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 […]
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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 […]
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Link-asauraus #4: Food Waste and Flatland
Where we’ve been on the web this week: As a temporary resident of London and curious consumer (of food that is) I’m incredibly dazzled by Bourough Market, one of the city’s hugest and most bountiful destinations for food, flowers, spices and lots more. One of the vendors at Borough is called “Rubies in the Rubble”, […]
Link-asaurus #2
July flew by way too quickly. Ok, maybe we say this about every month, every summer, but we swear, this time it really did. Lots has been happening at moss this week, mainly surrounding our parklet in Andersonville (in case you missed it, check out mentions at the Trib and CBS, or just stop by!) […]
Friday Favorites: Financial Incentives to Recycle
Traveling across the U.S., one encounters subtle (and sometimes glaring) cultural differences between cities. We all fall under the great American umbrella, which makes some of these differences a bit more difficult to put into words. Of course, read any comments section on a travel article dedicated to someone’s hometown, (*ahem*) and you’ll find a blood […]
Friday Favorites: Bikes Lanes
We love bikes a lot at moss, and we’re endlessly fascinated with how cities make themselves more bicycle friendly. From cities built long before cars were invented to towns designed around them, every place presents a unique set of challenges to urban planners seeking to promote this excellent form of free transportation and climate-friendly exercise. This […]
Friday Favorites: Reclaimed and Recycled Leather Shoes
What’s an eco-conscious, vegetarian-leaning gal to do when she loves leather shoes? We don’t need to wax on about the positives or negatives of leather; both are well known and both sides are valid. We can’t imagine a scenario in which leather is considered “humane”, but we’re also hard pressed to think of a better […]
Friday Favorites: Biodegradable Packaging
Packaging – the safe, colorful shell for our goods is important, especially when it outlasts those products. Biodegradable options strive NOT to do that.
Friday Favorites: Minimalism blogs, great posts
Less can be more. Or it can be less. There are extremes: hoarders; or the guy who owns 15 things. But there is also balance. Regardless, while a walk-in closet is some people’s idea of delightful, for me it dredges up memories of my forever unkempt floor, (although to be honest, I would still love a […]