Day March 20, 2007

Success through failure?

Casey Serin, who bought eight house in eight months with no money down by, well, making shit up, has now lost most of his homes and will unquestionably lose all of them. So what’s he doing on his blog? Planning…

Major rivers are drying up

“Rivers regularly no longer reach the sea, like the Indus in Pakistan, the Nile in Africa and the Rio Grande … There are millions of people whose livelihoods are at risk,” said Jamie Pittock, director of WWF’s global freshwater programme.…

Garbage as a design flaw

A goal for many companies and cities now is to eliminate garbage completely. Seriously. The deeper purpose here is to change the way things are made. “From our perspective, waste doesn’t need to exist,” says San Francisco’s Blumenfeld. “It’s a…