Archive for March, 2008

Tis the Season

March 17, 2008
Tis the Season

To Remind Children that Bunnies Come from Eggs? At some point, the Christians adopted the Pagan rites of spring in order to make their somber festivities more palatable for those who saw the season as a time of rebirth and an opportunity to reconnect with nature. Fast forward 1500 years and German settlers in Pennsylvania [...]

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House as Art

March 13, 2008
House as Art

Sustainable Art At That Two Chicago based artists have taken on the project of making the invisible, visible. In their home remodeling project, which is actually much more than that, they have literally gone green. While there are certainly plenty of sustainability minded components to the building, including a wind turbine, the hue of the [...]

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Simulation Wednesday

March 12, 2008
Simulation Wednesday

Spitzers Skyscrapers have History Hellicopters are no longer hovering above the Spitzer household which is just a bit farther north than our home at Hunter College.  He has said his piece, but I’m still feeling duped and waiting for something more.  In the meantime, while I continue to wait for whatever it is I am [...]

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No Nukes

March 11, 2008
No Nukes

What Will be the Fate of Indian Point? While much of yesterday’s-and today’s-news was eclipsed by the bad decisions of our governor, an important energy issue went to court: Indian Point renewal licenses.  The state of New York itself, in addition to a host of environmental groups and Westchester Country stand in opposition to allowing [...]

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Slums in the Suburbs

March 6, 2008
Slums in the Suburbs

The Inner “City” No Longer People love to talk about urban revitalization in all its glory and pain. But what about the flip side of that: What is happening with the American experiment of suburbia? Potential Slum of the Future? In this extremely interesting-somewhat frightful, yet at moments hopeful-analysis of what is actually happening in [...]

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