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Gilbert’s Bedrock Is Beginning To Think Outside The Automobile
I attended an event last night hosted by Transportation Riders United in One Woodward. The second floor conference room has some great views of the city at sunset, thanks to Michigan legend Minoru Yamasaki‘s affinity for floor-to-ceiling windows. (Oh, I … Continue reading
Posted in Public transit, Transit infrastructure, Urban Planning
Tagged autonomous vehicles, bedrock, bedrock detroit, dan gilbert, Detroit, kevin bopp, minoru yamasaki, mobility, motor city freedom riders, new mobility, prasanth gururaja, Quicken Loans, royal transportation, shared use mobility center, transportation riders united, TRU
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Monopolies Kill My Dreams Of Better Things
Today a DTE representative uttered probably the least inspiring words that one can ever hear in a volunteer workgroup meeting. “We looked into that,” Mr. Randazzo said, “and we determined that it would be too expensive.” The place was Walker-Miller … Continue reading
Canada Trip II – Montréal and Language
I arrived punctually in Montreal, relatively un-traumatized from a twelve hour train trip. I fell asleep for a power nap while listening to my audiobook on the birth of gangsta rap (highly recommended, by the way), checked into my improbably … Continue reading
Posted in Language
Tagged culture, french, language, montreal, quebec, quebecois, rene levesque
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Canada Trip I – Via Rail to Toronto
I’m in Montreal and Toronto this week for a program through Kogod. The topic is marketing in a cross-cultural setting, and it’s been the first class whose content I’ve actually really enjoyed. One article– definitely the most conceptually interesting I’ve … Continue reading
Well, World, We Had A Good Run
I guess this is it. The Amazon, the globe’s largest carbon sink, is burning, the yield curve has inverted, there are trillions of dollars of negative interest debt on global markets and even in corporate bonds, and the US government … Continue reading
Posted in Urban Planning
Tagged alt right, amazon, austerity, bull market, corporate debt, debt, far right, interest, mass shootings, mexico border, neoliberalism, nihilism, stock market, trump, white supremacy, yield curve
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Happy Canada Day!
This Canada Day, I drove all the way from Detroit to celebrate in a foreign country (a.k.a. “across the river”)– to buy gas in a province where that gas is subjected to a carbon tax. This is admittedly mostly so … Continue reading
The End Of Coal: A War Without Belligerents
News broke last week that coal producer Wyoming-based Cloud Peak Energy is filing for bankruptcy. Let’s face it: the future of the dirty power source hasn’t looked bright for a solid decade now. Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling through “fracking” … Continue reading
Posted in Coal, Environment, Renewable Energy, Urban energy
Tagged carbon, coal, coal mining, markets, photovoltaics, solar, war on coal
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The Ilitch Perfidy Makes It To The Media Majors– Now What?
With HBO now coming after Detroit’s second-favorite billionaire family in the city’s Holy Trinity– comprising the Ilitches, Dan Gilbert, and Matty Moroun- a city waits with bated breath to figure out what’s next. The Time Warner subsidiary, which is known … Continue reading