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Oil Sands, North of Fort McMurray

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

These enormous scrapers, seen through a storm of dust and a late spring snow shower, are moving earth to establish a new oil sands mine.
-Andriko and Rob

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“Watch the american housing market spiral out of control.”

Saturday, April 25, 2009

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Subprime by Mike “Beeple” Winkelmann
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- Anne

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Space of Recession; Place of Property

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

National Recessions and Regional Depression
Last year, we asked about the geography of what we called “The Depression of 2009”. This year, in February, The Economist provided a brief article pointing out the differences in regional economies in the US – Montana still growing at over 4% versus Michigan’s economy, contracting at over 7%. [...]

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Entangled Territories – Toronto School of Creativity & Inquiry

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Toronto School of Creativity & Inquiry (this time: Adrian Blackwell, Greig de Peuter, Christine Shaw, & Marcelo Vieta)

Entangled Territories, an event organized by Toronto School of Creativity and Inquiry (in this case, Adrian Blackwell, Greig de Peuter, Christine Shaw, and Marcelo Vieta) as Act 16 of the Public Acts project, was held within Adrian Blackwell’s [...]

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Oil and rising waters don’t mix

Thursday, January 15, 2009

My advice to every architect and civil engineer: dikes and levees are going to be hot.
In its 11th hour, the Bush Administration has authorized a new US Arctic Policy (National Security Presidential Directive 66), which will serve as a continuing, broad policy guideline to government agencies until replaced. That is, it has [...]

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