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Clusterfuck Nation by Jim Kunstler : Peak Suburbia

Added On June 26, 2007
'local agriculture wherever possible, the emergency restoration of passenger railroad service and related modes of public transit, the rebuilding of local commercial infrastructures, and a radical rethinking of how we inhabit the landscape under New Urban

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Meet the people of 'Everystreet' | MetaFilter

Added On May 14, 2007
'Single person home-ownership should be seen as the historical anomaly that it is. The Observer article is interesting in this supposedly progressive paper completely buys into the idea that home-ownership is the be-all and end-all of human existence -- T

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Annals of Transport: There and Back Again: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker

Added On April 21, 2007
'“I was shocked to find how robust a predictor of social isolation commuting is,” Robert Putnam, a Harvard political scientist, told me. (Putnam wrote the best-seller “Bowling Alone,” about the disintegration of American civic life.) “There’s

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Free Snow Balls For Life | MetaFilter

Added On March 19, 2007
'"I could live someplace like that, if it weren't for the -60 degree part." Exactly! But who knows? Over the coming decades, the cold may become less severe.'

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Early Retirement: Where to Live?

Added On January 31, 2006
(also less stressful & easier to move!) 'If you can rent anything decent, try to avoid buying property. Think about the most interesting people you know. Chances are, most of them are renters. People who rent talk about the books that they've read, the tr

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