Grids and Storage. I remember a time when I didn’t used to notice these things. Living in Japan in the late 1990s, I have a distinct memory of a friend — a mature student who’d previously served in the U.S….
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Yesterday’s write-up had me thinking more today about the origins of the drive-thru. The first one, according to Money magazine, was a hamburger joint called “Ten things you didn’t know about the fast food drive-thru” Red’s Giant Hamburger, in 1947….
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Petrofeminism: Has oil produced feminism? This is a question I’ve thought about a lot. And, I’ll admit: energy is finite. There is only so much of it in a day. And today I have none left, so, I’m posting an…
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Today, I spent some time thinking about how the exploitation of land and resources that has contributed to climate change is part of a more complicated set of problems informed by an extractivist world-view. This isn’t a new idea for…
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