Sociecity

The uniqueness of Blues Guesthouse in Seoul, South Korea, is in the amazingly peaceful location (for Seoul) and the neat rooftop garden which helps provide food for guests when the plants are in season.

The new generation doesn’t want to drive a 50 mile commute, to be wedded to a car, they’d rather spend their time doing other things, living close to where they work, being able to walk, bike, and/or have an easy transit trip.

Silicon Valley’s City Center is in the middle of one of the great innovation capitals of the modern world to be sure, but when it comes to sustainable development, the city has traditionally been a perfect example of what not to do. How does San Jose go from suburbia to eco-utopia?

There are those who know well
the nature of humans;

of our shortsightedness
and of our lust

A Copenhagen study finds that cars offers a $0.20 net economic loss for each mile driven, bicycles offer a $0.35 net gain. This city of 1.2 million sets an example for the world, but are they happy about their position atop bicycle-meccas? Nope.

At one point, Silicon Valley had an extensive privately owned and operated streetcar system. Where did it go, and is there still hope for re-building transit oriented developments in a smart, forward-thinking way?

Thirty-five miles up the Hudson River outside of New York City sits the Indian Point Nuclear Power Facility. The two active nuclear reactors here were built in the 1970s and currently provide about 13% of the power used in New York City, with the remainder of the 2,000 megawatts generated here being used elsewhere in [...]

There really is a scholarship out there for everything. The folks at California Population Awareness are hosting an award contest for students who produce the best material on the state’s “unsustainable population problem.” The contest declares “Think about it. More people mean more cars on the road, so more traffic, longer commutes and more air pollution.” The [...]

How Superstardom Discourages the Cultivation of New Creative Talent. We are both amazingly fortunate, and woefully unfortunate to live this day, in a world where superstardom exists.

Besides gaining ultra-buff legs, many ‘part-time’ bike commuters end up with an extra  $12,400 at the end of the year. Earlier this month, I wrote a piece about how Rush Hour can Save you Money, it compared a typical Silicon Valley commute using a car, and the same commute using a bicycle. At the end [...]