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VARGOCITY: March 2012
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012. A lot has been said lately about Apple, in particular the company's labor practices in China. More specifically, exposés on Foxconn, the electronics super-manufacturer that makes most of the gadgets we use everyday. There was this one from Charles Duhigg. A the New York Times as part of a larger set on the iEconomy. It includes a great little cartoon on the iPhone here. At about the same time This American Life had a show focused on the one-man monologue of a Mike Daisy. In addit...
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VARGOCITY: Tiny Libraries
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Monday, April 15, 2013. Regular readers who have been with me since long, long ago may remember a discussion while in Bogotà about their mobile and distributed libraries. I am happy to report that I have found something similar in Madison. Here, The Little Free Library. Is everywhere: at the park, the grocery store, in tons of front yards. Books rotate in and out, you take what you're interested in an leave your old books if you wanna pass them on to others. From the Wisconsin Magazine.
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VARGOCITY: You'd Hate Living in Madison's Most Bikeable Neighborhoods
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Wednesday, May 29, 2013. You'd Hate Living in Madison's Most Bikeable Neighborhoods. National Bike Month is almost finished. Last week B and I stopped along the bike path on several mornings to enjoy some free breakfast. If you happened to see " America's Most Bikeable Neighborhoods. Let's start with the bottom and work out way to the top. The neighborhood known as Brittingham Apartments. Nice work here vargo - we have a tendency to take a list anyone puts together at face value. you should send this...
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VARGOCITY: June 2013
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Friday, June 14, 2013. Plastic Trees - Redux. An environmental economics professor of mine. Posits that if you want to preserve forests, you should stop recycling paper. The logic goes that the production of paper is what maintains the management of those places you now call forests and without it, they'd become tomorrow's suburbs. (hmmm, that could be a good name for something down the road) Here are a couple more developed arguments about this topic ( Recycling is Garbage. It is clear that we are not r...
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VARGOCITY: Better Know THE FIGHTIN' 2ND!!
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Monday, June 10, 2013. Better Know THE FIGHTIN' 2ND! I live in Madison with my wife, Lauren. I study how cities can help make us healthier - or how we could make cities without creating less healthy environments. I like taking my time and just a little bit of yours. Contact me. View my complete profile. Dirty South Beer Club. Blogged, not Stirred. Plastic Trees - Redux. Better Know THE FIGHTIN 2ND! Simple template. Powered by Blogger.
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VARGOCITY: Housing Update
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013. I have heard from several readers (aka friends, since only my friends read this blog) since posting about our housing woes. Thanks for the support. I am happy(? To report that we've found, not one but two places to live. First, I am excited to say that we're making the big move to the East Side of Madison - to the Schenk-Atwood neighborhood. We were able to find a single family home that WANTS. Have people line up for over a year to be your customers. Charge whatever you want.
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VARGOCITY: Housing
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Monday, May 13, 2013. Even with my own headaches around housing in Madison, I still like to open the paper on Sunday and dream about the beautiful and luxurious city dwellings being offered in the high priced advertising space (as seen above). The New York Times recently labeled the people who actually get to occupy these spaces in real life " the Stratospherians. How frustrating and disappointing, Vargo. Im really sad that youre finding yourself in this awful situation.AGAIN! Ps - that was katy. I live ...
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VARGOCITY: Back up to Devil's Lake
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Wednesday, May 01, 2013. Back up to Devil's Lake. I love this post! We should go back there for a picture every 6 months. I live in Madison with my wife, Lauren. I study how cities can help make us healthier - or how we could make cities without creating less healthy environments. I like taking my time and just a little bit of yours. Contact me. View my complete profile. Dirty South Beer Club. Blogged, not Stirred. Youd Hate Living in Madisons Most Bikeable Neigh. Back up to Devils Lake.
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VARGOCITY: Fake Plastic Trees
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Thursday, June 06, 2013. With humanity’s recent foray into 400ppm territory. Of course finding that much money and building these trees to capture that much CO2 is just part of the problem. Where do you put all these fake trees? Some ideas focus on changing the chemical composition of the ocean (more than we already are) to stimulate CO2 uptake by certain organisms. Reading more about these ideas and innovations is more depressing than inspiring. The people working hardest on these projects will be t...