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Headless torso, spared killers and back to Jonestown + this day in history w/Mark David Chapman sentenced and our song of the day by Propagandhi on your Morning Monarchy for August 24, 2017.

Man-made climate change, and the interconnected environmental catastrophe more broadly constitute the most urgent crisis facing humanity. It has come about as the result of a certain way of life, a materialistic approach to living in which greed and excessive consumption has been championed.

Roads and transportation are a major subject of sustainable development and smart cities (Photo: Challiyan. Source: Wikicommons)
Miles Elliott
21st Century Wire

Grenfell syncs, Banksy busted and secret songs + this day in history w/the Teflon Don and our song of the day by Rooney on your Morning Monarchy for June 23, 2017.

This morning your smart phone alarm went off 10 minutes earlier than usual. The alarm is tailored to your morning routine, which is monitored by your smart watch. It takes into account the weather forecast, the day of the week, as well as the fact that you went to bed late last night. Your phone buzzes again – it’s time to leave, if you want to catch the bus.

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A brief 2015 video report from the WSJ about the Airbus all-electric airplane, the E-Fan. Airbus is not the only company doing this. Go here for an interesting video about Pipistrel's electric plane.by Gaius PubliusA brief follow-up to our recent piece on the coming death of Big Oil as a business (see "The Dying Fossil Fuel Industry").

Does Toronto have too little or too much public space?
Depends on what the “public” space is used for.
This seems such an obvious answer but one of Toronto’s best urban affairs writers can’t seem to separate the private cars from the public space they destroy.

"The system has been rigged by politicians to prevent change. Any government that attempts to deregulate the transportation sector, will be met with obstacles in the legislature, resulting in a populist opposition winning subsequent elections."

Flying United Airlines was never a pleasant business. Functional, sterile, with staff more appropriately disposed to a deep freeze morgue than the hot blood of enthusiastic living, the airline was always an entity you wished ill towards, even as the flight started taking off. Dreams of flying  a Gulf carrier or Singapore Airlines would fill the mind in the uneasy sleep.