Crap Caper: Chicago’s illegal cache of human waste is tomorrow’s gardening gold.

In an undisclosed storage area in Chicago, Nance Klehm has a hidden stockpile of human excrement. When the 1,500-gallon stash finishes its two-year composting cycle next summer, it will be soil as rich as any you could buy at the store—a gardener’s black gold. If it’s discovered by the authorities before then, it’ll be deemed hazardous and removed. The hoard belongs to Humble Pile…

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Photo by Ji Lee

Two weeks ago, Jordan Seiler’s New York Street Advertising Takeover project whitewashed over 120 illegal billboards in New York City. Then artists began repainting them. Not a bad way to clear out some intrusions into the public sphere, eh? If the city won’t order them taken down, will they protect the owners if people take them out themselves?

More at cronicasbarbaras.com, woostercollective.com, jameswagner.com etc.

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A primer on the best burgeoning bike scenes in North America

In any list of the best biking cities on the continent, Portland, Oregon, would certainly come out on top (with some cries of foul from San Francisco cyclists). But there are plenty of other North American cities where people move on pedal power. And in the wake of the 2008 spike in gas prices and boom in bike sales, municipal governments are attempting to make…

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Why are more public school educators than ever before leaving the field after only a few years in the classroom? Seven teachers take us to school. Anyone who thinks, “Those who can’t do, teach” hasn’t been taking very good notes: Teachers’ work is hard, and getting harder. But don’t just take our word.. Read & Discuss

Whether you want to cruise by the floating pile of plastic in the Pacific or throw some trash into the nation’s largest landfill, GOOD has the dirt on the most spectacular man-made disasters. Read & Discuss

Crap Caper: Chicago’s illegal cache of human waste is tomorrow’s gardening gold.

In an undisclosed storage area in Chicago, Nance Klehm has a hidden stockpile of human excrement. When the 1,500-gallon stash finishes its two-year composting cycle next summer, it will be soil as rich as any you could buy at the store—a gardener’s black gold. If it’s discovered by the authorities before then, it’ll be deemed hazardous and removed. The hoard belongs to Humble Pile…

Read & Discuss

Photo by Ji Lee

Two weeks ago, Jordan Seiler’s New York Street Advertising Takeover project whitewashed over 120 illegal billboards in New York City. Then artists began repainting them. Not a bad way to clear out some intrusions into the public sphere, eh? If the city won’t order them taken down, will they protect the owners if people take them out themselves?

More at cronicasbarbaras.com, woostercollective.com, jameswagner.com etc.

Read & Discuss

A primer on the best burgeoning bike scenes in North America

In any list of the best biking cities on the continent, Portland, Oregon, would certainly come out on top (with some cries of foul from San Francisco cyclists). But there are plenty of other North American cities where people move on pedal power. And in the wake of the 2008 spike in gas prices and boom in bike sales, municipal governments are attempting to make…

Read & Discuss

Why are more public school educators than ever before leaving the field after only a few years in the classroom? Seven teachers take us to school. Anyone who thinks, “Those who can’t do, teach” hasn’t been taking very good notes: Teachers’ work is hard, and getting harder. But don’t just take our word.. Read & Discuss

Whether you want to cruise by the floating pile of plastic in the Pacific or throw some trash into the nation’s largest landfill, GOOD has the dirt on the most spectacular man-made disasters. Read & Discuss