The Final Fruits of Fall

2009-09-29T17:27:42Z

With Fall comes a certain period of reckoning and reflection. As the the final fruits of the season come to bear, the lessons learned are made all the more prescient. Working in our back alley garden and giving rise to agricultural plants has bee...

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Beloved Community Center on MIT TechTV

2009-09-25T21:18:49Z

MIT TechTV has a great piece about our neighboring garden over at the Beloved Community Center. From the site: "At the Beloved Community Center in Greensboro, NC, homeless neighbors and community members alike contribute to tending a large and ...

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Bites of Passage

2009-09-25T19:19:53Z

Hmm, this seems to explain all the mosquitoes we've been seeing this season. From theawl.com: This was the worst mosquito season ever, and it is all our fault. Not so long ago, those of us on the east coast weren't bitten during the day; that ha...

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Global Warming - Investors Lobby for Global Warming Laws - thedailygreen.com

2009-09-18T17:36:59Z

Global Warming - Investors Lobby for Global Warming Laws - thedailygreen.com: Global investors are speaking out on global warming policy.

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PIG 05049 : Christien Meindertsma

2009-09-16T15:32:27Z

PIG 05049 : Christien Meindertsma: Christien Meindertsma has spent three years researching all the products made from a single pig. Amongst some of the more unexpected results were: Ammunition, medicine, photo paper, heart valves, brakes, chewin...

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David Byrne’s Perfect City - WSJ.com

2009-09-15T17:41:43Z

David Byrne’s Perfect City - WSJ.com: Talking Heads frontman David Byrne dreams up a metropolis based on his favorite spots around the world. A look at what makes a city livable for him, from Tokyo's robo-parking lots and Berlin's boulevards to t...

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Men drive van across Cook Strait - national | Stuff.co.nz

2009-09-11T20:24:16Z

Men drive van across Cook Strait - national | Stuff.co.nz: Hilarious. Makes me miss NZ.

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Microbes as glass sculptures: in a word, beautiful. : The World's Fair

2009-09-08T19:12:37Z

Microbes as glass sculptures: in a word, beautiful. : The World's Fair: "" Benjamin Cohen is an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia. He studies the place of science in environmental history, ethics, and policy. He also writes other ...

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Japanese Minimalism -- Adbusters

2009-09-03T17:28:48Z

"In Japan the concept of kirei, or beauty, is analogous to being supremely clean: like the long, rectangular and perfectly unblemished tatami mats stretching away from the entrances of local temples. And if cleanliness is godly, then recycling is ...

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Refreshing

2009-08-26T20:56:50Z

Hello my dear unknown audience. Curtiss here. This may be the first time we're talking or you may be scanning back to see exactly where I picked up this blog and started writing as its author. Well, here it is, August 26th, the official refreshin...

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