This new slogan — “It’s not warming, it’s dying” — is bad in so many ways.
Source: grist.org
Milton Glaser’s latest geography campaign is not like the uplifting, “I ♥ NY”. It is quite the opposite. "it’s not warming, it’s dying" is his response to what is happening to our planet. This article also pin points the insights of some other very wise and funny people.
On a refugee application recently accepted by New Zealand, a Tuvalu family claimed they’d be forced out by global warming if they returned home.
Source: www.upi.com
We will not be in time to stop the effects of global warming. But we can find ways to receive refugees and provide them with a new homeland.
New Zealand accepts a refugee family from Tuvalu hoping to escape their sinking island nation.
Source: grist.org
We won’t be in time to stop global warming. But there is always time to stop adding to its affect and help those already impacted by it.
A Colorado program diverges from the “Housing First” mainstream
Source: www.washingtonpost.com
Not the popular solution to homelessness that ‘Housing first is, this ‘isolated in the middle of nowhere approach’ may provide some very positive support to long term recovery.
“Perhaps most readily associated with a patently American 1950s nostalgia – recalling varsity football game nights, wholesome cheerleaders, and spiffy sock hops – saddle shoes (or oxfords) were actually first conceived as a men’s athletic golfing shoe in the early 1900s. During the 1930’s stagflation, saddle shoes swiftly became a unisex sensation when high school girls deemed them ideal for the snazzy new Jitterbug’s accompanying acrobatics, sliding, and spinning.”
Source: lulamag.com
I have always loved saddle shoes, had them in high school and still have a pair now.
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Just like Hobby Lobby, Eden Foods has sued the Obama administration, claiming its owner’s religious rights should trump employees’ rights to access contraception.
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Has this country gone mad? Are we regressing to a place we fought so hard to get beyond? What is this reactionary craziness
? We have the constitution right to keep church and state separate. What does SCOTUS plan to do? Return us to a ‘church state’? This is the real issue and it really concerns those of us who are conscious that this is the direction things seem to be going in and will go in if people do not wake up in time.
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The pastor who has run the much-criticized Safe Haven shelter is resigning, and a proposal for an alternative shelter is under discussion.
How to solve homelessness is controversial. There is no simple or quick answer.
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The Koch Bothers buy PBS’ silence. Citizen Koch will not air on PBS TV. How disappointing that PBS, the pillar of ‘public owned’ TV, caved in to their pressure. How public is PBS or are they the private domain of The Koch Brothers and other millionaire donors.
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Do you want to feel good? Do you want someone else to feel good? It is well known that flowers have a positive impact on us. Why do we bring flowers to raise someone’s spirits when they are sick or down?
Flowers are like angels incarnate.
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Downtown Los Angeles’s historic core is about to get its first major museum, if that’s what you want to call it.
Only minutes on the freeway from Malibu and Rodeo drive, downtown Historic Los Angeles is a million miles away. Its core is about to get its first museum. Although personally, I think Downtown LA, itself is a museum.
See on architecturelab.net
