NPR’s Audience Insight & Research group posts information on the radio network’s blog Go Figure, and this blog shares with the world the beliefs and habits of a constituency we know too well already: NPR listeners. Today’s nugget of information is related to the car preferences of NPR fans, and it will come as something Read More
Chicago’s World’s Fair in 1893 gave the world a glimpse of what the American urban lifestyle would become: Shining cities with Olmstedian parks and fountains, active waterfronts, high-rise office and apartment towers powered by this new concept of distributed electricity connecting all of us via copper wire. This new invention allowed us to Read More
The city just finished one of its most wintry Februaries, highlighting once again the inescapable conundrum for landlords: how to keep the power and heat on sufficiently at the best possible cost. It is a seemingly ceaseless challenge-New York already pays the second-highest electricity prices in the nation, behind only Hawaii-one met by Read More
While it will not be smooth or simple to build, I believe we are at the start of a sustainable or green economy. My reasoning here is not simply naive optimism, but recognition of necessity. The false wealth of the period ending has focused many of us on the need for a solid, understandable basis Read More
Inauguration day, 2009 was a thrilling affirmation of the United States and the most hopeful day I can remember. The American President is both our head of government and our head of state. He is both prime minister and king. And before about two million people, and millions more on TV and the web, President Read More
In an absurdly ideal New York City, 13-room co-op spreads overlooking pretty Upper East Side blocks would be reserved for public school teachers and organ donors, but executives who have recently sold their power plant companies to Bear Stearns would politely be forced to live more modestly.
But that’s not the way things are. Read More
The Wall Street Journal this morning has a front-page story on how higher energy costs are curbing Americans’ demand for oil and other fuels. It’s simple economics, apparently–higher prices are slackening demand–and it’s having far-reaching effects on real estate and retail:
U.S. households are making adjustments, too. David Pastor, who owns Fletcher’s Appliance Read More
