What I read today - April 26
- How To Keep Your Plants Alive, Courtesy Of Tula, Barneys
- The Techies Project
Ok, I didn't read all of it, but want to bookmark - Majority of Millennials Reject Capitalism, Survey Says — Because Greed Is Not Good, Mic
- Tell-Tale Signs of the Modern-Day Yuppie, New York Times
- Huge Baltimore study reveals the key for young people trying to escape poverty, Fusion
- This Is Our Country. Let’s Walk It., New York Times
- Reinventing the Greenhouse, Resilience
What I read today - April 21
- Charted: US consumption of bottled water has finally caught up to soda, Quartz
- What It's Like To Be The Only Painter In Antarctica, Atlas Obscura
- 'Things don't go viral by themselves': Inside the social media manager cabal, Digiday
- Finding New York in West Side Story, Urban Omnibus
- DO YOU SUFFER FROM LIBRARY ANXIETY?, JSTOR
- Airbnb Touts Growth of Tourists Staying in City's Predominantly Black Areas, DNAinfo
- What does Student Loan Forgiveness Have to Do with Farming? Everything., Civil Eats
- Startup Ad Campaigns in the NYC Subway, Subtraction
- GOOD DESIGNERS VERSUS GREAT DESIGNERS, InVision
- The Secret Shame of Middle-Class Americans, The Atlantic
- City’s Empty Spaces: What is the Housing Potential?, City Limits
- Finding the Value of a Vacant Lot by Tapping Into Neighborhood Memory, Next City
- New York’s New Streetlights Are Robbing Nighttime of Its Romance, New York Magazine
- After Fires In West, Mushroom Hunters 'Chase The Burn', NPR
What I read today - April 19
- A ’70s Board Game Designed to Teach Players About Race, Housing, and Privilege, Slate
- That Time Soviet School Children Bugged the US Ambassador’s Office, Messy Nessy Chic
- When Plants Are Cut, They Bleed, Sort Of, Modern Farmer
- Can Permaculture Make a Dent in America’s Farm Landscape?, Civil Eats
- What Happens When Millennials Run the Workplace?, New York Times
- The all-Black Utopian Ghost City that Lost its Soul, Messy Nessy Chic
- Amanda Burden Wants to Remake New York. She Has 19 Months Left., New York Times
- Online Dating and the Death of the 'Mixed-Attractiveness' Couple, Pricenomics
- OOUX: A Foundation for Interaction Design, A List Apart
- The Forgotten History of Female Mapmakers, The Atlantic
- The Problem With Hillary Clinton Isn’t Just Her Corporate Cash. It’s Her Corporate Worldview., The Nation
- Feel the Math, New York Times
- How the Rest of the Delegate Race Could Unfold, New York Times
- HOW TO THROW LIKE A GIRL., McSweeney's
- Hunger as an Instrument of Social Control, The New Inquiry
- How Letterspacing Can Make All Caps Easier to Read, UX Movement
OMG DUH. Do UI/UX designers go do IRL art school anymore? I might also be annoyed that I actually took the time to read this. oy. - The Rain Barrel Is Only the Beginning of the West’s Water Wars, The New Republic
The kids got into my water barrels yesterday at the garden and proceeded to waste it. It was horrifying.
What I read today - April 14
- DESIGNERS SHOULDN’T CODE—THEY SHOULD STUDY BUSINESS, InVision
- Not all community gardens are created equal, New Food Economy
- Zen and the art of social enterprise, New Food Economy
- From the world’s largest rooftop farm, an improbable business book, The New Food Economy
- Typecast: The Row House, Urban Omnibus
- There’s one major perk of globalization that only applies to rich people, Quartz
- Is that Begonia or Dishy Coral? Sherwin-Williams matches Pinterest colors to paints, Digiday
- The "Genius Grant" Foundation Just Took a Big Step on Changing the Criminal Justice System, Mic
- How Bloomberg's 20-person graphics team visualizes the news, Digiday
- Refinery29’s Philippe von Borries: 'The era of broad, indiscriminate scale is over', Digiday
- Beyond the blue liquid: Brands modernize menstruation marketing, Digiday
- Call climate change what it is: violence, The Guardian
- GOODBYE TO ALL THAT, BY JOAN DIDION
What I read today - April 12
- Adopt A Beehive — Save A Beekeeper?, NPR
- Enjoy Your Friends Before You Lose Them All at Age 25, Broadly
- The Illicit Spelunker Capturing Underground Scenes at Chernobyl, Atlas Obscura
- The Man Who Began America's Yurt Craze, Atlas Obscura
- Amazon's new Kindle Oasis has leaked: cool battery case, but not waterproof, The Verge
- What I Learned from Trying to Innovate at the New York Times, Harvard Business Review
- 6 THINGS THAT TAKE YOUR UX FROM ABOVE AVERAGE TO WORLD CLASS, InVision
- Should I Have Kids?, Medium
Been getting a little itch recently. I feel too young for kids but I know, realistically, that my clock is ticking. Never thought kids would be for me, but I'm curious about this life experience that everyone thinks is so grand. - This Temple In India Gives Free Food To 75,000 People Every Day, Organic Life
- THE ROAD TO MEDIOCRITY IS PAVED WITH BEST PRACTICES, InVision
Thank goodness. Design these days seems populated by the status quo. I'm over it. - Grow Up! How to Transform Your Roof into a Garden or Farm, Civil Eats
- BREAK THE UNIFORMITY!, Elle Decor
Callie calls Kinfolk "beige." It's an apt description. - The Bronx’s Depression-Era Boxcar Village, Where Lodging Was $3/Month, 6sqft
- How the ghost of Diana still haunts Highgrove: As Charles stages a festival to celebrate his beloved garden, RICHARD KAY reveals a poignant secret, Daily Mail
- Debate Over Prison Population Turns to the States, New York Times
What I read today - April 10
- Showtime Documentary Series 'The Circus' Hits The Presidential Campaign Trail, Forbes
- What a ‘Tree of 40 Fruit’ Tells Us About Agricultural Evolution, National Geographic
- Brooklyn Youth Create Jobs (and Community Roots) Through Local Compost Program, Yes Magazine
- PLANTING CIVIL RIGHTS, Landscape Architecture Magazine
What I read today - April 9
- Brooklyn Neighbors Say Garden Could Be Washed Away in a Rising Tide of Deed Fraud, WNYC
- From crop tops to Jimmy Choos: How Coachella became a fashion marketing hotbed, Digiday
- Humans of New York Founder Takes On Donald Trump, New York Times
- What Americans are willing to pay for “ethnic” restaurant food reveals some deep prejudices, Quartz
- Pick your own food aboard a floating forest at Brooklyn Bridge Park this summer, Brooklyn Based
What I read today - April 7
- 'It's like saying everything living in the ocean is a fish': Marketers obsessed with millennials are making a mistake, Digiday
- Farm Tools for Women, by Women, Civil Eats
- WeWork’s 110 Wall Street: You can co-live here, but you can’t co-sue us, The Real Deal
- Seed Libraries and State Laws, American Libraries Magazine
- 30 Years After Chia Pets, Seeds Hit Food Aisles, New York Times
- Louisiana's vanishing island: the climate 'refugees' resettling for $52m, The Guardian
- Angola’s Wikipedia Pirates Are Exposing the Problems With Digital Colonialism, Motherboard
- The strange, short career of Judeo-Christianity, Aeon
- Learn the Secrets of Technical Tree-Climbing, Atlas Obscura
- Cooking Class, The New Inquiry
- Infographics in the Time of Cholera, Pro Publica
- Global Demand for Food Is Rising. Can We Meet It?, Harvard Business Review
- Why There's No 'Right' Way To Speak English, Atlas Obscura
- 8 Clever Gardening Hacks That Save Money + Make Plants Healthier, Organic Life
What I read today - April 5
- Mythbusting 101: Organic Farming > Conventional Agriculture, Scientific American
- With Clock Ticking, East New York Negotiations to Heat Up, Gotham Gazette
- Lose Yourself in this Atlas of the World's Lost Cities, Atlas Obscura
- Our Natural History, Endangered, The New York Times
- Costco gets creative to meet shoppers’ huge appetite for organics, Seattle Times
- A Massive Aquaponic Lettuce And Fish Farm Will Grow In A Brooklyn Warehouse, Fast Co Exist
- The World May Have Too Much Food, Bloomberg
- The little loophole helping developers build their supertall towers even higher, Crain's New York
- Letter of Recommendation: Segmented Sleep, New York Times
What I read today - April 4
- Spotlight: Gotham Greens Talks Rooftop Farming Against the New York Skyline, 6 sqft
- Coming soon to Instagram: Square milkshakes from Sonic, Digiday
- BuzzFeed targets DIY with Nifty, a platform-focused video brand, Digiday
- Who Made That Scratch-Off Lottery Ticket?, New York Times Magazine
- Is ‘Friends’ Still the Most Popular Show on TV?, Vulture
- A $700 Juicer for the Kitchen That Caught Silicon Valley’s Eye, New York Times
- This $700 WiFi “juicer” is everything wrong with food today, The Washington Post
- Balcony Seats to the City, Curbed
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What I read today - April 2
- Young People Explain Why They Ditched the City for the Country, Vice
- This Women's Clothing Brand Is Made For Professional Women Who Hate To Shop, Fast Company
- Beyond Talk: Searching For Real Solutions to Food Appropriation, Civil Eats
- New York just passed the nation's most radical paid family leave policy, Mashable
- We Post Nothing About Our Daughter Online, Slate
- Wary of Gentrification, East Harlem Braces for Rapid Change, Gotham Gazette