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Almost But Not Quite Co-opsCan a struggling businesses be spared from closing its doors if ownership is transferred to the workers/community?
I wrote a case-study for Co about four businesses—a restaurant, a small-town grocery store, a community center, and a pulp & paper mill—that explored the possibility of converting into a co-operatives. Read why it didn't work out for them. |
Making Tortilla One Cob at a TimeThe Fall Harvest is a time to celebrate local food. For months, we’ve been anticipating the cornucopia of produce that’s now available at markets and grocery stores. We can finally sink our teeth into the season’s first ears of corn. But many of us will have already had our first corn months ago, when it was trucked in from South America, as if the Summer barbeque season, in its full golden glory, could be expedited by a cob of corn.
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Has Local Gone Too Far?*guest post for The Healthy Butcher's blog,
The importance of eating locally grown food has gained a strong presence in public consciousness—perhaps its presence is a little too strong. Being local is often considered the ultimate indicator of ethical food. But, in truth, local is just one of many factors we need to weigh in before putting an item into our grocery basket. |
The Accessible Icon as a Barrier to EducationTeachers speak of the “hidden curriculum”, the implicit lessons we teach our students. The signage around our schools can be a part of this hidden curriculum because signs often carry implicit messages. For example, take the International Symbol of Access (ISA), which explicitly indicates where one can find barrier free access, but implicitly reinforces barriers to education and accessibility because it focuses on inability instead of ability.
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Natural Light and Time's Passage at
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The Horse PalaceBreathing in deeply, your lungs and body fill with this air – the air of a bygone era when horses were an ubiquitous part of urban life. You’re not just looking back in time; you’re smelling back in time. These smells describe a world that is impossible to articulate in words and images; the nose is a gateway into a different dimension of reality, one that isn’t reducible to the dimensions of sight and language.
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Running the White LightMany drivers read the amber light as a “hurry up” signal; they often don’t stop when they could, and instead of completing their maneuver they begin their maneuver—sometimes even after the amber light has extinguished. It seems some motorists read the amber light as a green light and the red light as an amber light.
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Growing Policy:If rising food prices suddenly made it prohibitibely expensive to transport food into your city, what groceries would you find the the supermarket after one week? One month? One year? A city with a resilient food system can handle this very possible scenario. The key to urban food resilience is urban agriculture...
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The Regent Park Aquatic CenterDynamic lighting affects us deeply, whether we notice it consciously or subconsciously. It activates our temporal perception, our sense of time. To be aware of time is not trivial; time is a basic fact of the human condition. We always exist in time. If architecture is meant to be a place for human beings, then it should acknowledge the temporal dimension of our existence.
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