Shopping: The Real American Revolution
If you were a typical American living in the early part of the nineteenth
century, you had to plant, tend, harvest, slaughter, and process your own
food. You had to make your own ...READ»
The first time I went to the White House I was in grade school. This was back in the 1970s, when my family was in Washington, D.C., on vacation, and public tours were easy to arrange. My next visit, two decades later, was as a ...READ»
Walter Hood transforms run-of-the-mill public spaces—city parks, highway underpasses—into pillars of the communities they serve. His goal: to prove that every place, and every person, can benefit from good design.READ»
The coal industry is begging for new rules and fighting existing ones.
Eight years of inconsistent oversight by the Bush administration left a
cobweb regulatory framework neither companies nor courts can decipher.
But while the ...READ»
The real-life, blonde precursor to Nickelodeon's iCarly, Justine Ezarik, finds her way onto scads of screens with a breezy style and a deep understanding of influence.READ»
Like a bunch of sex-crazed celebrities, bridge builders are talking rehab -- the kind that repairs a crumbling infrastructure. Stingy banks and a teetering economy have slowed new projects in the U.S., but there are plenty of bridges ...READ»
The announcement that the 2014 Super Bowl will take place in New York has raised eyebrows for one big reason: weather.
Of the decision, Greg Cote of the Miami Herald wrote: “The NFL, with this open-air Jersey Super Bowl, has ...READ»
It's time once again for Nalgene's annual ranking of America's most and least wasteful cities, a list based on a survey that measures waste, sustainability efforts, shopping habits,
transportation, and reuse of items among 3,750 ...READ»
Radio-and-TV personality Adam Carolla stumbled into podcasting and immediately became its No. 1 star. Now he's launching his own broadcasting network. Inside the messy birth of a new medium.READ»
So it's come to this: Unable to provide basic services for all of his constituents, Detroit mayor Dave Bing is drafting plans starve his city down to a manageable size. Using proprietary data and a survey released by Data Driven ...READ»
An inescapable trend in 2009, especially for city-dwellers, is that of the food truck. (Being in a recession didn't hurt.) Enter RoamingHunger.com, the first nationwide food truck tracker. READ»
Poor the Google. Just when it thought it was safe to wheel out those trikes from the GoogleBunker, having won a privacy invasion case against Mr. and Mrs. Boring of Pittsburgh (I kid you not) then someone else starts having a go at ...READ»
This interview was conducted during research for my book, Viral Loop. You can read an excerpt here at Fast Company, or find out what your friends are really worth by installing the Viral Loop widget.
In 2002, Caterina Fake (her ...READ»
Protesters at last month's G20 meeting were arrested due to allegedly criminal Tweets. Their attorney is defending the two men by saying they were merely relaying public info. Now the courts will have to decide: Is Tweeting an offense?READ»
I'm a senior at Cal State Northridge, I'm a health and sciences major. I grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where I worked at a rubber manufacturing plant. I now volunteer at the Health Services Center here on campus, where I am very ...READ»
Not only effective in reducing energy use, a vertically scaled garden, or living wall injects a shot of green into gray urban streetscapes. Last week we wrote about North America's largest largest living wall, designed by Kari ...READ»
I guess military tech always finds its way home. Pittsburgh city officials believe their police department's use of a Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) at last week's G20 protests was "the first time the sound cannon had been used ...READ»
We report on a lot of projects in the design and development stages, so it's always nice to hear from companies that have completed a green project. We first wrote about PNC Bank's plan to build the largest green living wall in the ...READ»
Friday, September 18, 2009
The Race from Bretton Woods
Poignancy will not be lost in
this edition of the strategist. I write to you this week from Bretton
Woods in
New Hampshire as I prepare to embark on a ...READ»
What if the best hospital designers are the patients themselves? At the brand new Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, the architects gave the patients and their families seats at the drafting table.READ»
