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If you want to see an idyllic, small Italian city, Perugia may be the place for you. It fits all the characteristics of those beautiful Italian towns from the movies. However, it hasn’t forever. It took visionaries with a green spirit to turn the city around. National Geographic recently covered the transformation of this town [...]
In the beautiful city of Helsinki, Finland, there lies a hidden secret that is buried beneath the city. In order to become more sustainable, the city has decided to go underground to solve some of its big problems in an eco-friendly way. The City Plan The bedrock under Finland’s capital city accommodates a vast network [...]
After three days, the snow has finally stopped falling up here at the organic farm where we are in the Santa Lucia Mountains. The cold flurries had been relentless, and it had not been possible to do much. During the storm the chickens in residence did venture out in the snow for a little while, [...]
The junkie slept on the floor of her closet at night, and each morning she would take him to the county methadone clinic in Fullerton for his daily dose of “maintenance”. The rest of the junkie’s waking hours were spent scamming, extorting and stealing whatever he could in order to buy as much heroin as possible. Salome was only fifteen years old at this point in time, and not yet a very astute judge of character.
I could write all about the many benefits of cities, which I’ve been doing nearly everyday on here lately it seems, but rather than do that again, I’ll just direct you to the awesome video above of Jon Stewart interviewing Harvard economist and author of the new book, Triumph of the City, Edward Glaeser. The [...]
