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On Cities, Food, History, and Future

by Tim Berry on October 15, 2009

in Current Affairs, Economics

In honor of Blog Action Day, the video here is a 15-minute TED talk by Carolyn Steel, author and architect. Among the startling things she says here:

We lose about 47 million acres of rainforest every year. And at the same time, we lose about 50 million acres of farm land to salinization and erosion.
Half the [...]

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The Web as Random Acts of Kindness

by Tim Berry on September 24, 2009

in Current Affairs, True Stories, Web/Tech

Researchers put a cute-looking cardboard robot on the streets of New York. It could only go forward but it had a note asking people to help it to its destination. It got there quickly with the help of 43 people. They asked for nothing in return.
A teenager got caught on YouTube with a humiliating [...]

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Stewart Brand’s 4 Environmental Heresies

by Tim Berry on July 14, 2009

in Current Affairs, Green Business, Web/Tech

I’ve been a reader of, and kind of a fan of, Stewart Brand for just about 40 years now, since the first Whole Earth Catalog came out while I was in college. To me he stands for the long-term component of so-called “hippie” values that have since become mainstream, because they make sense. Among them, [...]

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