"A world map of Involuntary Parks would be an interesting and perhaps enlightening addition to new maps of our newly uninsurable world."

"This man who refused work in Ireland because he had not finished England was called "Capability" Brown, because he would characteristically tell his landed clients that their estates had great "capability" for landscape improvement"

"How much easier would it be for a novelist simply to point out the inhospitable nature of this space, to say what we're all meant to say: that these environments are inhuman, hostile, destructive, bleak. Instead, Ballard is more interested in showing what's on the other side of the inhuman; he describes for us what might happen when you truly settle into "an alien world" all the more uncanny because it was built by humans, and you marinate there, letting its ambiance sink into and alter you."; JG Ballard's spaces

managing "woodlands" as an alternative to sprawl; history of new england as one of recent forest growth (and historical deforestation)

nastiness in the place

nuclear waste storage facility design considerations; how to warn of danger while circumventing curiosity (thought I had already bookmarked this)

whether or not quaint small-town places are apt environmental metaphors

about noticing

on adam's site, from bennett

from sarah

looking at the diverse range of factors (not just food miles) that go into determining a carbon footprint

buddy Jenn Su is in gothamist for Solar One

the Transportation hierarchy; at one point I had a conversation of the self-perceived transportation hierarchy but this one seems to be more statistical/scientific

superinsulated "passivhaus" via adam brock

Adam Brock's sustainability blog (in AZ)