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A Day in a Less Developed Life. Parque Biblioteca España, Medellín.
The desire to create comfort and security for ourselves probably counts as one of the most rudimentary motivations in the ...
by citisven
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on Thu May 15, 2014 at 03:57 PM PDT
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“Is this your first WUF?” is a question commonly asked at the World Urban Forum , a gathering for, by, and about city people that was first convened by UN Habitat in Nairobi in 2002 and ...
by citisven
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on Fri Apr 18, 2014 at 09:50 AM PDT
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Hola! Bonjour! As-salam alaykom! Hello!
It's been a busy four months since I went into woodshed mode to help create the Ecocitizen World Map Project , a portal where citizens can map their ...
by citisven
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on Fri Mar 28, 2014 at 02:58 PM PDT
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From the Department of Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is , last week the city of London announced one of the largest cycling transportation development budgets in the history of the bicycle , ...
by citisven
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on Tue Mar 12, 2013 at 05:31 PM PDT
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Today Sunday Streets returned to my neighborhood in San Francisco's Mission District. Sunday Streets is an event organized by the City of San Francisco, MTA , and Livable City that creates a large, ...
by citisven
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on Sun Jun 03, 2012 at 07:19 PM PDT
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After largely ignoring the role of cities and local governments at its first 15 climate conferences, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( ...
by citisven
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on Tue Nov 29, 2011 at 09:49 AM PST
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Yesterday, Sunday ...
by citisven
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on Mon Oct 24, 2011 at 08:08 PM PDT
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Yesterday I posted Freiburg, Germany: City of the Future. Part I: Keeping What Works (a photo diary) -- the first in a two-part series about Freiburg , a model for ...
by citisven
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on Sat Aug 13, 2011 at 02:02 PM PDT
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It isn't hard to do!
This year's ...
by citisven
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on Tue May 10, 2011 at 06:11 PM PDT
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Not that this is news we didn't already know or have never heard about, but from the UN's Global ...
by citisven
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on Tue Mar 29, 2011 at 01:04 PM PDT
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Let's face it: The way our modern oh-so-advanced society is using energy is like pouring water into a bucket with holes in it. The whole fight about which energy source is the meanest, leanest and ...
by citisven
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on Mon Mar 21, 2011 at 04:58 PM PDT
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I truly believe that art and creativity must play a vital ...
by citisven
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on Fri Feb 25, 2011 at 10:24 AM PST
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This isn't really about the health care bill, but had been thinking of trying to write something as to this meme, so widely used, of 'job killing'. According to a few, and only a few, articles I've ...
by jimstaro
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on Thu Jan 20, 2011 at 12:20 PM PST
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This morning I hopped on my bike, took the BART train to North Berkeley, and rode the Ohlone Greenway to participate in a 350 ...
by citisven
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on Sun Oct 10, 2010 at 08:38 PM PDT
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This April, after Eyjafjallaj�kull had thwarted a planned visit of an old friend in Spain and stranded us in ...
by citisven
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on Fri Aug 06, 2010 at 08:54 AM PDT
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The last couple of days saw some great news for Bay Area pedestrians and all those who enjoy car-free European-style city centers.
by citisven
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on Wed Feb 10, 2010 at 05:18 PM PST
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One stop on my recent trip to Europe was Venice. Visiting my parents (who live in nearby Vicenza) on my way to attend ...
by citisven
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on Thu Jan 07, 2010 at 04:56 PM PST
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That's the title of an article in this week's Time Magazine. Being a great aficionado of all things simple and eco as ...
by citisven
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on Thu Oct 15, 2009 at 11:04 PM PDT
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How would you like it if this was your home?
A Sherman tank demolishes ...
by citisven
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on Mon Sep 14, 2009 at 07:12 PM PDT
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- A 2019 scientific study by the University College London, UK, and published in the Quaternary Science Reviews, found that European colonization and genocide of the indigenous people of the Americas at the end of the fifteenth century cooled the planet,...110 comments 146 Recs
- Just two weeks after Donald Trump urged radical leftists to vote for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this November—because “ he’s got some nice things about him” and�“I happen to like him”—he’s�4 comments 14 Recs
- The outlet of the Salish Sea in Washington-British Columbia is the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Supposedly discovered by a man who called himself Juan de Fuca. His real name was apparently Apóstolos Valerianos and he probably never entered the Strait which...66 comments 198 Recs
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- Ukraine is having to retreat from three villages. This plant in Tatarstan produces trucks for the military. Ukraine has been destroying a whole lot of Russian artillery systems lately. Should have stayed home. Two Ukrainian soldiers rehabbing in...7 comments 44 Recs
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