Buenos Aires Couple of things that have passed across my desk recently that are worth noting so I will share. One is an architectural award that was recently announced by the American Association of School Administrators for the ACORN Woodland small school in Oakland, California. We received an honorable mention from this school for the design …
Category: Personal Writings
Argentina Workers Win on Sundays!
Colonia, Uruguay From the point I landed the ACORN Argentina organizers have been briefing me on the exciting developments with the big multi-national retail supermarket chains, Wal-Mart and Carrefour. Seems at mid-week their union surprisingly led a large march of the workers from the stores into the city of Buenos Aires to protest the fact …
Oil Shale
Miami I learned from Nicco (see last blog) that no one tries to raise money on the web on the weekend, because fewer people are reading. This lets me indulge myself by sharing some observations on oil shale, while no one is looking. This is a little like a secret admission. I both know a …