The Collapse of The American Dream Explained in Animation

finally watched this after having it sit on my chrome bookmarks bar for two years. 28mins.

In Organic We Trust — Change from the soil up.

screening this weds. 05.06.13 @SPUR urban center in SF (645 mission st).
5pm. free for SPUR members, $5 for non-members.

thelandofmaps:

The State of Deficient Bridges in the US [930x1350]

(via fuckyeahcartography)

Greenbelt Station’s (in Maryland at one end of Metro’s Green Line) parking lot has 3,399 all-day spaces and uses an area of 37 acres. ..at the average US household size of 2.6, almost 4,000 people could live in a small streets village that extends no further than the current boundaries of the parking lot. We’d still have plenty of room for buses, taxis, and Zipcars on the edges.

turn this parking lot into a village. smallstreets, 29.02.12.

thisbigcity:

Houston or SimCity? 

It’s Houston.

(Yes, the Google Maps graphics are a bit of a giveaway)

come on! let’s go play in the park! look at all the pretty trees in neat lines!

(Source: ecstasia)

Tree People video: Capture the Rain and Rebuild the Economy: It Can Happen Here! 

This fun animation shows how reconnecting trees to our city’s watersheds is one of the fastest ways to create lasting jobs while rebuilding local economies and preparing our communities to thrive and survive increasing threats of severe weather.

via the global arc.

(Source: dyatica, via humanscalecities)

climateadaptation:

How much water does it take to frack a gas well? About 4 Million gallons per well, equivalent amount of water 11,000 families use each day.

DEATH.

fracking’s gonna undo and fuck over all the efforts some people have been making to conserve water and energy.