I love Stuart McLean’s Vinyl Cafe and yesterday had the good fortune of being stuck in weekend cottage traffic long enough to enjoy his entire Sunday show. The inspiring true story read from Michael Gallagher of Hope, Main is one for the ages. You can hear it by advancing the playbar to 11:30. Here is the direct audio link.
Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) continue as forceful advocates for the intelligent and obviously necessary return to a Glass-Steagall-like division preventing banks from levered speculating backed by the American taxpayer. This clip from 2013, is a good reminder of some of the history of this fight and why congress and the business media continue to oppose this return to reason with all of their bank-sponsored might. Here is a direct video link.
As more and more people move into cities, the demand for access to fresher, more nutritious foods continues to rise.
Brooklyn-based Gotham Greens builds greenhouses on urban rooftops. Inside the greenhouses, the company grows vegetables that don’t have to make the long journey most food makes from rural farms to cities…
This high-tech solution, though costly and subject to space limitations, is one of many approaches to urban agriculture now being explored around the globe. And on a per-square-foot basis, its product yields could potentially eclipse those produced by traditional farming methods.
Here is a direct video clip.
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