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David Allan's Blog – September 2011 Archive (3)
Park(ing) day
PARK(ing) Day: Reclaiming Our Streets from Our Cars
by Yves Engler and Bianca Mugyenyi
On Friday activists and artists will be celebrating PARK(ing) Day in hundreds of cities around the world.
Begun in San Francisco six years ago the aim of the annual event is “to temporarily transform metered parking spaces into “‘PARK(ing)’ spaces: temporary public places.” Organizers generally add benches or fake grass to pieces of public property usually taken up by a private car.… Continue
by Yves Engler and Bianca Mugyenyi
On Friday activists and artists will be celebrating PARK(ing) Day in hundreds of cities around the world.
Begun in San Francisco six years ago the aim of the annual event is “to temporarily transform metered parking spaces into “‘PARK(ing)’ spaces: temporary public places.” Organizers generally add benches or fake grass to pieces of public property usually taken up by a private car.… Continue
Added by David Allan on September 15, 2011 at 6:57pm — No Comments
quote of the day
We are privileged to live at the most exciting moment of creative opportunity in the whole of the human experience. Now is the hour. We have the power to turn this world around for the sake of ourselves and our children for generations to come. We are the ones we have been waiting for.
--David Korten
--David Korten
Added by David Allan on September 8, 2011 at 10:48am — No Comments
blog of note
"What we need to build is a new economy, Economy B, underneath the old one."
http://greateconomictransition.blogspot.com/
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Added by David Allan on September 2, 2011 at 1:09pm — No Comments
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