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Well, now what? Adaptation, not mitigation, is the new climate story
In the last few months, I’m seeing a larger number of projects come my way with a decidedly different tone: It’s too late. Climate change is here, it’s real, and we’ve waited too long to address it.
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Share the Road, Jerks
I just stumbled on this post on GOOD, and I have terrible mixed feelings about it. Instead of teaching cyclists to “act like a car,” take up a lot of space and be rude to other road users, can’t we make sure everyone on the road is acting like a human?
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Even the revolution needs good grammar
In 2007, I volunteered to be an editor for the Queeruption zine. I had friends involved in the organizing and friends attending, and while it wasn’t my scene, I wanted to support the mission of building community and empowering queer activism. The zine was, well, a classic zine: handmade and rough around the edges. The…
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Macon Money: Social Games Meets Social Impact
Macon Money, a Knight Foundation-funded social-impact game aimed at strengthening community ties and bolstering economic revitalization in Macon, Ga., got a writeup this week in the Nieman Journalism Lab blog. Interesting read that touches on civic engagement and media business models. Read the whole story
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OSIsoft Case Study: UC San Diego’s Microgrid
I recently worked with the teams at OSIsoft and Sustainable Industries to publish a case study looking at the UC San Diego’s microgrid. Today, the campus produces 92% of its own energy. It’s striving to go further with a combination of new clean energy resources, additional on-site generation and storage, and innovative demand-reduction strategies.
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“Cultivating the Landscape of Innovation in Computational Journalism”
I’m announcing my intent to read a few more times, and then blog about, this paper: “Cultivating the Landscape of Innovation in Computational Journalism.”
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High Line miscellany
I’ve been a casual cross-country observer of New York’s High Line project for some time. I must have read about it in Metropolis magazine, back in 2004/2005, when I was a religious cover-to-cover reader. But the fame of the project seems to have reached a fever pitch over the last few months, and I’m constantly seeing little…
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