Monday, February 24, 2020

A CAUTION FOR RETURNEES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9tCu31EVnE&fbclid=IwAR3Bo8kFdT-rynmJ0ouDYk6XtZ4_w23yg-4m0wGnSUHKB7rAIRhvCtXuVaI

Sunday, February 23, 2020

Google Street View

https://www.ecosophia.net/toward-the-next-america/
Andrew Gould Architecture

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=andrew+gould+architecture&qpvt=andrew+gould+architecture&form=IGRE&first=1&cw=1305&ch=634
"...Anglo-American pseudomorphosis lays heavily over the world because Anglo-American hegemony is still the dominant political force globally, though it’s fading fast. Once our hegemony is over and done with, our cultural forms will bre junked or mutated into unrecognizable forms in a generation or two over much of the world."

John Michael Greer

Sunday, February 16, 2020

https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uuuploads/big-blocks-of-flats-in-china/china-blocks-of-flats-2.jpg


People have been brainwashed about what the future must be like , and spectacles like this have clearly been normalized. But at a time when crowding is exacerbating a virus pandemic, one hopes that "futuristic" scenarios like this will will fade away.

Monday, February 3, 2020

WOOD

https://environment.yale.edu/news/article/can-wood-buildings-convert-cities-from-carbon-source-to-carbon-vault/?utm_source=YaleToday&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=YT_YaleNews%20-%20Alumni%20From%20Peoplehub_2-3-2020

...merely to point out that wood is back. It breathes. It sequesters carbon. It probably beats concrete on aesthetics. But please let's save the colonial wooden buildings we have now.

Sunday, February 2, 2020

GLOBAL WARMING

Scientists generally don't know what they're talking about, so I'm not looking to them for ultimate answers. They have to keep working and need a positive spin. But I believe global warming can be dealt with in a much better way than at present, and that better way requires an end to deforestation and devegetation through building development.