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Monday, September 14, 2009 1 Comment

Today’s Headlines

More on the "axe the stimulus plaques" proposal that Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) wants attached to the 2010 U.S. DOT spending bill (Think Progress)

How "sustainable cities" can move from talk to action ... (Guardian)

... and more details on this week's Obama administration "sustainable communities" tour (EPA Press)

Electric car makers getting very optimistic (NYT)

A new tragedy befalls the Red Line on D.C.'s Metro (WaPo)

Is the mainstream media tuning out the consequences of climate change? (Yglesias)

http://capntransit.blogspot.com/ Cap’n Transit

From the Guardian article:

Mitchell Joachim, who teaches architecture and design at Columbia University and was selected by Wired magazine as one of 15 people Obama should listen to, presented his vision for a collapsible and stackable electric city car, which would hang at public recharging stations, available for shared use.

He also explained “meat tectonics”. Aiming to use meat proteins developed in a lab as building material, Joachim presented a digital rendering of an armadillo-shaped, kidney-coloured home. “It’s very ugly, we know that,” he said. “We’re not sure what a meat house is supposed to look like.”

Wait, what?