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Daily Archives: May 22, 2009

Readers React to a Car-Free World

May 22, 2009
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Readers React to a Car-Free World

Last weekend, I wrote about the mostly car-free German community of Vauban and I received lots of great responses both by email and here on our blog. Thanks to everyone who wrote in, the letters gave me a lot to think about and some even made me laugh. Today, I’m going to share some of those responses with you and I invite you to submit a response of your own if you haven’t yet. Now, for something to ponder during your long Memorial Day weekend … “Cheap energy flattened and shrank our world. Mandating a green utopia (Vaubanizing) may...

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Art, Stocks and Money

May 22, 2009
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Art, Stocks and Money

The Santa Monica Museum of Art, although I’ve never visited it, has brightened up my week.  I read in a recent news story that the museum holds an art sale every year called “incognito.” The idea is simple.  Hundreds of artists (over 480 this year) donate paintings, all of them in the same format (8″ by 10″) and the museum sells them for $300 each, regardless of who painted them.  Some of the artists in the sale are quite well known, and their works are worth much, much more than the $300 price.  Others are, of course, are worth...

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