2012-05-21

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Beautiful work by PGA pro Ben Crenshaw and his golf course design firm. Designing this way wouldn’t just be best for golf courses, you know. (via Wall Street Journal)

That coal I said we were subsidizing earlier? Yeah, we sell it for $1.11/ton. Which is then sold to China for $123/ton. Nice profit, that. It’s also welfare. (via Grist)

The biggest difference we can make in the health of our nation? Finally recognizing that our development patterns have a direct influence on our health. (via Greater Greater Washington)

It would also help if we recognized our development patterns for what they are: a ponzi scheme. (via Strong Towns)

Ernest Callenbach’s final words to America. Repost this far and wide. We need to hear it. (via Mother Jones)


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Linkages/052212 #Linkages/052212 Good interview with Alan Enrenhalt, author of The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City, about, well, city inversion.