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The healthy housing program we had set up had helped thousands of children and adults like Veronica. We had worked with a community partner to set up a produce stand and resource guide to help families experiencing hunger and food insecurity. A medical-legal partnership we had created shortly after I started at the clinic was blossoming. Thousands
... See moreRishi Manchanda • The Upstream Doctors: Medical Innovators Track Sickness to Its Source (Kindle Single) (TED Books)
Katja Vujić • Is Somewhere Good the Future of Social Media?
Spencer Chang • tiny internets: sidewalks, geocaching, and more · tiny internets
Parks are dead and artificial. Farms, when treated as private property, rob the people of their natural biological heritage-the countryside from which they came.
Christopher Alexander • A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
Omaere Foundation, which she leads,
David George Haskell • The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors
emulating nature’s life-temperature, low-pressure, solar-powered assembly techniques, whose products rival anything human-made.
Paul Hawken • Natural Capitalism
The ongoing work of making the spaces in which we live cultivates a kind of alchemy, in which stronger links between people and place can arise.
Joanna Hoffman • Futures From Ruins
The industrial values of specialization, economies of scale, and mechanization wind up crowding out ecological values such as diversity, complexity, and symbiosis.