#Linkages/052112

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)

#Videos/051712

I run across a good number of videos over the course of the week, and I want to start sharing the best ones with you. Enjoy!

How to Use One Paper Towel // Seriously, this is a great presentation. Shake! Fold!

A Story For Tomorrow // One couple’s journey through Chile. Beautiful.

Welcome to Life // The singularity, while being an incredibly cool/scary idea, might have some trouble dealing with intellectual property rights as they currently stand.

The Baronton Sisters // An amazing old clip from the Ed Sullivan Show. All I can think about is how painful perfecting this act must have been.

Gatorrada // Cat + buttered toast = perpetual energy. It’s so simple!

Cat Puke Complitation // Fantastic. If you’re looking for cat puke, though, this complitation is kinda of lame.

Nick Hanauer’s TED Talk on taxes // This has been the subject of some controversy, with the head guy at TED sayng it was “too partisan” to post. It’s a weird world when facts become too partisan.

#Linkages/051712

The housing recovery may be starting, but only if your house is in a walkable, mixed-income neighborhood. Take note, developers. Urban infill is what the people want. (via Atlantic Cities)

Has the long-expected exodus of baby boomers from government service begun? Perhaps. (via Federal News Radio)

Cool. So we’re subsidizing coal as well. Feds have to get their crap together on stuff like this. A billion dollars a year is not nothing. (via Grist)

Speaking of coal, West Virginia doesn’t want to talk about it. (via West Virginia Gazette)

Earl Blumenauer gets it. (via Dirt)

#Linkages/051612

The Potomac is America’s Most Endangered River. Maybe there really is something in the water… (via American Rivers)

An organic teaching farm is coming to Mississippi State. It’s so nice of them to let 24 of our 20,000 acres of farmland be used for this. What’s actually nice is some having faculty from Plant and Soil Sciences on board. I figured Landscape Architecture was going to be all alone in pushing for this. Monsanto must not have been told about it. (via Gaining Ground Institute)

Speaking of, this is how your college is selling out to Big Ag. (via Mother Jones)

Always great to hear someone talk about environmentalism from this perspective. (via Rachel Held Evans)

And finally, how much money would Scrooge McDuck really need to take his swim? (via The Billfold)

#Tuesday_10/051512

Haven’t made any mixtapes lately, so I want to try to do something that will make me make them. Hence, this. Every Tuesday, I’ll post ten good songs. Not necessarily the newest songs. Just ones that found me throughout the week. Here’s the first:

Classy Girls // Lumineers
Black And White // Generationals
Mountain Sound // Of Monsters and Men
I Get Ideas // M. Ward
Love Interruption // Jack White
Abducted // Cults
The Wave // Miike Snow
Orange Shirt // Discovery
Nighttiming // Coconut Records
State Of The Art // Gotye

#Linkages/051512

Superweeds might end up being sustainable ag’s best hope for government action. (via GOOD)

More and more people are embracing the Sustainable Sites Intitative. (via ASLA)

Washington, DC may have finally done sports-led urban redevelopment right. (via Atlantic Cities)

Slavery still exists in parts of Florida, and they’re harvesting our food. (via Tampa Bay Times)

The limiting factor in economic growth is no longer financial capital. Not that it ever was. (via CounterCurrents)

When we hit peak oil, we’ll also hit peak plastic. What happens then? (via Warren Ellis)