{"id":1747,"date":"2011-05-06T10:02:21","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T15:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/?p=1747"},"modified":"2011-05-06T10:05:39","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T15:05:39","slug":"peripatetic-cyber-peregrinations-may-4-7-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/peripatetic-cyber-peregrinations-may-4-7-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Peripatetic Cyber-Peregrinations May 4 &#8211; 7, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My random perusals&#8230;.updated periodically.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"NYT: &quot;On Small Farms, Hoof Power Returns,&quot; by Tess Taylor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/04\/dining\/04oxen.html?emc=eta1\" target=\"_blank\">There are <em>always<\/em> alternatives to fossils!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Center for New Urbanism\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnu.org\/node\/3697\" target=\"_blank\">June 1 &#8211; 4 \u00a0New Urbanism conference<\/a>&#8211;Learn about how to make sprawl pretty! Ok, I&#8217;ll be nice. Maybe they have some good ideas. But over the years of watching development projects come through the city, I&#8217;ve come to the conclusion that for the most part, the New Urbanist concepts just get co-opted and buzzworded to death by developers who have no intention of ever actually putting the concepts into practice. But the words sound good, and by saying them during presentations at city commissions, they sail on through. Lipstick on a pig, as it were.<\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin\" href=\"http:\/\/bfw.org\/index.php\">Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin <\/a>jettisoned all the Madison &#8220;radicals&#8221; &#8212; even going so far as to purge their website of all evidence of any bike activism in the 1990s &#8212; in order to cozy up to the rightist businessmen&#8230;.<a title=\"JSOnline: &quot;State panel repeals regional transit groups: It also eliminates state funding for bike paths,&quot; By Patrick Marley and Don Walker\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/statepolitics\/121196218.html\">Wonder how that&#8217;s working out for them?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"ClimateStoryTellers.org: &quot;DEEP GREEN RESISTANCE: Strategy to Save the Planet,&quot; By Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith and Aric McBay\" href=\"http:\/\/www.climatestorytellers.org\/stories\/jensen-keith-mcbay-deep-green-resistance\/\" target=\"_blank\">A powerful piece <\/a>on how nature &#8212; the earth &#8212; is up against it, thanks to our gluttony.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My random perusals&#8230;.updated periodically. There are always alternatives to fossils! June 1 &#8211; 4 \u00a0New Urbanism conference&#8211;Learn about how to make sprawl pretty! Ok, I&#8217;ll be nice. Maybe they have some good ideas. But over the years of watching development projects come through the city, I&#8217;ve come to the conclusion that for the most part, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,5,91,13,1],"tags":[969,965,966,971,970,967,968,165,972],"class_list":["post-1747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-business","category-environment","category-perspectives-on-american-gluttony","category-politics","category-uncategorized","tag-aric-mcbay","tag-bicycle-federation-of-wisconsin","tag-center-for-new-urbanism","tag-climate-storytellers","tag-deep-green-resistance","tag-derrick-jensen","tag-lierre-keith","tag-new-york-times","tag-tess-taylor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1747"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1755,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions\/1755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}