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How might we keep the lights on, water flowing, and natural world vaguely intact? It starts with grabbing innovative ideas/examples to help kick down our limits and inspire a more sustainable world. We implement with rigorous science backed by hard data.
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On defense: Cities get serious about climate resilience in 2013

On defense: Cities get serious about climate resilience in 2013 | Sustainability Science | Scoop.it
This is the year we realized that being "green" is more than a tired trend. For cities, coping with climate chaos is a matter of survival.
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Well...a few kind of started to get serious.

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Destination art: Guide to top sites in the Americas

Destination art: Guide to top sites in the Americas | Sustainability Science | Scoop.it
Art lovers and travelers alike are bound to argue over some of the choices in "Art & Place: Site-Specific Art of the Americas" (Phaidon 2013, $79.95),  a mammoth new coffee-table tome  that off...
PIRatE Lab's insight:

This is an interesting data point on the continuing divide between coastal and non-coastal culture/demographics.  Essentially all the "must see" places for cool art/visually stunning installations are in coastal cities and towns (I would hazard a guess that the authors spend most of the professional lives in coastal cities).  Here the wealth, political leanings, conspicuous art consumption, etc. has been diverging from our more inland neighbors for the past mant decades. I often worry that this divide is becoming much too wide for all of our own good.

 

As a side note, the lead example/image is from our very own Ventura mall.

Connor Jacob Meegan's comment, December 8, 2013 3:09 PM
this is cool. there is a building that is up-side-down that you can walk in. I want to go there.
PIRatE Lab's comment, December 8, 2013 9:02 PM
It is a pretty cool bus stop.