Architecture & Design & Globalisation Entropy | 22 Mar 2009
Worldchanging.com is enlightening website to explore.. We all need to be aware and contribute our bit for the cause of our own future and planet ..
Our things define us.
What we buy, what we use, what we keep and throw away, what we waste, and what we save: the stuff that surrounds us and flows through [...]
Economic Behaviour & Globalisation & News Entropy | 14 Oct 2008
I was pleasantly surprised and deeply moved to read the News of one of my favorite New York Times Columnist Paul Krugman receiving the Noble Prize in Economic Sciences. Essentially reading his columns for many years, makes me feel connected. In fact NYT has been my daily diet since it became accessible on the Net.
In [...]
Economic Behaviour & Globalisation Entropy | 10 Oct 2008
I have been occasionally reproved of article cut-and-paste on my blog. However, wish to clarify, that they reflect what I feel strongly about and moves me deeply, which I feel compelled to reproduce and share, with like-minded readers.
Another instance of such a thought-provoking feature by Arun Maira whose depth is admirable..is being reproduced
City’s progress report
A [...]
Economic Behaviour & Globalisation Entropy | 07 Oct 2008
As a matter of practice, I do not post anything topical or current affairs on my Blog. However, we are truly living in uncertain times. Economic meltdown, in the face of leadership crisis. It’s a pulverizing feeling.. Accordingly, I am making an exception by reproducing content of the recent brilliant & perceptive [...]
Globalisation & Life & Nature Entropy | 19 Aug 2008
The recent passing away of Masanobu Fukuoka, the pioneer of ‘‘natural’’ farming, which eschews plowing, weeding and the use of fertilizers or pesticides, led me to connect and reproduce the this under noted article , which was published in Oct 2007 Orion Magazine . Fukuoka was the author of ‘‘The One Straw Revolution,’’
The heart warming [...]
Economic Behaviour & Globalisation & Thought Provoking Entropy | 16 May 2008
This is thought provoking article published in recent Orion Magazine on social consumption hysteria.
The first fully enclosed shopping mall in America, and probably the world, was the Southdale Center in Edina, outside Minneapolis. Built in 1956, it is credited to Austrian immigrant architect Victor Gruen, who wanted to re-create the intimate scale and feel of [...]