Consider what would happen if the Massachusetts state government enacted the following for all newly built public buildings:

1. Utilize natural architecture and pre-planning to take advantage of as much natural light as possible.
2. Use CFL/LED based lighting for everything else.
3. Implement 'superwindows' (more efficient than regular walls) ( Read more... )

The difference between the life I constantly imagine being in my future and the one I live on a daily basis are so completely disparate that it seems like I'm making up a whole other life in my head that I'm 'supposed' to have ( Read more... )

One of my biggest concerns is in cutting costs everywhere I possibly can. Interestingly enough, pushing these things to the extreme often leads to being healthier and greener ( Read more... )

Despite early religion being viewed as primitive and quaint, in a lot of ways it makes more sense than some of the religions we have today. Well, maybe not a lot of ways but at least in a few. Everytime I get outside of the city and far enough into the wilderness, I am still in awe of the array of stars that are out there. Just a few hundred years ( Read more... )

Probably not.
Which means I probably should have just bitten it and gone with the title I was originally thinking of, "Why current corporate structures are oppressive" but I don't think I could ever write that and feel ok about it afterwards.

So here goes
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a little less than a year ago I got an e-mail from my business statistics professor asking if I wanted to sign up for a new minor in "Data Analysis." It happens to be the most boring fucking name of all time for any education pursuit, and is the last thing I would want to mention when talking to hot babbes on St. Laurent on the weekends. I don't ( Read more... )

Mr. Paul Krugman has similar, more precise, and more articulate things to say about the subject.
This is the guy who, about 10 days ago or so, won the nobel prize in economics.

Notably, he places the time when the policies of divisiveness began:

"Forty years ago, Richard Nixon made a remarkable marketing discovery. By exploiting America’s ( Read more... )

Time to beat a dead horse, and take a quick break from all the econo-politico ranting.

Adbusters recently came out with this article and caused quite a stir among any and all self-denying hipsters out there. It was funny and successful to the extent that it got all of these people huffy. It was even given a pretty stark and devastating title: " ( Read more... )

The first:

Farmer in ChiefBy Michael Pollan. An article basically articulating many things I've wanted to say, and will touch on in a future post, but with more substantiality than I could ever put to it. It essentially highlights the problem of the food sector being the unsustainable industrialized behemoth that it has become; a result of the ( Read more... )

The original draft of the declaration of independence carried these lines. Property was later replaced with the more idealized and ambiguous word "happiness." It sits better over time and imbues the declaration with a sort of American optimism and grandeur that carries with it faith and sentiment that this country has always needed. The point that ( Read more... )