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There’s No Such Thing As Free Parking

Nothing new about this; shopping mall parking in 1958. Library of Virginia. Alex recently asked Can Great Design Redeem the Parking Garage? He was talking about a new parking structure by Herzog and de Meuron on Miami Beach’s Lincoln Road, which is a pedestrian street designed by Morris Lapidus . The late architect was fond of over-the-top glitz and in reaction to Mies Van Der Rohe’s “less… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Next Saturday We All Start Going Into Ecological Debt – Earth Overshoot Day 2010 is August 21st

photo: Dmytri Kleiner via flickr Here is the most succinct symbol of how humanity is using resources beyond the capacity of the planet to sustainable regenerate them, and is only increasing to do so: Global Footprint Network tells us that August 21, 2010 is Earth Overshoot Day –every single thing we collectively do past this date depletes environmental capital, puts us into ecological… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Next Saturday We All Start Going Into Ecological Debt – Earth Overshoot Day 2010 is August 21st