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TreeEconomics –Who Says Money Doesn’t Grow On Trees?

February 8, 2012 by William Carson
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Why adding trees to your urban environment is like putting money in the bank. Awesome! [read more]

Eloquent Explanation of the Occupy Movement

November 22, 2011 by Mark Lovett
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I’m in London at the moment and paid a visit this morning to the Occupy London encampment outside St Paul’s Cathedral.  Since the Occupy Wall Street protest began, and subsequently spread to dozens of other cities around the world, I’ve tried to get my mind around the intent, purpose, idea, and end game of it all.That hasn’t been an... [read more]

Opportunity Migration: Economics Cause Moves Among Cities

June 23, 2011 by Jim Russell
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In the latest issue of Next American City, author Benjamin de la Peña sums up the urban attraction:Cities don't impoverish people; rather, as Edward Glaeser puts it, cities "attract the poor" because they generate economic opportunity.That makes sense when describing the emptying of the rural hinterlands. But how would one model an... [read more]

Post Carbon Reader Hits the Shelves

October 20, 2010 by Warren Karlenzig
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The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century's Sustainability Crises from Watershed Media and the University of California Press hit bookstores this week. The compendium of 35 experts explores how previously unimaginable advances in health, wealth, and technology, fed an explosion in population and consumption that came at an... [read more]

Can you afford to buy local?

June 28, 2010 by Robert Stockham
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I am a firm believer in supporting the local economy.  I also believe in supporting small business.  Being sustainable means taking a long term look at the decisions that we make and making choices that best benefit ourselves, our communities and our planet.  But can we always afford to make the best choices? There have... [read more]

After Neoliberalism: Cities and Systemic Chaos

June 25, 2010 by polis blog
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In November 2008, the Modern Art Museum of Barcelona organized a seminar called: After Neoliberalism: Cities and Systemic Chaos. This event gathered Neil Young, The Metropolitan Observatory from Madrid, Raquel Rolnik, Andrew Ross and Mike Davis. On the occasion of this event, the texts of the seminar were published in the book with the... [read more]

Mountain Biking, Teens and Suburban Cultural Shifts

May 17, 2010 by Warren Karlenzig
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Yesterday, Sir Francis Drake High School, from suburban San Francisco, took the California State Mountain Biking Championship. The teenage girls and boys (my son is one of them) beat dozens of competing schools from around the state in a series of four dirt road and trail races. What do suburban teen mountain bikers have to do with... [read more]

Sustainability and Social Context

May 8, 2010 by Fabian Neuhaus
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"In nature, organisms and species coexist in an ecosystem, where each species has its own place or niche in the system. The environment contains a limited number and amount of resources, and the various species must compete for access to those resources, where successive adaptations in one group put pressure on another group to catch up... [read more]

Oil Spill may be worse than Exxon Valdez

April 29, 2010 by Warren Karlenzig
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As I Twittered early this morning, the BP Gulf oil spill now has the potential to become larger than the catastrophic Exxon Valdez spill of 1989, which spilled 10.8 million gallons of oil into Prince William Sound, devastating the Alaskan fishing industry and state's economy. The Exxon Valdez spill resulted in an estimated $5 to 7... [read more]