Los Angeles architect Fritz Haeg looks to change the world by changing our notions about landscaping by John Bentley Mays | The Globe And Mail | January 22, 2010 For millions of Americans and Canadians, the front lawn is a sacred place. It symbolizes home ownership quite as forcefully as the house itself does. Kept vividly [...]
We’re less mobile and more place-bound, and it’s not just the recession that’s slowing restless America’s nomadic habits. This is good news for Seattle, the environment, and mossbacks. by Knute Berger | Crosscut | January 20, 2010 Developers love predicting that growth isunstoppable and inevitable, but the Great Recession is showing how untrue this really is. [...]
But DSCOVR remains grounded. That fact is key to interpreting the so-called ‘climategate’ emails. by Mitchell Anderson | TheTyee.ca | January 20, 2010 The media missed the real story about the so-called “climategate” scandal. After thousands of emails were mysteriously stolen from the University of East Anglia and distributed just before the climate conference in Copenhagen, many [...]
From EduPunks to food jewelers, people are using new tools to take learning, art, entertainment, technology, politics, and even science into their own hands. Behold the growing Maker Movement. By Pia Bahile, Curtis File and Kevin Young | TheTyee.ca | Today (as good as any day) [Editor's note: The Tyee is proud to co-publish with Rabble.ca a multi-part, multi-media [...]
by Jerry Large | Seattle Times | January 13, 2010 It is possible to improve the lives of the poor, the middle class and the well off, by addressing one big problem. It turns out that reducing economic inequality can reduce a whole range of social problems, from teenage pregnancy and youth violence, to heart [...]
Decision from world’s leading search engine comes amid a clampdown on the internet in China over the last year Google challenge to China over censorship by Tania Branigan in Beijing | The Guardian | Wednesday 13 January 2010 Google, the world’s leading search engine, has thrown down the gauntlet to China by saying it is no longer willing to censor [...]
Neglect of the natural services provided by biodiversity is an economic catastrophe greater than the global economic crisis by Robert Bloomfield | guardian.co.uk | Monday 11 January 2010 07.00 GMT Starting Monday, celebrations and events across the world will highlight the beginning of the UN’s Year of International Biodiversity and the loss of our richly varied [...]
For years, the secrets to great teaching have seemed more like alchemy than science, a mix of motivational mumbo jumbo and misty-eyed tales of inspiration and dedication. But for more than a decade, one organization has been tracking hundreds of thousands of kids, and looking at why some teachers can move them three grade levels [...]
Welcome to this 14th annual selection of a few of the year’s most over-hyped and underreported stories. With the news business, especially newspapers, undergoing a not-very-slow collapse (R.I.P. Post-Intelligencer), and hard news coverage usually the first victim of tightening budgets, there was more underreported news than ever this year. Fear not, however. America’s addiction to trivial [...]
Rescued animal returns the favor by warning family when an electric blanket catches fire. by Stephanie Rogers | Mother Nature Network | January 4, 2009 When Yu Feng of Liaoning Province in China found a dying black snake in the grass outside his home, he made an unusual decision that would change his life. Yu [...]