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reblogged from misterjt
misterjt: About 80 percent of the residents of Detroit buy their food at the one thousand convenience stores, party stores, liquor stores, and gas stations in the city. There is such a dire shortage of protein in the city that Glemie Dean Beasley, a seventy-year-old retired truck driver, is able to augment his Social Security by selling raccoon carcasses (twelve dollars a piece, serves a family of four) from animals he has treed and shot at undisclosed hunting grounds around the city. Pelts are ten dollars each. Pheasants are also abundant in the city and are occasionally harvested for dinner. (via Detroit: Urban Laboratory and the New American Frontier | Newgeography.com) The Urban “prairie” of what used to be Motor City. — misterjt

misterjt:

About 80 percent of the residents of Detroit buy their food at the one thousand convenience stores, party stores, liquor stores, and gas stations in the city. There is such a dire shortage of protein in the city that Glemie Dean Beasley, a seventy-year-old retired truck driver, is able to augment his Social Security by selling raccoon carcasses (twelve dollars a piece, serves a family of four) from animals he has treed and shot at undisclosed hunting grounds around the city. Pelts are ten dollars each. Pheasants are also abundant in the city and are occasionally harvested for dinner.

(via Detroit: Urban Laboratory and the New American Frontier | Newgeography.com)

The Urban “prairie” of what used to be Motor City. — misterjt
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minusmanhattan:

Passion Pit - Sleepy Head

Love this song. Snagged it from The Current Song of the Day podcast. It’s on my frequent rotation playlist known as the Chex Mix.



Healthy Food For All: Building Equitable and Sustainable Food Systems in Detroit and Oakland This report shows that although our food system is unhealthy and unsustainable, successes driven by residents and advocates are cropping up — proving that the movement for equitable access to healthy food is gaining strength every day. (via PolicyLink)

Healthy Food For All: Building Equitable and Sustainable Food Systems in Detroit and Oakland
This report shows that although our food system is unhealthy and unsustainable, successes driven by residents and advocates are cropping up — proving that the movement for equitable access to healthy food is gaining strength every day. (via PolicyLink)

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Having lived and worked in Philadelphia, New York and Boston I have spent plenty of time pondering the different attitudes and expectations toward transit in those various cities. Through those experiences I have come to the conclusion that transportation systems work best when there is investment and ridership from the privileged, educated and economically well-off, i.e. white people.

When public transportation is perceived as charity for those who are poor it will never be invested in and respected by those who throw their weight around cities; business leaders, government employees, professors and doctors. Rather, when public transportation is utilized by people throughout a city and when privileged people depend on transit to get them from place-to-place the system will be invested in and respected.

 White Population and Its Effect on Transit « The Transit Pass (via Instapaper) (via edkohler)
robosheep: (via arrowsandaccolades) Aw snap; just going to let this baby work his magic with my tumblarity. I want one! In a totally abstract sort of way.

robosheep:

(via arrowsandaccolades)

Aw snap; just going to let this baby work his magic with my tumblarity.

I want one! In a totally abstract sort of way.



The Four Types of Global Health-Care Models and How They Compare to the United States

For a plain as day breakdown of the major types of health care systems in the world (Canada, Britain, Germany, everybody else) and how they compare to ours, listen to T.R. Reid speak at the Commonwealth Club of California. That’s an iTunes link, and the critical part is from 4:45 to 21:45. The whole hour-long podcast is a great listen, if you want to spend the time.

(via boycott-love)

(via boycott-love)



reblogged from chuckolsen
chuckolsen: Obama weather Glad they put Barack in the non-mom-jeans.

chuckolsen:

Obama weather

Glad they put Barack in the non-mom-jeans.

Think only 'their' teens get pregnant?

jbrotherlove:

According to research conducted for the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, only 28 percent of those who report having given birth or fathered a child as a teen lived in families with incomes below the federal poverty line.

And just 30 percent of those who report having given birth to or fathered a child as a teen say they were living with a single parent. We are not only wrong - and probably bigoted - about whose teens get pregnant. Those of us in middle-class, intact families have our heads seriously in the sand if we think it can’t happen to us.

via The Baltimore Sun

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-1)
  1. Chastity Brown (12) 
  2. Coleman Lindberg (4) 
  3. Jools Holland (with Ruby Turner) (2) 
  4. Miguel Migs (2) 
  5. Lymbyc Systym (2) 

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