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Around the World in Five Minutes
Week of July 2 — People, Nature, and Place. Each Friday the team at sociecity finds all the news you might have missed this week, and compiles it into a short column you can read in five minutes. Don’t...
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Around the World in Five Minutes
Week of July 9 — People, Nature, and Place. Each Friday the team at sociecity finds all the news you might have missed this week, and compiles it into a short column you can read in five minutes. Don’t...
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Around the World in Five Minutes
Week of July 16 – People, Nature, and Place. Each Friday the team at sociecity finds all the news you might have missed this week, and compiles it into a short column you can read in five minutes....
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In USA, Bad Diet Causes Millions More Deaths than Homicide
Health-Related Diseases top List of "Killers" in the U.S. (Graphic: Jamie Oliver TED Speech | statistics from National Vital Statistics Report) Chef Jamie Oliver tells it like it is: We spend our life...
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Times Dumps Environmental Reporting
New York Times Dumps Environmental Coverage Unit (photo-illustration, P.M. Lydon | sociecity) A month short of its third anniversary, the New York Times Green blog is being dumped. The move to...
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Need an SUV for the Family?
Need an SUV? Get Real. Get a Bike. (photo: Suhee Kang | Sociecity) Outside of the ultra-density urban hubs, bike use in Japan is surprisingly high. It’s not uncommon to see a mother toting groceries...
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California’s Population Problem?
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...
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Where is my “Middle Class?”
Taken In Central Valley, California Photographer Josh Hires – joshhires.com Image Notes This image was captured at the height of the housing crisis in one of the hardest hit areas of California, the...
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Who has the “Serenest” Yoga Pose?
The World Yoga Master (Illustration | sociecity) From copywritten Yoga to International Yoga Competitions, it seems that the concept of yoga — an activity that aims to further mind-body awareness and...
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Traditional Crafts, Modern Ideas
Taken In Insadong, Seoul, South Korea Photographer Patrick Lydon – pmlydon.com Image Notes The image captures a (typically) busy summer weekend day at the Ssamziegil Market in Seoul’s Insadong...
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Is the Indian Point Nuclear Plant Unsafe?
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%...
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Copenhagen Economics: Cars are a Net Loss, Bikes a Benefit
A study commissioned in 2010 by Bo Asmus Kjeldgaard, Mayor of Copenhagen found that driving cars offers up a $0.20 net loss for each mile driven. But the major form of transportation in this city of...
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South Korea: Bed and Breakfast, from the Rooftop Garden
We’ve been filming in South Korea for for the Final Straw Project over the past 2 weeks, and I wondered what other “green” projects are going on in the area. Suhee Kang, our editor for Korea heard...
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Lettuce in the City
Taken In Seoul, South Korea Photographer Patrick Lydon – pmlydon.com Image Notes Seoul’s activist-turned-mayor, Won Soon Park has been taking a hacksaw to many controversial big-industry projects, and...
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California’s State Parks Going Private
The afternoon foliage at Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, which is slated to stay open (photo: Patrick Lydon | sociecity) In an effort to save $22 million out of the State’s $15.7 billion budget...
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Around the World in Five Minutes
Week of June 25 — People, Nature, and Place. Each Friday the team at sociecity finds all the news you might have missed this week, and compiles it into a short column you can read in five minutes....
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Dirty Useless Bums, or Eco Heroes?
Photo Illustration: Patrick Lydon | sociecity Let’s cut to the chase and be brutally honest about what our stereotypical “bum” is: a dirty, drunken, frightening, socially inept creature of the urban...
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Weekend Farmers
Taken In Dumulmeori, South Korea Photographer Suhee Kang – vertciel.blog.me Image Notes “Weekend Farmers” water the grounds of their organic farm at the head of South Korea’s Han River. Out of the...
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Taking the Highline in NYC
Taken In New York City, USA Photographer Patrick Lydon – pmlydon.com Image Notes Once an old elevated rail line, the Highline park now snakes its way through the city, using not just the path of the...
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Why Failure = Success in Tech and Art
The Lumarca project by artist Albert Hwang, Matthew Parker at Eyebeam in New York City (photo: Patrick Lydon) A fellow San Jose Arts Commissioner forwarded us a note from the American Association of...
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