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Facebook | Greenpeace USA’s Notes.
This is a Greenpeace USA Facebook note about the presence of global warming control in the budget. I don’t care if you are republican or democrat, whether you like Bush, Obama, Reagan, whoever. Read this note, and if you need to, go to www.coal-is-clean.com, to read more about global warming and [...]

Ok. I’m in Ireland for Spring Break. Arrived yesterday, am in Galway, and went to the Aran Isles today. Beautiful. Crap weather. Who could live in nothing but 40 degrees, rain, and wind constantly? gross.

Streetsblog » Bloomberg Puts Forward a Bold, Transformative New Vision for Broadway.
NYC’s Mayor Bloomberg is taking one of Manhattan’s most well-known streets and pulling cars out of the equation. It makes sense…going to NYC last fall, I observed the tight corners and crazy alignment of Broadway compared to the rest of the grid [...]

There are problems.
• Mr. Quicksolve does not live here anymore. In fact, he is like George Kaplan in Hitchcock’s classic film North By Northwest: Mr. Quicksolve does not exist (and never did).
• Accepting a quick solution means that we are addressing symptoms not causes.
• Quick solutions do not work and often make things worse.
• Quick solutions take away needed [...]

Obama Plans Massive New High Speed Railroad : TreeHugger.
This is awesome. I had heard mention of Obama proposing bring rail back, but this sounds pretty great. The bit about the Midwest being a concentration point will be pretty crucial. It is reminiscent in some ways of the Interurban lines that used to crisscross all of Indiana. Not [...]