Tag: consumption
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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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Mayor Pave Hogwild For Highways
Mayor Pave’s continuing pursuit pork and a more perfect Schaumburg.
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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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Conscience Tweak II: Thomas Berry
I often read the NYT Obits because they often fill in the gaps of my knowledge of events, thinkers, authors that fall in that middle time period between current events and history (so far that tends to coincide with the time of my childhood!). One great thinker I apparently missed is Thomas Berry (NYT Obit)…
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Sanitary Sprawl
Madison continues its subsidization of outer-ring aldermanic districts; this time via extravagant sewerage projects.
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Ivey Misses the Air for the Exhaust
Ivey looks on the dark side for a bright, promising proposal to reduce car traffic in Madison