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What Have I Learned from Sandy? Resilience Begins in Responsibility
I phrase it as a question because, though, considered as a weather event, hurricane Sandy is over and done with, as a psycho-cultural-historical event, it is only in the early phases of its life. In an...
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How to get ready for 2016 – Salon.com
This article is oriented toward standard-issue party politics, which isn’t TnT’s cup of tea. The suggestions presume it. But the general advice is sound, start working now for 2016: Take a week, take a...
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The Real Estate Deal That Could Change the Future of Everything –...
Why the real estate industry sucks: Investors primarily concerned with a quick return have given us what real estate developer Chris Leinberger calls a disposable built environment. We’ve taken a...
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GOOD: Global Organization of Democracies
Here’s a triple, a trifecta, a trinity, from Charlie Keil. It’s about a Global Organization of Democracies (GOOD). Let him explain it. An Open Letter to Citizens of the World Dear Citizen: I think we...
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The Great State of Northern Virginia
The USofA is too tightly connected. More states would help: Competitive federalism has many advantages. Citizens can move to communities that better reflect their preferences for public goods, they...
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Christopher Mitchell: We Need Spectrum for Our Communities | Mag-Net
Now, as the federal government decides how to allocate new spectrum that is becoming available, it has to make a decision. Should additional spectrum go to the big wireless carriers, should it expand...
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City Diplomacy - Organisation - City, Diplomacy, Sponsorship, UCLG,...
Seems a bit like C. Keil’s Global Organization of Democracies. Founded in May 2004, United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) is the united voice and world advocate of democratic local...
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Why Victory Gardens Still Matter — Bonnie Plants
We need our own gardens so we can be victorious against agri-business. Today, people are gardening for all sorts of victories: saving money, sharing with others, teaching themselves or their kids a...
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New seasons with new names – Roger Ebert’s Journal
Reget Ebert has seen lots of documentaries about global warming, and he’s scared. Sally Potter’s new film centers on two teenage British girls (Elle Fanning and Alice Englert ) who get involved in the...
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Math Models Seek to Prevent Network Failures | Simons Foundation
There’s a mathematical form to systems too big to succeed: Three years ago, Stanley and his colleagues discovered the mathematics behind what he calls “the extreme fragility of interdependency.” In a...
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Ideas to Bolster Power Grid Run Up Against the System’s Many Owners –...
Our current power grid is a balkanized mess owned and operated by 500 different entities. It needs to be redesigned and rebuilt. But we also need to allow for resilience at the local level so...
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How I Found a Home in Jersey City and Got Steve Fulop Elected Mayor, Part 2
By the end of the first part of this essay I’d made my way to Jersey City and bought a point-and-shoot camera. Jersey City was where I lived, but not my home. I had no home, unless it would be the...
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I Want to Be a Mayor – NYTimes.com
Smaller is better. In fact, if you want to be an optimist about America today, stand on your head. The country looks so much better from the bottom up — from its major metropolitan areas — than from...
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Jersey City, a Photo Essay
If you had to portray Jersey City in only a dozen photographs, what photos would you choose? I took a crack at that this morning and failed. It took me sixteen photos. Here they are, with light...
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Devolution: the basics | DEVOLUTION MATTERS
Aka smaller is better. In essence, devolution is a way of enabling Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to have forms of self-government within the United Kingdom. The UK Parliament has conferred...
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Bottom-Up Climate Fix – NYTimes.com
YES! A thousand times YES! The top is busted, we must start from the bottom. Change starts in the community. As one of those who, as an official at the Environmental Protection Agency, negotiated that...
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Where’s the World Headed & the Rise of Cities, a Quickie
Scotland recently came close to pulling out of Great Britain. What’s that about? As the day of the vote drew near I’d see stories on the theme: If Scotland goes, what next? Catalonia? Quebec? Vermont?...
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From Tibet to Taiwan, China’s Outer Regions Watch Hong Kong Protests Intently...
BEIJING — As hundreds of protesters continue to occupy the streets of Hong Kong, challenging China’s Communist Party leaders with calls for greater democracy, much of the world anxiously awaits signs...
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Seeking Identity, ‘Hong Kong People’ Look to City, Not State – NYTimes.com
HONG KONG — If there is one phrase that has come to define the protests that have swept across Hong Kong in the last week and a half, appearing on handwritten billboards and T-shirts, and heard in...
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The Economist explains: How Palestine might become a state | The Economist
As a form of territorial governance, the nation-state emerged in Western Europe some time during the last 1000 years. Just when and where depends, of course, on just what you think qualifies as a...
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