Month: January 2012
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Never Leave Home Without Your Geographer: Krugman, Gruber
In my daily dose of Krugman I really enjoyed this: China also derives big advantages from the fact that so much of the supply chain is already there. A former Apple executive explained: “You need a thousand rubber gaskets? That’s the factory next door. You need a million screws? That factory is a block away.”…
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Epic Fit to Print
Epic gets big NYT feature today. It’s just too bad Epic’s brilliant CEO couldn’t have found a way to integrate the company into the urban fabric. The paving of farmland and it’s car-necessary location negates all the groovy-green stuff going into that oh-so-pastoral office park. I know several long-time as well as newly-hired Epicureans, and…
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Pleasant’s Wrecking Ball
Pleasant & Co. wish to demolish the spirit of State Street.
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Nicole Foss: “The Great Recession, Energy Depletion, and Political Turmoil,” at Goodman TONIGHT
Nicole Foss will be speaking tonight at 7 at the Goodman Center (details below). She is quite a speaker. I went to see her when she was here back in 2010. Her thinking is amazing–bringing together economics, social relations, and the natural/physical world in one very all-encompassing view. She is very good at demonstrating–jargon-free–the physical/energy…