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Hard Cider Market Growing in the US; MSN Forgets it was America’s Drink Long...
Hard cider produced in Michigan. Credit: Wikipedia. I came across an article heralding the growing hard cider market on MSN (because that’s the site I always go to for deep, insightful commentary. AKA...
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Kids Who Don’t Need Nature
As I was listening to Q with Jian Ghomeshi last night, I realized how fortunate I was to live near a park. Ghomeshi’s guest, David Suzuki is a Canadian environmentalist, who is starting the 30×30...
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Solidarity: More Than Bread Alone.
Working with the Beaver Falls Community Development Corporation, we think a lot about how to unite a community, how to revitalize neighborhoods and businesses, and how to help residents live whole...
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I’m finding out about The Slow Web. Finally.
http://jackcheng.com/the-slow-web. “Real-time interactions happen as they happen. Timely ones, on the other hand, happen as you need them to happen. Some real-time interactions, like breaking news...
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A Populist Looks at the City
Let’s make no mistake about this: The American Dream starts with the neighborhoods. If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods. And to do that we must understand that the...
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Involuntary associations, democracy, and Twitter?
Twitter conversation map from http://kittenthebad.wordpress.com/ Voluntary associations, said Robert Putnam in his 2000 book Bowling Alone, have been in decline. People are not engaged in the civic...
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Work versus the weekend
Work-rest balance probably doesn’t look quite like this… My father, always the social non-conformer, remarked today that this week, he was actually looking forward to the weekend. And it brought back...
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Can you appropriate culture without exploitation?
Greg asked my thoughts on Sanaa Hamid’s photo collection titled “Cultural Appropriation: A conversation“, and particularly, ‘is there any space for cultural appropriation that’s not exploitative?’ My...
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Views on the Catholic Church and homosexuality
Today in a seminar with Dr. Adriaan van Klinken (Leeds) on religion, sexuality, and nationalism in Zambia, the position of the Catholic Church on homosexuality came up. Van Klinken noted that compared...
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Getting off the internet
Photo: What my desk looks like this week. Would it be cleaner if I was more focused? “I could be done by now, you know,” I told a dear friend tonight, talking about the essays I’m writing. But I’m not....
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