Plastiki + Holding Up the Tent
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The Plastiki, a boat made entirely out recyclable plastics, set sail this Saturday from Sausalito Bay, near San Francisco.
Miers Van der Rohe’s birthday today. (March 27)
Visions of space (7 parts)
Miers Miers Van der Rohe .. this one rocks.
Photos taken from my neighborhood
A tent city economy grows in Haiti
The tent city, a former nine-hole golf course, is now home to 50,000 people. There is no way to make money except by selling goods or services right here. So a schoolteacher might open a candy stand. A government accountant might sell spices or batteries.
This is mixed news for Samard. She has more competition for her business, but also more choices as a consumer. Every day, she goes shopping, tent to tent.
Watch Plastic bag by Ramin Bahrani – a sad story narrated by Werner Herzog.
Struggling with its immortality, a discarded plastic bag (voiced by Werner Herzog) ventures through the environmentally barren remains of America as it searches for its maker.