Archive for February, 2006
Critical Mass Feb 06–Why We Ride and Do’s and Don’ts!
Critical Mass rode again this past Friday… a much larger than usual ride, maybe 1,500 or more… got very spread out, at one point stretching from Stockton and Broadway all the way to the Cannery in Fisherman’s Wharf. I and Joel found ourselves in cell contact from front to back and managed to halt the [...]
Where Did Science Come From? Where is it Going?
Clifford Conner’s A People’s History of Science appears at a most useful moment. The ice sheets are melting, biodiversity is shrinking at an unprecedented rate, climate change is altering weather patterns and shorelines and might even shift our sense of the future itself. Pandemic disease is lurking in the vortex of urbanized humanity and industrialized [...]
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- Getting a Head Start on the “End of the World”!
- The Future Changes its Spots!
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- “Jobs” Don’t Work!
- “Corporate Greed” is Not the Problem!
- A Car-Free Future?
- Whose Streets? People vs. Automobiles: The 20th Century Battle over Cities, Streets, and Freeways
- “¿Calles de quién?” (Whose Streets? en Español)
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Nowtopia is now available!
Ten Years That Shook the City now out!
Vanished Waters: A History of San Francisco's Mission Bay
After the Deluge, My Novel Published in 2004
The Political Edge: Edited Collection of Essays on San Francisco Politics
Bad Attitude: The Processed World Anthology (The best of the first 20 issues, published 1990)
Reclaiming San Francisco: History, Politics, Culture
Critical Mass: Bicycling’s Defiant Celebration
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Ten Years That Shook the City now out!
Vanished Waters: A History of San Francisco's Mission Bay
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After the Deluge, My Novel Published in 2004
The Political Edge: Edited Collection of Essays on San Francisco Politics
Bad Attitude: The Processed World Anthology (The best of the first 20 issues, published 1990)
Reclaiming San Francisco: History, Politics, Culture
Critical Mass: Bicycling’s Defiant Celebration
More blogs about San Francisco
