Food Inc.
After Fast Food Nation, Robert Kenner lifts again the veil on American nations food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of governments regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA.
Filed Under Environment, Food, Modern Life, Social Communication, Water, World Health
Squatters of the World Unite!
Squatting involves using loopholes in local laws to build and occupy housing, free of charge. While a streak of anarchic activism has always run through squatters, in some cases they can create social problems, or give indirect support to crime and drug-dealing. Regardless of its consequences, squatters are a global phenomenon, and they usually find themselves in the middle of conflicts between local populations and the companies and governments of a globalizing and gentrifying world.Author Robert Neuwirth has written a bestselling book on the squatting phenomenon, and edits what is possibly one of the most comprehensive squatting-related blogs over at Squattercity. From the century-long occupation of flats in an expensive district of London, from the Brazilian favelas to the newly-spreading “tent cities” in depression-stricken America, this blog is a must-see.
Filed Under Diversity, Environment, Human Rights, Modern Life
The Future is a Thing of the Past
Perhaps the only certain prediction about the future is that all predictions will be false. This, however, has not stopped people from trying. Ranging from dreams of giant electric ships plying the world’s skies in the 1800s to the 1980s commercials where computers and automation make life endlessly convenient, the Paleo-Future blog has an incredibly diverse selection of plausible, fantastic, dark, utopic, or just plain weird future visions. I wonder how many of our future predictions will be left standing in fifteen, twenty-five years’ time.
Filed Under Design, History & traditions, Media & Society, Modern Life
Another wall
Rio de Janeiro government decided to build walls around 11 favelas.
The minds behind the idea say the intention is to protect the rainforest. The residents say it is a way to segregate them from the rest of society.
I say it’s surreal that we are still building physical barriers to solve either social or environmental problems.
Wouldn’t those 40 million reais spent on the walls do better invested in Education?
Filed Under Environment, Human Rights, Modern Life, Politics
L’Aquila, 3:32 am
Filed Under Art, Creativity, Environment, Modern Life
Connection
Via Dis.amb.ig.uando
Filed Under Diversity, Environment, Modern Life, Politics, Social Communication
Isn’t it time someone called cut?
Two women die from domestic violence every week.
Help Women’s Aid.
Filed Under Marketing, Modern Life, Politics, Social Communication