modernity in motion

Apr 10

“Bright green lives will not look like the lives we live today. That doesn’t mean that they’ll be less attractive. On the contrary. If we do it right both our quality of life and our measurable prosperity may increase dramatically. Showing how and why this can happen is one of my major obsessions at the moment. But there is a side to this transition which is less science than art: understanding how we can reconnect with one another and our better selves. We stay pretty far from the woo-woo here on Worldchanging, but I also believe that to ignore the intangible, creative, emotional, even spiritual aspects of this transformation is to fail.” WorldChanging: Neighborliness, Innovation and Sustainability

The Potential of Agroecology to Combat Hunger in the Developing World

Apr 9

GOOD Magazine | Goodmagazine - Thar She Grows

Mar 5

fuck90% of korean food

click the title for a good summation of why korean food is some meddlesome. (it’s a nice cartoon from XKCD.) i’ve been thinking about this quality of korean food for some time and i thoght: there must be a way to represent the trade-offs between delicious and difficult.

now there is. yay for math.

there’s some delicious korean food. like galbi or bibimbap. but then the rest of it is just… you know, like a lot of fucking grapefruit.

it tastes good initially, but then it burns my face.

or it tastes good really and truly, but i have to use scissors a knife tongs chopsticks and a spoon — all at once — to eat it. plus i’m sittng cross-legged.

or, worst of all, it doesn’t taste good, it’s tricky to eat, and it’s not terribly healthy — like acorn jelly.