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Impractical Proposals
http://ImpracticalProposals.blogspot.com
Notes on politics and culture by John Gabree
- Added on: Aug 6th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: manonthebeach
- Listed in: Politics Activism
- Tags: progressive activism democracy accountability social justice economic justice
Recent Posts
The Livable City: Parks & Rec
My second book, a collection of essays intended to deliver the insights generated by the social sciences to students and practitioners of the design professions, had on its cover a photograph of a popular Manhattan minipark, part of a program origina...
Begging the Question: "The only nonnegotiable principle here is success." -- Rahm Emanuel
Accountability: Congress should take back its constitutionally mandated role in making military policy
Despite Newsweek's silly cover story this week on The Post-Imperial Presidency (for starters, Newsweek might look at plans for military expansion in Africa, the takeover of air facilities in Columbia, the exponential growth of our military presence o...
Clip File: Tech Porn - The Osprey finally goes to war
"CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan -- When a couple of MV-22 Osprey tilt rotors joined a fleet of CH-53 helicopters, dropping out of the predawn darkness Friday in the northern end of the Now Zad valley in Helmand Province to deliver the first of more th...
Clip File: Wrecked town points the way to economic recovery
With all eyes on US efforts to combat climate change at next week's UN summit in Copenhagen, one Kansas town is going green in a big way -- and setting an example for American communities.The U.S. dominated the world economy in the 1950s and 1960s pa...
Clip File: Primum non nocere
Shouldn't there be some form of Hippocratic Oath for planners, designers and architects?It is as tragic as it is absurd that we are eating the dust of Europe and Asia in the development of green technology. Take this light 'triple-zero' house in the ...
