“America’s 20th largest bus service — hauling 120,000 riders a day — is profitable and also illegal. It’s not really a bus service at all, but a willy-nilly aggregation of 350 licensed and 500 unlicensed privately-owned ‘dollar vans’ that roam the streets of Brooklyn and Queens, picking up passengers from street corners where city buses are either missing or inconvenient.” Read more. Via Makeshift.
Archives for October 2011
The Farming Systems Trial (1981-2011)
October 5, 2011 by Filed Under: Farming
Metafilter reports that The Rodale Institute has just published the results of a 30-year study that claims that – in terms of yields, economic viability, energy usage, and human health – organic farming is better than conventional farming.
With results like these, why does conventional wisdom favour chemical farming? “Vested interests. Organic farming keeps more money on the farm and in rural communities and out of the pockets of chemical companies. As the major funders of research centres and universities, and major advertisers in the farm media, they effectively buy a pro-chemical bias.”
Human Microphones
October 5, 2011 by Filed Under: Sound amplification
People-powered sound amplification at Wall Street. Thanks to Lucas Brouns.
