02011-10-11 | Uncategorized
The Opera ‘Dr. Sun Yat-sen’ Is Canceled in China – NYTimes.com
Hearing an onstage choir sing “Strive for revolution to the very end!” over ambiguous floating fifths instead of triumphant trumpets may have given officials second thoughts.
I just like “ambiguous floating fifths instead of triumphant trumpets”…
02009-03-09 | Environment, News
Tom Friedman: Mother Nature and the Market Say “No More.”
We have created a system for growth that depended on our building more and more stores to sell more and more stuff made in more and more factories in China, powered by more and more coal that would cause more and more climate change but earn China more and more dollars to buy more and more U.S. T-bills so America would have more and more money to build more and more stores and sell more and more stuff that would employ more and more Chinese …
However he does end up on a more positive note, quoting Australian environmentalist Paul Gilding:
“We are taking a system operating past its capacity and driving it faster and harder,” he wrote me. “No matter how wonderful the system is, the laws of physics and biology still apply.” We must have growth, but we must grow in a different way. For starters, economies need to transition to the concept of net-zero, whereby buildings, cars, factories and homes are designed not only to generate as much energy as they use but to be infinitely recyclable in as many parts as possible. Let’s grow by creating flows rather than plundering more stocks.
02009-02-03 | Design
I LEGO N.Y. – Abstract City Blog – NYTimes.com
I LEGO N.Y.
Imaginative!
02009-01-20 | Environment
Ecuador Extends Rights To Ecosystems : TreeHugger
A few months after Lloyd reported on the Swiss government’s conclusion that plants have rights the Ecuadorian population went one step further and voted to change their constitution to proclaim that nature has “the right to the maintenance and regeneration of its vital cycles, structure, functions and evolutionary processes.”
The New York Times felt that the Ecuadorian concept of plants’ rights was significant enough to include it in their 8th Annual Year in Ideas list.
02009-01-17 | Food, News
A County in China Sees Its Fortunes in Tea Leaves Until a Bubble Bursts – NYTimes.com
MENGHAI, China — Saudi Arabia has its oil. South Africa has its diamonds. And here in China’s temperate southwest, prosperity has come from the scrubby green tea trees that blanket the mountains of fabled Menghai County.