Internazionale teaches me things I didn’t know I needed to know. Like how well Izis’ images complement Irene Nemirovsky’s words, for example.

Il Carnevale di Nizza (1956)

Le rive della Senna, Petit Pont (1949)

Jardin de Tuileries (1950)

Edge is an online magazine that describes itself as ‘world question center.’ The mandate of Edge Foundation is to promote inquiry into and discussion of intellectual, philosophical, artistic, and literary issues, as well as to work for the intellectual and social achievement of society.Their annual question for 2010 concerns our dear friend, le Interweb, and [...]

“…would connect turbines off the wind-lashed north coast of Scotland with Germany’s vast arrays of solar panels, and join the power of waves crashing on to the Belgian and Danish coasts with the hydro-electric dams nestled in Norway’s fjords: Europe’s first electricity grid dedicated to renewable power will become a political reality this month, as [...]

“Some people are irked by bad lighting, excessive AC, the reek of European men’s cologne. I’m hopelessly particular about music. Background sound tracks can make or break my impression of a place-and these days every place has one, from wine bars to Williams-Sonoma. Too often it’s employed with alarming incompetence.
I’m not talking about loud music [...]

This right here is an open letter about Open Letter.
While budgets for higher education are shrinking and reading rates worldwide are plummeting, Americans now consume over 11 hours of information on a daily basis (a recent University of California study found that Americans consume three zettabytes of information a year, equivalent to three sextillion gigabytes [...]

Delegates at COP15. From here.

Greenpeace ads in Copenhagen airport. From here.
Because a picture is worth a thousand words.
And because we’re all eco-warriors now, after world leaders failed us.

I have always been a fan of GOOD magazine’s ‘transparency’ section. While the magazine is at time superficial and fluffy, it does a good job at promoting important issues in the ‘progressive mainstream’ and its editors understand that elegant design can go a long way. The graph above is a visual representation of the sources [...]

Power to the urban nerds! (And, yes, I am serious.)
I am so in love with the urban studies, environmental design, global cities and social innovation literature currently populating my bookcase. Waking up at 6am to be sneaking in some sweet ole studyin’ before work has never felt more decadent.

Photo from here.
“A society without a stable [...]

Stumbled upon this interview with Melissa Holbrook Pierson, author of the book The Place You Love Is Gone- Progress Hits Home. In the book she explores what happens to places when “progress” and change take over a city or neighbourhood, often changing it beyond recognition (sounds familiar?) The Believer writes: “Often, Pierson wishes progress, in [...]