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Comment by TNT666 on Monday

Saving space??? Cars take up much more space than bicycles, I hope they are asking people to pay to park their cars that way too. I can fully imagine it costing more to park the cycle that way for a year than it is to buy a cycle! One thing about cyclist rights and accessibility. It should be near zero cost and near zero legal burden, since cyclists don't kill others, don't pollute, and cycling has its own health benefits.

Comment by Dallas (on hiatus) on June 10, 2013 at 9:16pm

Comment by Joan Denoo on June 10, 2013 at 4:59pm

Electric-Blue 'Noctilucent' Clouds get early 2013 start

Such an interesting cloud formation, perhaps we will be able to see them, 

Comment by Dallas (on hiatus) on June 4, 2013 at 6:32pm

Ecuador oil spill pollutes Amazon tributary

Comment by Grinning Cat on May 26, 2013 at 5:11pm

News to me: on May 1st, General Motors became the first automaker to sign Ceres' "Climate Declaration", thus affirming that global climate destabilization (climate change) is real.

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Comment by Dallas (on hiatus) on May 15, 2013 at 7:14pm

Ocean cleanup yields over 2 million cigarette butts

Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on May 15, 2013 at 3:18pm

This chart of temperature anomalies is helpful in grasping the role of El Nino and La Nina in Climate Change induced extreme weather events.

Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on May 10, 2013 at 11:51pm

Thanks for the blubberland link, Dallas.

For everyone who remembers Idiocracy, one of my favorite future scenario movies:

Comment by Dallas (on hiatus) on April 20, 2013 at 8:56pm

Ecological devastation is the excrement, so to speak, of man's power worship.  -- Ernest Becker

Comment by Dallas (on hiatus) on April 18, 2013 at 11:01pm

Possibly worth reading.

Blubberland: The Dangers of Happiness

Welcome to Blubberland--a world of quadruple-garaged mansions, vast malls, gated communities, stretch limos, and posh resorts. Blubberland is a place, but it is also a state of mind: we expect to be happy (trophy house, SUV in the driveway, home entertainment system, pension fund, cosmetic surgery), but in fact we've grown increasingly bloated, bored, and miserable. In Blubberland, award-winning critic Elizabeth Farrelly looks at our "superfluous superfluity," our huge eco-footprint, and asks why we find it so hard to abandon habits we know to be destructive. Why can't we build human-scale cities, design meaningful public spaces, eat reasonable meals, and stop assaulting nature? Farrelly, trained as an architect, begins this story with architecture, urban sprawl, and housing, but she does not end there. She also looks at "affluenza," childhood asthma, diabetes, addiction, beauty, ugliness, narcissism, climate change, mega-churches, big box retailers, sustainability, depression, anorexia, and the links that collect all of these issues under the same roof--the roof, as it were, of the McMansion. As "big" becomes more and more pervasive, and success is seen in increasingly measurable and material terms, the goal of happiness jeopardizes our survival. Blubberland is a smart, thoughtful, and stylish argument for turning things around. Elizabeth Farrelly is one of Australia's liveliest and most provocative writers on architecture and the environment. The winner of the CICA International Critics' Award, the Pascall Prize for Critical Writing, and the Marion Mahony Griffin Award, she is a columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald, a commentator on Australian television and radio, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Sydney.

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