Planet City in a Bowl... An Eco Town Takes Root

A poor community on the outskirts of Johannesburg paints its future green.
By the year 2007, for the first time in history, humanity will be primarily an urban species — homo sapiens urbanis.


Over 75 per cent of all North Americans and Europeans already live in cities, and in a few years most Southern citizens will have joined them. Each week another million people either move to or are born

NJ Announces 64 Mile Route to Connect Greenway

The New Jersey Department of Transportation in partnership with the East Coast Greenway Alliance, the nonprofit organization developing a 2600-mile trail connecting cities of the eastern seaboard for non-motorized users, has unveiled the new trail route for the East Coast Greenway through northern New Jersey.

NJDOT’s study identified a 64-mile route through 5 counties and 22 municipalities

Charm City Powerhouse, an Olympian Sandwich

Before I had the good sense to become a vegetarian I would often eat lunch in a small health food store near Johns Hopkins Campus on Charles St - probably closed now.

The store was staffed with students in robes more health gurus than short order cooks who served a variety of great veg deli-like food, meditational tsatskes and a jolt of energy called the "Powerhouse."

While everything in the