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POPSUrban farming buzz feeds more egos than hungry people You don't have to do the numbers to realize that no amount of urban gardens, today, can green America or feed people in need of good food. It can make people feel good and take attention away from: working to grow the economy so people in need of food have better paying jobs and improving city living enough to encourage people to live there instead of the suburbs - thus reducing the number of people who have to drive to do anything. And by the way, the suburbs, for the most part, used to be America's truck garden and ready source of good, cheap and fresh food instead of a place to grow sprawl and all the waste that goes with it. That said - go ahead and plant a garden for yourself, it's good exercise and the food is good but you can't feed the world with it.
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POPSCity Slickers Head to the Country For More Security Motivations can vary, but typically there are three groups: young people buying land as an asset or investment, with vague hopes to live on it someday; exurban commuters who have jobs in big towns or cities but want to escape the sprawl; and back-to-the-land types who want to dabble in hobby farming.
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POPSNew Urbanism and Grayfield Development A nice article from American City & County. Most of this article talks about Duany Plater-Zyberk and some specific New Urbanism projects, but I'm interested in the comments about grayfields. I think New Urbanism works best when it can be an infill project. However, I disagree with the anti-Smart Growth professors from USC that greenfield New Urbanism does not have merit: even if you are building a bit of sprawl, if you use a compact form like New Urbanism, you will reduce vehicle trips and reduce the carbon footprint.
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POPSHas Obama found that the Enemy is Us? Barely clipped 1% of this article...worth a full read. --- The Tax Day Tea Parties revealed the other hot button issue for many Americans. When the Bush tax cuts expire in 2010 and Obama institutes his Cap & Trade energy tax, the economy will receive a double whammy. At that point the failed economic policies and higher taxes will lead to consternation and resentment throughout the land. The unending economic turmoil throughout the world will result in protests and anger in many countries. The more disturbing issue is how politicians will try to divert the attention of the masses through the use of an external threat.
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POPSWhat we don't want to hear, but the Birds already know This is a very large article and cannot be represented well enough to do it justice in a 1,000 character clip. PLEASE go to the web page by the link at top of page to enjoy the entire page and the rest of the recommended content provided. I beg you to look at this page. If you want proof...here it is! In your face scoffers!
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POPSTen Ways To Prepare For A Post-Oil Society 9: We have to reorganize the medical system. The skein of intertwined rackets based on endless Ponzi buck-passing scams will not survive the discontinuities to come. 10: Life in the USA will have to become much more local, and virtually all the activities of everyday life will have to be re-scaled. See Also: - The Long Emergency: What's going to happen as we start running out of cheap gas to guzzle? - JHK's post-oil novel World Made By Hand - The Kunstler-cast , a weekly discussion about the tragic comedy of suburban sprawl.
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POPSPopulation Explosion Destroying USA ? They caused it, we can deal with it or be a part of the change towards future problems and how our grandchildren and their children will be affected....our choice, our call. YOU decide...it's now or never.
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POPSEcocity Images We will one day add EcoHood Buffalo to this growing body of living city plans. I hope that day is not too far off.
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POPSUtopia for a modern age. Our goals include returning healthy biodiversity to the heart of our cities, agriculture to community gardens and the streets, and convenience and pleasure to walking, bicycling and transit. We work to build thriving city and neighborhood centers while reversing sprawl development; to build whole cities based on human needs and “access by proximity” rather than cities built in the current pattern of automobile driven excess, wasteful consumption and the destruction of the biosphere. We visualize a future in which waterways in neighborhood environments and prosperous downtown centers are opened for curious children and native plants and animals.
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POPSThe Fall of Great Cities: America's Fastest-Dying Cities
The former manufacturing backbone of the U.S. is in rougher shape than ever, still searching for some way to replace its long-stilled smokestacks. Where's it worst? Ohio has 4 of the 10 cities and Michigan has 2 cities making the ranking. So far this decade, 115,000 people have left Cleveland. Smaller changes in other regions can be just as painful: People are leaving in the thousands and they are not being replaced by either new babies or new immigrants. These cities face fleeing populations, painful waves of unemployment and barely growing economies... And they face even bleaker futures. Once great centers of business and industry, these cities now are shells of their former selves. They will have to re-shape their image & think outside of the box in order to try to attract future residents and businesses. The top 5 fastest dying American cities: 1. Canton, Ohio 2. Youngstown, Ohio 3. Flint, Mich. 4. Scranton, Pa. 5. Dayton, Ohio
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POPS"The tragic comedy of suburban sprawl" [podcast] Suburbia is a cartoon of country living in a cartoon of a house with a cartoon of a front lawn. It has all the worst aspects of being isolated out in the boonies, and none of the benefits of living in a city. It is a lifestyle that will come grinding to a halt once people realize that the cheap oil and fossil fuels that made the entire living arrangement possible are a thing of the past as The Long Emergency dawns on us.
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POPSECOCITY Builders An ecocity is a human settlement that enables its residents to live a good quality of life while using minimal natural resources. Its buildings make best use of sun, wind and rainfall to help supply the energy and water needs of occupants. Generally multistory to maximize the land available for greenspace. It is threaded with natural habitat corridors, to foster biodiversity and to give residents access to nature for recreation. Its food and other goods are sourced from within its borders or from nearby, in order to cut down on transport costs. The majority of its residents live within walking or cycling distance of their workplace, to minimise the need for motorised transport. Frequent public transport connects local centres for people who need to travel further. Local car sharing allows people to use a car only when needed. Ecocity Builders PO Box 697 Oakland, CA 94604 Phone/Fax 510-444-4508
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