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globeandmail.com: Today's suburbs, tomorrow's slums?
According to some doomsday scenarios, spiking gas prices could turn the cul-de-sacs and two-car garages that surround North America's cities - built over the past 60 years and designed for the convenience of people with cars - into tomorrow's slums.
The Secret Strategies Behind Many “Viral” Videos
interesting read. it's not as organic as you think....
The Center for Whole Communities
Center for Whole Communities seeks to foster inclusive communities that are strongly rooted in place and where all people -- regardless of income, gender, race, ethnicity, or background -- have access to and a healthy relationship with the land. At the co
Vegetarian myths, debunked. - By Taylor Clark - Slate Magazine
Imagine a completely normal person with completely normal food cravings, someone who has a broad range of friends, enjoys a good time, is carbon-based, and so on. Now remove from this person's diet anything that once had eyes, and, wham!, you have yoursel
Urgency is poisonous - (37signals)
why a 4 day work week is better, and why your so-called "urgency" might actually be a figment of your imagination.
Open Everything Gets Rolling | Web of Change
Open Everything is a global conversation about the art, science and spirit of 'open'. It gathers people using openness to create and improve software, education, media, philanthropy, architecture, neighbourhoods, workplaces and the society we live in: eve
WorldChanging: How Affordable is that Subdivision, Really?
Live out in McMansion Land, though, are your choices are basically drive or spend hours and hours in inconvenient transit, if it can be found at all. So auto dependent are most new suburbs, that they're hazardous to the health of the people who live there
The world's 50 most powerful blogs | Technology | The Observer
Interesting read - if for nothing else than to find new distractions online. :P
WorldChanging: Banning Toxic Toys to Build a Bright Green Childhood
The toxic components commonly found in toys have made front-page news again and again over the last few months, but the more we know, the worse the story gets. When the HealthyToys project tested a large random sample of toys sold in the U.S., they found
WorldChanging: The Cute Cat Theory of Digital Activism
"any sufficiently advanced read/write technology will get used for two purposes: pornography and activism. Porn is a weak test for the success of participatory media - it’s like tapping a mike and asking, “Is it on?” If you’re not getting porn in
Gone, Without a Trace | Print Article | Newsweek.com
As humiliating as it sounds, let me repeat: the MacBook Air is so thin that it got tossed out with the newspapers.
