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Inhabitat This hip, colorfully painted shipping container city recently sprung up just outside of Mexico city. Created by a small community of businesses, the project features restaurants, gallery space, bars, funky stores and even living spaces constructed completely out of recycled shipping containers. Shipping containers are also being converted for use as emergency housing [...] Progressives appear to be worried the health care reform bill might pass, with Republicans getting some credit for it. Oh, shriek, we can’t have that. That this debate is even happening shows how poisoned the waters are on the current tepid bill. New Dem worry: GOP taking credit for health care reform Health care [...] Bernanke doesn’t have the votes to be reconfirmed and Geithner, having effectively being replaced by Volcker, is attacking Obama’s bank plan – something you’d hardly expect if he thought he’d be staying around. Hollywood Fwy near Vermont. On a good day. As judged by The Daily Beast, after a rigorous investigation. There were some serious contenders, but as usual L.A. came out on top yet again. #1, Hollywood Freeway, Los Angeles Weekly hours of bottleneck congestion: 686 Worst bottleneck: Southbound, Vermont Avenue Length of worst bottleneck: .64 [...] Guest post from my friend Bill Paparian on the betrayal of Armenians by the US Congress and Obama with their refusal to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide occurred. He is a former Mayor of Pasadena CA, Green Party Congressional candidate in 2006, and lawyer. I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution Take a bow [...] “If we are to be saved in an ark, as Noah and his family were, it will be because we build it.” —Brigham Young How much food should you have to be prepared for an emergency? The Mormon Church tells its members to store a year’s worth. You might think this excessive, but food [...] Dated nostalgia for populist movements and progressive government reform — that legacy thinking is utterly useless, as a strategy for success, given the rise of a dominant and sovereign global system that doesn’t have any governing body to appeal to. In other words, as the state continues to wither away, becoming increasingly useless for protection [...] Hey, if this populist crap doesn’t stop, we could both be job hunting soon Bernanke Senate confirmation in peril. The vote has been delayed, always a telling signal that the votes might not be there. Geithner reportedly told Wall Street that Obama is sacrificing good policy for politics. Most illuminatingly, Treasury has twice not [...] Treehugger has a slide show explaining how it’s done. It is hard to believe, but this “mountain hut” in Austria needs next to no heating; it is all done with body heat, cooking heat and passive solar heat. it is an example of a Passivhaus design. [...] Calculated Risk This chart shows the expected payment shock coming in 2010 and 2011 from Option ARMs. This chart includes projected increases in LIBOR (if LIBOR stays low, the shock will not be as high), and the recast due to reamortizing the loan over the remaining period. Subprime mortgages were the bulk [...] |
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