Interesting or Curious! At least to me and I hope to you! And sometimes, just fun!
Formerly “And This Week …… “. I often found myself scrambling to put together a selection of articles, stories, and / or quotations. But expect some of the same content! In one recent newsletter, I explored the origins of the expression “Woke” because I was interested how it became an insult! I will move that kind of exploration to this section!
Sometimes the topics will be serious or just something that pisses me off. Sometimes, I hope, this section will be nothing but fun.
What Have I Been Reading – July 30, 2021
Learning to live well on this fragile planet is far more important than dreaming about the next one. Tim Jackson, Professor of Sustainable Development, and Director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP), University of Surrey. Tim Jackson, The Alternative UK, July 24, 2021 Essay – the Plutocrat Space Race Fear of […]
What have I been reading? July 20, 2021
Enjoy summer, but read! “Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.” – Frank Lloyd Wright The Monocle Minute, July 13, 2020 Urbanism / USA – ROAD HOGGING Stop building freeways through our towns and cities ! I have been […]
What Have I Been Reading? July 9, 2021
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.” Ernest Benn Lexington, The Economist, July 3, 2021 There goes the Neighbourhood “What gets lost when national politics eats everything“ I consider this a cautionary tale. We cannot afford complacency. The article […]
What Have I Been Reading? June 29, 2021
A cruise ship at port at Osanbashu Pier, Yokohama, Japan
What Have I Been Reading? June 19, 2021
Quote of the Week “A walkable community has to have useful things for people to walk to.” ― Philip Langdon, Within Walking Distance: Creating Livable Communities for All Jacob Gotta, Propodo.com- June 13, 2021 THE GROWING POLITICAL PUSHBACK AGAINST FREEWAYS If you haven’t clued in by now, you haven’t been reading everything I write. I […]
What Have I Been Reading? June 15, 2021
“Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don’t like. We can only live together in that way. But if we […]
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The time is past when humankind thought it could selfishly draw on exhaustible resources. We know now the world is not an exhaustible commodity. François Hollande, ex-president of the French Republic on Climate Change Maxine Bédat, Fast Company – June 1, 2021 SEE THE HORRIFYING PLACE WHERE YOUR OLD CLOTHES GO TO DIE Do you […]
What have you been reading? May 27, 2021
“Everyone is in favour of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.” Winston S. Churchill LONG SLIDE LOOMS FOR WORLD POPULATION, WITH SWEEPING RAMIFICATIONS The […]
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Russia and China are winning friends around the world with COVID-19 vaccines.
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Is the sun rising on a return to living?
And this Week – April 30
This is a new feature of At Waters Edge. I hope to send it out each Friday. The first three articles tie in neatly with my newsletters on solving the housing crisis. Monocle Minute on Design – April 28, 2021 SMARTEST RESIDENTIAL BUILDING / 14 ACCOMMODATIONS Inside job The breathtaking design for this residential building […]