Tag: consumption
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Bike Zeitgeist: Being the Engine, Pedaling Revolution
GM just went bust. The Highway “Trust” Fund went bust a few months ago. The repo man is busy, busy, busy. No better time than today to introduce two great works that celebrate a better way: Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists Are Changing American Cities a book by Jeff Mapes (with a strong Madison connection; more…
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The UrbanThoreau Project Datapoints: An Emerging Culture of Using Less?
Can we connect the dots and avoid the simultaneous quadruple catastrophes of economic implosions, ethical collapse, biosphere-wide destruction and war between civilizations? Perhaps by learning to be happy with less material, we could…