Vancouver’s living roof
Vancouver’s 6 Acre Living Roof from Dave Budge on Vimeo. It’s a 6 acre coastal grassland on the roof of the Vancouver Convention center and functions as a habitat area.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Month August 2009
How to stop hecklers and troublemakers at meetings
The Blue Voice gets it right in Why Democrats get steamrolled. It’s because they don’t fight back. As witness their current shrieking about all those horrid right wingers at town hall meetings, and not actually doing anything about it. The…
SEC to ban flash trades
U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer (D-NY) announced Tuesday that the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has personally assured him that the agency plans to ban the practice of so-called “flash trading” that gives advance knowledge of stock…
The next bubble: Priming the markets for tomorrow’s big crash
Harper’s Magazine That the Internet and housing hyperinflations transpired within a period of ten years, each creating trillions of dollars in fake wealth, is, I believe, only the beginning. There will and must be many more such booms, for without…
Floating tidal turbine docks for New York
This innovative plan proposes floating docks that plug into existing piers to generate power via tidal turbines and provide park-like areas.