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Urban Aquaculture: Professor Martin Schreibman wants to bring fish farms into the ...
"Professor Martin Schreibman says our oceans have been overfished beyond repair. If we're going to keep eating fish and chips, tuna tartare, and all those omega-3 fatty acids, we may have to rely on aquaculture. Schreibman is working to bring those fish farms into the city. Urban aquaculture? We'll bite."
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Train in Vain
Ben Jervey, in his contribution to this month's issue of Good Magazine's travel issue, writes about his coast-to-coast passenger rail journey from New York to Oakland aboard Amtrak. Jervey describes how Amtrak struggles to survive in a nation lacking confidence and esteem towards rail travel. His journey begins on the East Coast aboard the Lake Shore Limited connecting New York to Chicago, and continues his westward travels aboard the famous California Zephyr connecting Chicago to Oakland. Read Jervey's essay to learn about the ups and downs of Amtrak's rail service. Check out video, maps and images by Amy Stein accompanying the article. Ben Jervey, in his contribution to this month's issue of Good Magazine's travel issue, writes about his coast-to-coast passenger rail ... more
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"Boomtown: America's Biggest Inland Oil Discovery In 50 Years"
"What happens when an oil field as big as any in the Middle East is discovered in the desolate border towns of Montana and North Dakota?"
By Zach Dundas// GOOD Magazine
Photo by Brian Paumier
The story started out in a Montana newspaper, then grew into a minor legend: An unnamed rancher out in the state’s far east, a sparsely populated town along the North Dakota border, received his first royalty check for crude oil pumped out of his pastureland. Oil is the big news in this area, which the locals call MonDak; on both sides of the border, new wells can mean life-changing money for the families who own some of the toughest, driest farm and ranch land in the country.
So the story goes that the farmer opened the envelope and looked at the check, the first quarterly installment. He read the amount, read it a second time, then he sent the check back. He must have thought the damn fools had put the decimal point in the wrong place—$1.1 million, an unfathomable fortune, just couldn’t be right.
The tale circulated this fall in and around Sidney, a town of 5,000 people that anchors a huge swath of eastern Montana’s gold and slate-gray hills. Sidney is not part of the Montana where movie stars buy trophy ranches: temperatures swing from minus 40 degrees in the winter to 110 in the summer, and no one would confuse recreation with the battle to squeeze a living out of the land.
The town also happens to sit at the epicenter of the biggest inland oil discovery in the United States in 50 years. Two miles below the surface lies a stratum of oil known as the Bakken formation, holding an epic haul of crude—some surveys suggest up to 200 billion barrels, a near-Saudi-sized reserve. And since the end of 2000, when new drilling technology and rising prices combined to unleash the find, Montana and North Dakota have become the underground rock stars of American oil, among the few states recording production increases. With oil prices soaring above $100 a barrel, it’s like giant vaults of cash opened beneath the MonDak soil...
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This man can actually predict the future!
...Bueno de Mesquita has big ideas, and he's more than happy to put his career on the line for them. Back in March 2004, when al-Qaeda bombed a Madrid train station, influencing the course of Spain's general election three days later, a lot of U.S. security folks were nervous. Worried that al-Qaeda might try something similar here in the run-up to the November, 2004, presidential elections, the Pentagon hired Bueno de Mesquita to run some data through his forecasting model to tell them what to expect. The results were unequivocal. "I said there would be no homeland attack. I also indicated that bin Laden's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, would resurface around Thanksgiving, 2004," he says. Just after the elections in November that year, Zawahiri released a new videotape. Bueno de Mesquita was right on both counts. "One of the things government needs most is advice that's not wishy-washy. I try to be as precise as I can." ...Bueno de Mesquita has big ideas, and he's more than happy to put his career on the line for them. Back in March 2004, when al-Qaeda... more
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End the year with some big ideas
GOOD Magazine is counting down some big ideas. Russian democracy? Carbon offets? LUNAR ARKS? Yes please.
The big idea I'm obsessed with lately is the notion that biotechnology is about to undergo the same kind of crazy-hyper-accelerated-boom that computer technology's been rocking since the '80s. I suspect it is a boom that delivers, in short order, pet dinosaurs and biopunk rockers with transparent skin who play in illegal dance clubs on the moon.
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New York City is the place to be
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If it ain't broke...
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Incandescent Light Bulbs: So Over
Australia recently passed a law that will ban the sale of incandescent lightbulbs in three years, and other countries are looking to follow suit. Here is an idea to help boost the sales of compact fluorescent lightsthe leading alternative technologyand to make sure consumers take the imperative step of recycling their burned-out CFLs. Australia recently passed a law that will ban the sale of incandescent lightbulbs in three years, and other countries are looking to f... more
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GOOD Magazine: Bikes to Rwanda
Portland coffee shop brings bicycles to Rwandan coffee workers. Awesome publication BTW. I am a subscriber and I highly recommend it to anyone. Portland coffee shop brings bicycles to Rwandan coffee workers. Awesome publication BTW. I am a subscriber and I highly recommend it t... more
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
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GOOD facts about the porn industry
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one of the better videos to come out of 11 Spring St
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Buy ring, support UNESCO, shoot lasers
Well the last part was a lie, but these are nifty. From a really cool outfit called Social Design Network that area all about substance + style. I got one at the Good party in SF last weekend. You can also choose the charity your $ goes to.
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GOOD Magazine Block Party @ 111 Minna in SF on Sunday
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