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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.

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.

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 [...]

From copywritten Yoga to International Yoga Competitions, it seems that the concept of yoga — an activity that aims to further mind-body awareness and pure spiritual enlightenment — is attempting to fit itself into a social model more acceptable to Western civilization.

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 [...]

Sociecity sits down for a chat with artist Pantea Karimi in Portola Valley, California to ask about her obsession with newspapers, and find out how this fits into her latest piece titled “Fill in the Blanks.” The piece, part of a group show at Kriewall-Haehl Gallery, asks gallery visitors to be involved and give their input [...]

A fellow San Jose Arts Commissioner forwarded us a note from the American Association of Museums this afternoon which pointed out a primary need to break down barriers, change mindsets, blah blah blah. What we found most interesting in the note, however, was that the AAM — in reviewing grant applications where $500,000 was being doled out [...]

We ran into Lord Mayor, Stephen Yarwood at a conference on Eco Mobility in South Korea of all places, and have since been keeping an eye on the forward-thinking developments in Adelaide, Australia. A master-planned city of 1836 vintage, Adelaide is the capital of South Australia and a blooming center for culture. But it hasn’t [...]

A new study by the European Cycling Federation calls for a complete restructuring on how we think of transportation in order to his EU emissions targets.

“(Goldman Sachs) was about buying properties at a low price and then selling them at a high price, that’s it.” Find out how Takeshi Yamasaki took a gamble to make investments that are good for society, not just for investor pocketbooks.