The Burnham Plan laid the groundwork for our city’s green space and set aside the lake shore path. Thank Daniel Burnham every time you see green in Chicago.
Case Studies
Spectacular Portraits of South Africans and their Bikes
As a group of avid bike enthusiasts, there’s little we like more than seeing other people love their bikes. This collection of portraits South Africans with their bikes photographed by Stan Englebrecht and Nic Grobler by is available in a kickstarter funded book, unsurprisingly called “Bicycle Portraits.” The whole project is an amazing union of […]
Link-asaurus #11: The case for BRT + Whole Foods ups transparency on produce, flowers
Where we’ve been on the web this week: as the weather gets colder, there is lots of great news on the green front to lighten our spirits. John Greenfield writes a thoroughly researched piece on examples of successful BRT lanes, including ones that have banned left turns on major streets (a point of contention in […]
Friday Favorites: A narrative map of Chicago
map of Chicago from 1910, via Forgotten Chicago We are pretty obsessed with urban studies over here, whether it involves reading up on the history of Beverly for a new meadery project or finding out about native plant species in Illinois. We thought we’d share some of our favorite Chicago-centric blogs with you, especially those that […]
Link-asaurus #10: Spring weather, produce and the trouble with parking stickers
What an absolutely gorgeous Chicago Spring day, the perfect kick-off to the weekend. Here’s where we’ve been on the web this week: Though we want to be outdoors, spending time inside with some of this season’s incredible produce is an equally magnetic option. In the spirit of taking a break from the computer screen, we […]
Friday Favorites: The Future of Flight
The recent grounding of Boeing’s Dreamliner 787 has gotten us thinking: this Dreamliner has a few marked improvements, but nothing mind-blowing. Honestly, flight isn’t exactly where we (or various sci-fi movies) thought it would be in 2013. We’ve got conflicting agendas: people are wanting to travel more than ever as instant communication brings us together […]
Linka-saurus #9: Valentine's Day
The photo above is a picture I took in Paris, purportedly the city of love. Although romantic gestures often involve elements native to the countryside (beautiful flowers, for instance), there is something romantic about cities. Even in the grayest and coldest weather, they never cease to dazzle with lights and winding streets to undiscovered places. […]
Linka-asaurus #8: Ornithology Breakthroughs and Pedestrian Plazas
This week as the snow falls and news is released about Chicago’s BRT system, we’ve had the future of transportation on our minds (well, no surprises there.) In a less literal sense of the word, we’re also enjoying being transported to a twittering forest in Australia to hear beautiful recordings from the world’s largest natural sound […]
Link-asaurus #7: Driverless Cars and Artificial Islands
source: “Blue Plan” in Copenhagen, from PK3 and Tredje Natur, from Dezeen.com Audi got blessings from the forces that be to begin test driving its driverless cars on public streets. There are many implications of the entry of driverless cars into our daily commutes. More texting with less accidents is one. Perhaps decreased emissions from […]
Link-asaurus #6: Not Quite The End of the World Edition
Worrying about impending doom will make you hungry, so we’ve spent a lot of time thinking about snacks over the past week. But, the sun is out after days of unrelenting cloud cover, a brilliant reminder that we’ll get a few extra minutes of sunlight every 24 hours until summer—and that we’ll most likely have […]
Link-asaurus #5: Barcelona bike lanes, carpooling, and solving food waste
We’ve been pretty fixated on transportation this week, as our web history attests: For International Ride-Sharing Day, Treehugger compiled a list of carpooling apps to coordinate schedules with friends, friends of friends or strangers. Montreal’s service was banned for being too effective and competing with local buses. BRT lanes anyone? We’d like to amend our post on […]
Cradle to Cradle Certified Office Supplies [UPDATED 03/17]
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