A new ecological community, Rancho San Roque, is being developed in the foothills of the Rincon de la Vieja volcano in Costa Rica. The developer has engaged the services of The Project Office (TPO) to manage the project; Deppat to create the master plan; and Zurcher Architects to create the architectural detail for a private residential community in harmony with nature.
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Critics who think that the U.S. dollar will be replaced by some new global currency are perhaps thinking too small.
On the world horizon looms a new global currency that could replace all paper currencies and the economic system upon which they are based.
On the CSU Campus, there is a storage facility for seeds that is described as "insurance against global change." It houses billions of
seeds under the auspices of a Fort Collins division called The National Center For Genetic Resource Preservation.
Los Angeles Times: P.J. Huffstutter
Reporting from Detroit - On the city's east side, where auto workers once assembled cars by the millions, nature is taking back the land.

Cottonwood trees grow through the collapsed roofs of homes stripped clean for scrap metal. Wild grasses carpet the rusty shells of empty factories, now home to pheasants and wild turkeys.
We were all taught the American Dream, that if you study hard, get a good job and work hard you’ll be able to own things and eventually find economic freedom in your retirement years. Indeed, this “dream” is now being sold all over the world.
This story has been reinforced at nearly every dinner table in America. Once we buy into this fantasy we become shackled and our very existence becomes defined by it.
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