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05/26/2025

Agroecology success.

Faced with widespread chemical pollution and a dramatic collapse in biodiversity, farmers and scientists in western France have been testing a revolutionary ...

05/09/2025

This is huge!

IN A NUTSHELL 🌞 Sunrun has created the largest virtual power plant in the U.S. by linking 75,000 home batteries. 🌿 The CalReady system provides 375 megawatts of backup power, energizing 280,000 homes, equivalent to all of Ventura County. 💡 This innovative approach helps reduce energy costs ...

05/10/2024

From Anne Applebaum, Staff Writer at The Atlantic

"In the 20th Century, Communist Party propaganda was overwhelming and inspiring, or at least it was meant to be. The future it portrayed was shiny and idealized, a vision of clean factories, abundant produce, and healthy tractor drivers with large muscles and square jaws.

"In the 21st century, authoritarian propaganda, whether coming from Russia, China, or the American far-right, has a very different goal: to create fear, cynicism, nihilism, and apathy. The point is to convince Americans that their democracy is degenerate, their elections illegitimate, their civilization dying. This story is told not only by Russian and Chinese bots and anonymous trolls, but by leading members of the Republican party, including the presidential candidate himself.

"... a description of the obstacles that face Atlantic writers and editors, as well as our colleagues in the rest of the media, when trying to report and explain the modern world. Of course we want to find out what is true. But we also hope that by doing so we can combat cynicism and nihilism. We want to persuade people that civic engagement is important, that public debate matters, and that American democracy has a future."

Read her latest cover story here:

Autocrats in China, Russia, and elsewhere are now making common cause with MAGA Republicans to discredit liberalism and freedom around the world.

01/07/2023

A much too short essay on the strength of Roman concrete.
Why Roman concrete outlasts its modern counterpart - CNN

The majestic structures of ancient Rome have survived for millennia — a testament to the ingenuity of Roman engineers, who perfected the use of concrete.

12/12/2022

09/06/2022

Three major water heater manufacturers say they are developing heat-pump water heaters (HPWHs) that will run on a 120-volt circuit, a development that could make the high-efficiency appliances a drop-in […]

08/20/2022

Why Regenerative Agriculture Can Benefit The Soil, Ecosystems & The Atmosphere

Why Regenerative Agriculture Can Benefit The Soil, Ecosystems & The Atmosphere.

07/21/2022

Downtown Bennington is shaping up even more with a new local grocery.

$300,000 still needed in fundraising effort for fledgling grocery, bakery, event space--ENNINGTON — A new Bennington Community Market aims

04/17/2022

We're still in the game! But time running out...
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04/02/2022

Alexander is not just an architect of living structures.

What makes Alexander contentious among architects is his insistence that some configurations of space are objectively more “living” in this way than others, and that there is a moral imperative, a duty of care, to create the more living structure.

03/19/2022

I was very saddened by the news of the passing of Christopher Alexander on 3/17/22 at his home in the UK. Christopher Alexander was a huge influence and inspiration to me over many years. I studied Environmental Design under one of his pupils, Rainier Hasenstab, while I was an undergraduate at Evergreen State College, who introduced Alexander to me and who inspired my career over the ensuing 30 years. Alexander's life's work was to define the Nature of Order as a manifestation of beauty and of life itself, and apply that Pattern Language to the design and building of our living environments.

Christopher Alexander, architect, author, and seminal late 20th Century design theorist, had an outsize influence far beyond the world of architecture. This ...