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03.31.13: John Foster
Drawn to CurrencyThe Accidental Mystery of Tim Prusmack's hand drawn currency.
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02.04.13: John Thackara
Cycle Commerce: The Red Blood Cells of a Smart CityDehli's many millions of bicycle and rickshaw vendors embody the entrepreneurship, sustainable mobility, social innovation and thriving local economies, that a sustainable city needs. How can that be traslated to European cities?
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01.14.13: John Thackara
Healing The Metabolic RiftJohn Thackara on the possibilities and issues global business leaders will face at the 2013 World Economic Forum.
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05.01.12: John Thackara
Istanbul: City of SeedsRather than dream up exotic visions of “what could be”, an xskool looks for social and natural assets that already exist – and grows from there.
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02.14.12: John Thackara
Design In The Light of Dark EnergyA shortened version of a talk on why the world has to reduce energy consumption, the five per cent energy solution and some of the people around the world who are leading the way.
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02.14.12: John Thackara
A Reading List for Mr. Mario MontiA (mostly) online list of readings for the new Italian Prime Minister, Mr. Mario Monti, and anyone else who is ready for a cold hard look at our energy resources and options.
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11.16.11: Alexandra Lange
Who Are We Competing For?At the "Zoning the City" conference, planners insisted cities were in competition? But why are we so focused on the people who want to leave, rather than those who want to stay?
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08.30.11: Fred A. Bernstein
The Next World's Fair: A ProposalFred Bernstein makes a case for New York City to be the host of the next World's Fair.
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04.27.11: John Thackara
From Eds & Meds to Farms and WatershedsEds & Meds behemoths that bestride Pittsburgh's skyline are not the only game in town. Even a small meadow contains a lot of plants.
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03.21.11: John Thackara
From Bankster HQ to Start-up Central in IcelandThe Start-Up Kids is a documentary about young entrepreneurs who have founded web and media startups in the US and Europe.
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02.11.11: Rob Walker
Fun StuffA result of the wrenching economic downturn is that we just don’t care about stuff anymore.
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12.09.10: Rob Walker
Rob Walker's Collection of Bicentennial QuartersRob Walker shares his collection of bicentennial quarters.
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06.14.10: Alexandra Lange
"We Can't Really Pay"All of you print people who scorned bloggers but have moved into blogging and helm publications that “blog,” earth to you: You don’t pay.
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03.13.10: Rob Walker
Valuing $0Lewis Hyde wrote The Gift decades ago for an audience of artists, writers and other people who create. Chris Anderson, cited Hyde’s work in his book Free, published last year.
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09.10.09: Dmitri Siegel
Lost In the SupermarketDmitri Siegel gets lost in the Supermarket and encounters incredibly grippy toothbushes, spouts, nozzles, Thorstein Veblen and Adolf Loos.
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08.12.09: Michael Erard
A Short Manifesto on the Future of AttentionWe have a wide-ranging discussion about what is and what can't be free, which is basically about the future of profit. Maybe we should be considering a dilemma of a human nature: the future of attention.
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03.07.09: Mark Lamster
Seattle PI: RIPThe Seattle Post-Intelligencer was founded 146 years ago, when that city was an industrial backwater on Elliot Bay, a timber town with more logs than people.
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03.05.09: Mark Lamster
Save the Library ReduxCould it be that the sour economy is the best friend of the good old library?
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01.14.09: Mark Lamster
Who Needs Two?In this brutal economy, the Yankees have enlisted Prudential Douglas Elliman to help them move high-end seats at their new stadium.
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12.12.08: Rob Walker
Talk is CheapAs the financial crisis snowballed this year, retail sales fell sharply. Curiously, many assessments of this development treated it as an exciting new trend.
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09.16.08: Gong Szeto
Lehman's Bankruptcy StatementI'm just a designer, but it doesn't take a genius to read a bankruptcy statement. Take a look at the Lehman Brothers statement dated Sunday, September 14, 2008. Read the whole thing down to exhibit A and the list of creditors — this is an historical document.
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