Tag: Environment
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Flat Flyover Country…INDEED! And How Bicycling Adds Juice to Any Economy
Flyover country ain’t so flat after all. And those wacky cyclist characters provide the turbo charge to any economic engine.
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Highway Bloatitecture: A Cancer on the City Center
What do Brussels, Madison, Atlanta, and Little Rock have in common? Highway-scaped Bloatitecture in the middle of the city.
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Mayor Pave: Keeping up with the Schaumburgs
Yet another auto-centric pave over of our countryside.
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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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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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NYC Makes Space for People
I’m not a huge fan of Bloomberg,* but it is great to see that he has empowered a visionary Transportation Commissioner to make NYC a more livable place for pedestrians & bicyclists. Janette Sadik-Khan has been very aggressive in taming NYC’s streets to the benefit of people (as opposed to cars). Her latest project hints…
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Trashing the Earth. Black Earth Creek, That Is
Yet another developer to trash western Dane County’s scenic beauty and pristine waters. Group valiantly opposes, and asks your help in writing to county reps.
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Mayor Pave’s Paving Problem
Oceanic Parking Mandated by Madison’s 1966 Zoning Code: Will It Change? Don’t bet on it!
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The New China Crisis: Carbon by Container Ship
Today’s Krugman article on “Carbon by Container Ship”–the New China Crisis.
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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…