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Jeff Speck on the “walkability dividend”

By Mark | January 7, 2013

I hesitate to post one more article about how great Portland is, as doing so just makes me feel that much worse about this state in which I’m currently trapped, but I just happened across a short interview between Richard “I speak for the creative class” Florida and Jeff Speck, the author of the new [...]

Posted in Observations, Other, Rail, Uncategorized | Also tagged Big 3, bike lanes, Border to Border Trail, bulldoze the suburbs, car culture, CEOs for Cities, city planning, creative class, fringe suburbs, Joe Cortright, New Urbanism, Portland, Richard Florida, suburbs, urban growth boundary, urban planning, walkability, Washtenaw Biking and Walking Coalition, Ypsi-Ann, Ypsi-Ann Interurban | 7 Comments

Agenda 21… Are America’s city planners in on the United Nations plot to enslave us, and force us onto bicycles?

By Mark | November 26, 2012

There’s only one thing people on the far right hate more than the United Nations, and that’s the United Nations setting international guidelines for sustainable development. I learned this a few days ago, while listening to a special episode of Glenn Beck’s radio program about a secret UN initiative to deal with the looming threats [...]

Posted in Environment, History, Observations, Other, Politics, Predictions, Rants, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1984, 1992, Agenda 21, Alabama, ALEC, American Legislative Exchange Council, anti-environment, Arizona, bike lanes, Chip Rogers, city planning, competing visions for the future of America, concentration camps, Conference on Environment and Development, conspiracy theories, corporatocracy, Delphi, deregulation, dyptopia, Earth Summit, Emmeline, fear mongering, Field Searcy, Georgia, Georgia State Senate, Glenn Beck, global climate change, Global Warming, Harriet Parke, mind control, paranoia, rationing, regulation, Republican National Committee, Republican platform, RNC, sprawl, suburbs, survival seeds, tea party, the collapse of the Republican party, the future of America, The Handmaid's Tale, the hijacking of the Republican party, the threat of Socialism, traffic circles, United Nations, urban sprawl | 26 Comments

Anonymous Lansing insider speaks out on the disappointment of Snyder

By Mark | April 2, 2012

A few days ago, I received the following note from an individual who identified himself as working ‘inside the belly of the beast,’ in Lansing. I followed up with the questions below, and, given his responses, and a few other things that he mentioned, I have no reason to believe that he’s lying about his [...]

Posted in Michigan, Politics, Rail | Also tagged anonymous sources, anti-science, Bill Milliken, domestic partner benefits, Gary Peters, gay demonization, gay rights, Gretchen Driskell, Gretchen Whitmer, homophobia, job creation, Lansing, Mark Ouimet, Michigan by Rail, Michigan House of Representatives, Michigan Senate, Obama, partisan politics, Rick Snyder, tea party, those anti-science Republicans, voting, Voting Rights Act | 10 Comments

Dr. Guy McPherson, making the case for living off-grid in Ypsilanti

By Mark | February 18, 2012

Later today, at 6:00 PM, University of Arizona emeritus professor of Natural Resources and the Environment Guy McPherson will be speaking at the Gilbert Residence in Ypsilanti (203 South Huron Street) about his new book, Walking Away from Empire, and the steps that he’s taken to extract himself from what he sees as an American [...]

Posted in Education, Environment, Politics, Sustainability | Also tagged American Empire, anarchy, barter, big-government savior state, building with straw bales, community building, conservation, decent human community, defining community, dystopia, economic collapse, gas tax, gift economy, global climate change, Global Warming, Guy McPherson, health care, intentional community, Jevons' paradox, Jim Kunstler, Khazzoom-Brookes postulate, Mad Max, maintaining body temperature, New Mexico, off-grid, organic gardening, peak oil, personal responsibility, straw bales, University of Arizona, Walking Away from Empire, water, when the shit hits the fan | 37 Comments

The Woodward light rail project is officially dead

By Mark | December 13, 2011

The following clip comes from the Detroit Free Press: The ambitious plan for a light-rail line on Woodward Avenue between downtown Detroit and 8 Mile has been scrapped in favor of a system of city and suburban buses, several officials briefed on the decision told the Free Press today. U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told [...]

Posted in Detroit, Rail | Also tagged busses, Dave Bing, Emergency Financial Manager, light rail, Megan Owens, Ray LaHood, Rick Snyder, Transportation Riders United, Woodward | 19 Comments

Tag Archives: mass transit

Jeff Speck on the “walkability dividend”

Agenda 21… Are America’s city planners in on the United Nations plot to enslave us, and force us onto bicycles?

Anonymous Lansing insider speaks out on the disappointment of Snyder

Dr. Guy McPherson, making the case for living off-grid in Ypsilanti

The Woodward light rail project is officially dead

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