expansion binge is overwhelming city finances.
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Walker Planning Martial Law
Wisconsin National Guard activated to make plans for crushing civilian protests.
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Peripatetic Cyber-Peregrinations May 4 – 7, 2011
My random perusals….updated periodically. There are always alternatives to fossils! June 1 – 4 New Urbanism conference–Learn about how to make sprawl pretty! Ok, I’ll be nice. Maybe they have some good ideas. But over the years of watching development projects come through the city, I’ve come to the conclusion that for the most part,…
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Talk: The Urban Forest is Broken: Solutions for a Pending Crisis
Keeping our cities green with healthy trees; Peter MacDonagh presents.
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Peripatetic Cyber-Peregrinations
Miscellaneous readings of late: Free will does exist. Buses have history, too! Jack up the gas tax! For decades I’ve been pushing for radically higher gas taxes, at the pump, as well as carbon taxes & such. This little article earned me many enemies among good liberals*, and my public testimony against Mayor Pave’s dirty…
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Pave, Baby, Pave!
Madison: A city hardwiring itself for mandatory driving, mandatory energy gluttony, mandatory dirty water, mandatory flooding. Pave, Baby, PAVE!
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We’re # 24!
24th sootiest air in the country that is (<-story filed under “Going Green”!). That, after two terms of the green mayor and three (& a half) of the green county executive, add in a population which prides itself on it’s green cred….Who needs Republicans when legions of dutifully voting Plug-in Prius drivers can do the dirty…
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Clean Energy? Not So Much.
It seems that every couple of years another big time enviro of one stripe or another starts hawking some messianic fuel source or another. I’ve gotten into flame wars with “pragmatic progressive” policy wonks over bio-fuels (um, dear, the net gain over fossils? Zero. But I’ve got a machine for sale that runs off of…
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It’s Not Funny Anymore: VOTE. TODAY.
Vote today, because, among other reasons, tomorrow, the Victory Coffeeshop will give you a free coffee. Really.
Got any book recommendations?