Once again, the Danes are named the happiest people on the planet.
Why is this? and what can we learn from their success?
Some folks say it’s the bikes. In Copenhagen, one third of commutes happen on bikes, one third on public transportation, one third in automobiles.
This clip from “Contested Streets” shows some of what makes [...]
Danish Happiness and the City 07.04.08
Undergound Logistics Ahead? 04.07.08
Trucking traffic is a huge problem in Calgary and Canada and much more so in Europe. It stinks, it’s dangerous, it assumes an unnecessarily large physical and environmental footprint, it is inefficient and expensive — but it’s what the world uses to move goods.
Western European countries — wise to the myriad global warming, logistics, [...]
Slavoj Žižek on Democracy Now! 03.14.08
Slavoj Žižek on Democracy Now! — “Liberal democracy — we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today’s left effectively offers global capitalism with a human face, more tolerance, more rights and so on. So the question is, is this enough or not?”
Links 00006 02.22.08
Canada v. Israel: A United Nations military observer sent e-mails home to Canada reporting that Israel was bombing schools and waging “a campaign of terror against the Lebanese people” shortly before he was killed by an Israeli bomb in Lebanon.
Beautiful ad for the Madrid Metro — The city as seen from the underground. [via Kottke]
Third [...]
Waving Goodbye to Hegemony 01.25.08
Hegemony or Survival? Perhaps the question has been already answered. America is doubtless on the decline and while the business and investment community has awoken to this fact, old media is waking up , too.
Parag Khanna writes in next week’s New York Times Magazine:
It is 2016, and the Hillary Clinton or John McCain or Barack [...]
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