I knew it was going to be ugly, no one had tackled the shed for close to two decades. The last time I had looked…
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It’s taken a very long time to admit it, but yes, I am an environmentalist. There has always been some trepidation and awkwardness towards the…
According to a new report by the Homes for All Campaign of Right to the City, the same destructive speculative forces that produced the U.S. foreclosure crisis has…
The story of water is a story of struggle. In the following videos, three exceptional women explain why and what it will take to win....
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Over the past few months, I have been learning to build a house alongside a new friend, Torsten Ottesjö, architect, lumberjack and pedagogue in carpentry…
Today’s epic scale, inter-twined problems of climate change and inequality demand that we mobilize unprecedented reservoirs of human creativity and collaboration in the spirit of…
A couple of months ago, some friends of mine organized a building session in their warehouse in London. The idea was to gather people interested…
There were several topics I considered for this “How To” post for Dr. Pop. I used to be something of a shade tree mechanic and…
I stole the title from Michel de Certeau, and this isn’t a how-to exactly, more of a how do we, how can we? These days…
The internet, and most specifically social media-oriented websites, are great at being total time burglars. Meaning, you can lose a lot of time looking at…
A Conversation with Angela Caputo Angela Caputo is an award-winning journalist with years of experience. Yet in many ways, she feels like she is just…
I have recently been commissioned to edit a book and sought some guidance from a dear friend of mine whom I once upon a time…
I like to think that my writing journey is just getting started, that my greatest growth and development is still ahead of me. My novels…
“Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some…
It turns out that when you’re working on a PhD, it becomes THE project, THE challenge, THE alpha and omega and immensity of weight that…
One of my major works-in-progress over the past few years has been figuring how to move and transform the popular economics work that has been…
I don’t know if it’s been instructive, but it has been interesting to chart the reactions, negative and positive, Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained has garnered…
Graphic novel is just a shorthand way of saying a comic book in long form. It sounds more grown up to say graphic novel than…
At our last Dr. Pop retreat, we decided that we wanted to experiment with important content in a story-telling way, and decided to create a…