January 2012
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December 2011
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“It’s all politics. In the meantime, people are suffering.”
– Ed Myles, the president of a local manufacturing company, J.E. Myles & Co.
Michigan City of Troy, Led by Tea Party Mayor, Rejects Federal Dollars - NYTimes.com
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November 2011
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“For too long, we over-invested in the wrong places,”
– The Death of the Fringe Suburb - NYTimes.com
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“Suburban offices are even more unsustainably designed than residential...”
– To Rethink Sprawl, Start With Offices - NYTimes.com
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“I voted for Barack Obama, and I don’t want my money back”
– Go Big, Mr. Obama - NYTimes.com
“Fully half the built environment that we will have on the ground in 25 years...”
– Kaid Benfield
Preserving the Environment with Cities, Not In Spite of Them - Design - The Atlantic Cities
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“The more money we spend on schools today, the less we’ll have to spend on...”
– His Libraries, 12,000 So Far, Change Lives - NYTimes.com
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“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.”
– That’s Frank Gehry. The famed architect will take the stage at #ThinkFest this weekend, and we’ve got an opportunity to ask him one question. But we’d rather that come from you! So we ask: Do you have a question we can pass along to Frank Gehry? Tell us w/ a reblog or on Twitter w/ hashtag...
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“What’s wrong with education cannot be fixed with technology.”
– Steve Jobs, in a 1996 interview with Wired magazine.
Apple Woos Educators With Trips to Silicon Valley - NYTimes.com
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September 2011
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“All in all, the most efficient and pleasant approach to travel is to be drugged...”
– Alt Text: Tired of Traditional Travel? Tough. | Underwire | Wired.com
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“They’ll be playing SimCity for real.”
– Scheduled to open in 2014, the Center for Innovation, Testing and Evaluation, as the town is officially known, will come complete with roads, buildings, water lines and power grids, enough to support 35,000 people — even though no one will ever live there. It will be a life-size laboratory for...
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“the alternative to junk food is not grass-fed beef and greens from a trendy...”
– Is Junk Food Really Cheaper? - NYTimes.com
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50 Most Influential Designers in America →
Co.Design’s influence matrix tracks designers from the virtual (websites and information) to the physical (cars and even spaceships). Thinkers wield influence through writing and leadership, while makers exert it through their work.
Infographic by Kristina Dimatteo
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“If I could microchip my kids, I would.”
– Jamie Squires, after her family cat was found 5 years later and 1800 miles away.
Willow, Lost Cat From Colorado, Resurfaces in Manhattan - NYTimes.com
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“…you can be a cable television darling by saying provocative things, but...”
– Misstatements Shadow Bachmann in Republican Presidential Race - NYTimes.com
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“I want you to call. I want you to e-mail. I want you to tweet. I want you to...”
– President Obama, urging people to contact their elected representatives and tell them to pass his proposals
And the Good News Is - NYTimes.com
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“We’re Americans. If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.”
– Adm. Dennis C. Blair, who served briefly as President Obama’s director of national intelligence, said recently when asked how the costs rose, then spiraled out of control .
The 9/11 Decade - The Price of Lost Chances - NYTimes.com
August 2011
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“There is no green car without green recycling.”
– Ghislain Van Damme, a manager at Umicore, a company based here in Hoboken that is one of the world’s largest recyclers of precious and specialty metals from electronic waste.
Fancy Batteries in Electric Cars Pose Recycling Challenges - NYTimes.com
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“It’s an amenity I think people are starting to expect in a new building.”
– Stephen G. Kliegerman, the president for development marketing at Halstead.
The Bicycle Muscles In - NYTimes.com
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“Stop giving kids books and start giving them tools.”
– Not letting your children learn the hands-on component of the theory of science is killing us as a nation. You have to stop giving kids books and start giving them tools.
Antigone Sharris, Gadget Camp
A Summer Camp to Lure Girls Into Manufacturing Careers - NYTimes.com
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“The original story of Times New Roman’s genesis goes like this: Morison wrote a...”
– Katherine Eastland traces the secret history of the world’s most popular font, Times New Roman. (via thedailyfeed)
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Watchkliniczero:
Unfinished Spaces is a feature documentary scheduled for worldwide release in 2011. It tells the story of three architects who resume their first project—Cuba’s National Art Schools—left unfinished in 1965 when their creative visions came head to head with the political realities of the Revolution. Directed by Alysa Nahmias & Benjamin Murray
A must see!
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Design for sustainability 2.0
Designing to expand adaptive capacity means creating objects, templates and platforms that allow people and systems to survive and even thrive in a complex and uncertain planet. In a world increasingly shaped by peak oil, global warming, economic uncertainty and environmental disasters (Deep Water Horizon, Pakistani floods, Fukushima), designers are coming to grips with how to help users...
“Sustainability is about common sense.”
– It isn’t a movement, a reaction, or a philosophy. It’s simply about doing no harm, making thoughtful choices, and being concerned with the impact of your actions over time. It is essentially a conservative approach to life and building.
- Architect, Mark English
Redefining Sustainability |...
June 2011
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“we have underestimated the overall risks”
– … the whole of marine degradation is greater than the sum of its parts, and that degradation is now happening at a faster rate than predicted.
Oceans Are at Dire Risk, Team of Scientists Warns - NYTimes.com
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A Car-Free Corridor on the Maine Coast
smartercities:
CarFree Coast of Maine View more presentations from New Media Transit
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“What we do with our hands is, mostly, type, poke, tap, or swipe.”
– The manipulation of physical things seems to have receded, replaced by good simulations or visualizations, which may satisfy the eye and the mind but leave us feeling strangely amputated. We’re parched for the handling of actual stuff, deprived of the knowledge of things through their intimate...
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