January 2012
19 posts
December 2011
8 posts
November 2011
15 posts
NYTimes: The Death of the Fringe Suburb →
secretrepublic:
“Drive through any number of outer-ring suburbs in America, and you’ll see boarded-up and vacant strip malls, surrounded by vast seas of empty parking spaces. These forlorn monuments to the real estate crash are not going to come back to life, even when the economy recovers. And that’s because the demand for the housing that once supported commercial activity in many exurbs isn’t...
Watchwhat a season it was…
October 2011
12 posts
Service. Quality. Community.
thatwhichsurroundsme:
We’ve been talking a lot about buying local as much as we can. Better service. Better product. Better community. Here is everything from boots to cheeseburger cookers..
http://unionmadegoods.com/
http://www.acontinuouslean.com/the-american-list/
Diet soda, diabetes, and obesity →
There’s nothing “diet” about diet sodas. After all, studies have linked them to metabolic syndrome, diabetes, heart problems, and more.
And now, yet another study confirms that people who drink the most diet soda have the biggest bellies.
Researchers from the University of Texas medical school examined data on 474 seniors who took part in the San Antonio Longitudinal Study of Aging, and found...