What I read today - May 24
- A Flower-Farming Renaissance: America’s Slow Flower Movement, Modern Farmer
- So You Want to Eat a Tree, Atlas Obscura
- Boston's Sidewalks Are Covered In Secret Poems, Atlas Obscura
- Hanson Reveals the Surprising Story Behind 'MMMBop', Broadly
- Tree Law is a Gnarly, Twisted Branch of the Legal System, Atlas Obscura
- How Trees Help Solve Murders, Atlas Obscura
- How Love Works, The New Republic
- You Can Now Reserve Whole Sections Of Dolores Park Grass For Yourself, For A Price, sfist
- THE START-TO-FINISH DESIGNER, InVision Blog
- Cutleaf Staghorn Sumac, Brooklyn Botanical Garden
- Why Some Couples Have So Much More Sex Than Others, NY Mag
- Gentrification’s Latest Victims: New York’s Feral Cats, New York Times
Tracy once talked me into taking the TNR course. She insisted she was going to start working with bodega's in the neighborhood to spade and neuter their bodega cats. Never happened. - A New York State of Design: How NYC Became the Design Capital of the World, Print Mag
- How Bushwick and Ridgewood, Once Entwined, Became Distinct Neighborhoods, Curbed
- After 20,000 years, the world's oldest people face a crisis of culture, CNN
- What nobody told me about small farming: I can’t make a living, Salon
Well, duh. But it still makes me sad.
What I read today - May 23
- Weeds You Can Eat: Pokeweed Sloppy Joes, Gardenista
- What Exactly Is a No-Fee Apartment, Anyway?, Brownstoner
- When it Comes to Food Access, are Grocery Store Hours as Important as Location?, Civil Eats
- 1,910 Envelopes of Heroin, $12K in Cash Seized in Brooklyn Bust, Police Say, DNAinfo
- Plan to Turn Old Fuel Tanks Into Tech Hub Shot Down By Park Advocates, DNAinfo
- Does Your Food Define You? Sophie Egan Thinks So., Civil Eats
- How to Get your Apartment Off the Grid, Resilience
- Suspicious Minds, The Jerx
What I read today - May 19
- A Map of the World's Most Superlative Trees, Atlas Obscura
- Meet Brooklyn's Internet Bonsai Kingpin, Atlas Obscura
- Do Not Eat, Touch, Or Even Inhale the Air Around the Manchineel Tree, Atlas Obscura
- Acorn Woodpeckers Hoard Thousands of Acorns in a Single Tree, Atlas Obscura
- Get Out of the Office and Into the Trees as an Urban Arborist, Atlas Obscura
- Study Says Millennials Will Soon Flee Big Cities In Droves, Gothamist
- Millennials Are Moving To Buffalo & Living Like Kings, Gothamist
- Leaf Head: A New Yorker Learns to Look at Trees, Urban Omnibus
- Seeking a Future New York in Weeds, Urban Omnibus
- Profiles of Spontaneous Urban Plants, Urban Omnibus
"It is an understandable human reaction, as we have been taught, generally, that things which require little to no effort to grow, create, or maintain are worth less. " - #HouseGoals: Housing-obsessed UK has a perky real-estate Instagram, Digiday
- Profiles of Spontaneous Urban Plants, Urban Omnibus
What I read today - May 17
- What Millennials Want from a New Job, Harvard Business Review
- Shell Oil Spill Near Louisiana Dumps 90,000 Gallons of Crude Oil Into the Gulf of Mexico, Mic
- A guy just transcribed 30 years of for-rent ads. Here’s what it taught us about housing prices, Medium
- An All-Volunteer Squad Of Farmers Is Turning Florida Lawns Into Food, NPR
- How Rival Gardens of Eden in Iraq Survived ISIS, Dwindling Tourists, And Each Other, Atlas Obscura
- 'Useless artifacts': Why brands keep making emoji keyboards, DigiDay
- How The Washingtonian grew homepage traffic by 18 percent, Digiday
- How To Kill Mealybugs On Houseplants, Get Busy Gardening
Stupid buggers invested my office palm - Morristown College: School of Freedom, Sometimes Interesting
- Freeganism: food waste’s first wave, The New Food Economy
- ABC No Rio Gears Up for a Razing and a Brand-New Home, New York Times
- America’s Food Deserts Need Community Solutions, Not Big Box Stores, Civil Eats
- Women Who Breastfeed Are Shamed for Smoking Weed. Is There a Good Reason?, Broadly
so good - The More I Learn About Breast Milk, the More Amazed I Am, The Stranger
- Yellowstone Bison Calf Euthanized After Visitors Reportedly Tried to Rescue It Because It Looked Cold, ABC News
What I read today - May 10
- Don’t Underestimate the Power of Lateral Career Moves for Professional Growth, Harvard Business Review
- When You Can't Have A Baby Whenever You Want, Rodale's Organic Life
- 50 Ideas To Inspire Your First Container Garden Project, Rodale's Organic Life
- Children in Farm Communities Pay a Steep Price for the Food We Eat, Civil Eats
- Even the world’s largest food company knows the American diet is an environmental catastrophe, Grist
- Red Cross Built Exactly 6 Homes For Haiti With Nearly Half A Billion Dollars In Donations, Huffington Post
- I Can’t Tell You Why Our Business Is Growing, Medium
- Budweiser Renames Its Beer "America", Fast Co Design
What I read today - May 9
- Urban Farms Bring Us Together, but Can They Feed Enough of Us?, Civil Eats
- Oakland's Historic Tribune Tower and the Renegade Artist Who Keeps It Glowing, Atlas Obscura
- The Inter-Amish Language Barriers of Indiana, Atlas Obscura
- The Hidden Messages of Colonial Handwriting, Atlas Obscura
- For New York City's black cowboy group, it's high noon, Daily Mail
I think the Federation of Black Cowboys is one of those incredible organizations of NYC and is rather sad that it just might be ending. - The Legacy of Albania’s 700,000 Bunkers, Slate
- A Century of Conflicted, Complicated Motherhood in Art, The New Republic
- Measuring Donald Trump’s Mammoth Advantage in Free Media, New York Times
- Trickle-Down Feminism, Revisited, Dissent Magazine
- Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News, Gizmodo
- PWR BTTM, Tiny Desk Concert, NPR
- Urban Farms Fuel Idealism. Profits? Not So Much, NPR
- Dismantling neoliberal education: a lesson from the Zapatistas, ROAR
I fell down an extremely cynical and disheartening rabbit hole of a Facebook feed. I feel this way sometimes and then another way and another and eventually I just figure I should make myself happy. It tends to be individualistic and capitalistic because why would I want a hard life? And so I never think these think pieces really give the answer to how to fix things and is more of a 'just stop doing and feel guilty about it.' - From Farm to Bottle: This Brewery Combines Beer and Agriculture, Modern Farmer
What I read today - May 6-8
- How and Why American Cities Are Coming Back, City Lab
- How One Photographer Finally Convinced a President to Give Him Full Access, Atlas Obscura
- Living Lofts: The Evolution of the Cast Iron District, Urban Omnibus
- How Taco Bell made that terrifying giant taco Snapchat lens, Digiday
- “THE ARTIST’S WAY” IN AN AGE OF SELF-PROMOTION, The New Yorker
- Scarred Riverbeds and Dead Pistachio Trees in a Parched Iran, New York Times
- Diamanda Galás, Still Wild and Primal, Returns to the New York Stage, New York Times
What I read today - May 2
- Music and magic at the city’s first roof gardens, Ephemeral New York
- Workwear for Women Who Farm, Civil Eats
- The Extraordinary Lives of Istanbul's Street Cats, City Lab
- How Unstaffed Grocery Stores Can Bring Healthy Food To Rural Communities, Food Tech Connect
- The Great West Point Chain Hoax That Conned Mayors and Musuems, Untapped Cities
- Modern-Day Logos That Look Awfully Similar to Older Logos From Different Companies, Core77
- The NYPL's Rose Main Reading Room Dazzles, Even Mid-Renovation, Curbed
- In 2016, Toddlers Have Shot More People in the US Than Muslim Terrorists Have, Mic
- America’s obsession with adult coloring is a cry for help, Quartz
- Interactive Map Shows How Your Neighborhood Has Recovered From the Housing Market Crash, 6sqft
Just great. Bed Stuy prices have risen 194% which is the largest increase of any metro area in the country. Four years ago, we started a community garden. Almost all the renters who helped start the garden weren't rent stabilized and have (mostly) all left the area. A few of us are still hanging on, but as I feel myself moving out of the area, I assume the rest of us renters in Bed Stuy who started the garden will be gone in a few years. It makes me incredibly sad. - America’s great housing divide: Are you a winner or loser?, The Washington Post
What I read today - May 1
- The void only you can see, Kelli Anderson
- GOING DEEP: DESIGNER KELLI ANDERSON, Create
What I read today - April 29
- Why Becoming Parents Makes People Better Employees, Fast Company
- ‘AGRIHOODS’ OFFER SUBURBAN LIVING BUILT AROUND COMMUNITY FARMS, NOT GOLF COURSES - FOOD IS FREE PROJECT, Over Grow the System
- Money Troubles, The New Yorker
- Have we got Positive News for you! And it’s illustrated by Noma Bar, It's Nice That
- The Really Big One, The New Yorker
- The Queer Black Woman Who Reinvented The Blues, Atlas Obscura
- Alexis Bhagat Grand Street Community Arts, Blog Talk Radio
Lex is amazing - The Most Beautiful Tulip in History Cost as Much as a House, Atlas Obscura
- Little prince: How a royal robe broke the internet, Digiday
- Beyoncé profits over social media controversy with 'Boycott Beyoncé' T-shirt, Digiday
- How Rihanna Maintains Control, Fader
I also got up to date with Rih's videos. - Nestlé’s Half-Billion-Dollar Noodle Debacle in India, Fortune
- What You Need To Know About That 'Cute' Lemur Video, NPR
- Shantell, Inc: Meet Collaboration Queen Shantell Martin, W
- Run Meetings That Are Fair to Introverts, Women, and Remote Workers, Harvard Business Review
- Don’t Talk Yourself Out of Trying a Second Career, Harvard Business Review
What I read today - April 28
- The rise of 'micro-influencers' on Instagram, Digiday
- Do you eat? Then you should care about agriculture policy., The Baltimore Sun
- When Architects Run Your Building, Urban Omnibus
- Katherine Lennard F'16
Jess' sis got a Fellowship. - The Epic Century-Long English Battle to Rid Itself of American Squirrels, Atlas Obscura
- Meet the New York Times’ Jenna Wortham before she reinvents herself again, Re/Code
- A Chinese puzzle solved - Pilea peperomioides
- This Is How Language Might Be Mapped In Your Brain, Buzzfeed
- Stuff You Should Know: How NYC School Zones and Districts Work, 6 sqft
- Dodging cars and harassment, women bike messengers band together for support, Cycling Tips
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.