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300dpi is huge. screen dpi is 72 and you can get good print quality at not much higher.

Russell,

Have you ever thought of submitting an op-ed to LA mag or another relevent publication? Seriously.

3. Architects (and some engineers) in some states have the power to stamp planting plans and other landscape architecture projects, thereby lessening the demand for more specialized LA services.

Wait a second..not to derail the discussion, but weren’t you arguing against this point a month or two ago? The way I’m reading this says to me that the…[Read more]

Guess my reply was too boring. Let me rephrase:
I think a lot of Tea Party participators in the US don’t really understand composting. If you explain a compost pile or worm bin to Tea Partiers, they often just say “EEEEEEEWWW!”, even if it would probably keep their garbage from smelling and attracting fruit flies and lowering their land value. Tea…[Read more]

Rob, the thing is, the Tea baggers don’t have ANYTHING to do with the ‘don’t fence me in’ ethos..It IS a nice song, isn’t it….They are racists…The ‘don’t fence me in’ is much more personified by the ACLU. We have the bill of rights.We don’t want to be wiretapped, tortured, have our land grabbed for big business, or have insurance agents run…[Read more]

Trace, I wasn’t defending them or extolling them: just pointing out a factor in whether the US will do what it takes to require sustainable practices. The “don’t fence me in” ethos runs deep in the US history and psyche. If we want Change, we need to understand where people are

Rob, I still think you are kidding..The “Tea bag Party” is incoherent – accepting medicare, as most older white people do, but objecting to ‘big government’. It’s a joke..There is a far more insidious, well-subsidized busness lobbying group that the GOP represents, that sends these people their buttons and t–shirts….Tea bagging is not worth two…[Read more]

Not a joke, really. Apparently adherents of the “Tea Party” philosophy (?!) oppose taxation and government control. I am not clear what the difference is from Libertarians, but my point is that IF they represent more than the privileged few (as recent polls suggest they are) then how can the US Government accomplish imposing taxes, restrictions,…[Read more]

Claudia, thank you for listening..My comment on development patters was more of a comment on actual patterns than on perceptions of speed.. Good public transit systems benefit from dense city centers that are walkable. These town patterns on the european landscape make it easy to impose a public transit system.. We have a development pattern that…[Read more]

Thanks, Trace One, for the heads up on the trash incinerator article – just read it. It’s interesting that the U.S. state and municipal governments are shying away from it because of public perception and difficulty finding locations for it. It’s interesting to note that new environmental laws in Europe forced the switch to new, cleaner…[Read more]

I don’t think it’s just extremist conservatives working against that sort of policy in the US. I think a lot of people in the US don’t really understand composting. If you explain a compost pile or worm bin to them, they often just say “EEEEEEEWWW!”, even if it would probably keep their garbage from smelling and attracting fruit flies. They just…[Read more]

I don’t believe the ‘tea party’ knows what it is, besides against Obama because he is black..I think Rob was making a joke? The Tea Party is something not to be taken seriously, until they take themselves seriously, instead of speaking and behaving like buffoons.

That said, Republicans say they want smaller government, and have been working…[Read more]

Please keep posting and updating this discussion blog.

Sorry if my wording was confusing, but I am waiting on the results for my last test. No, I am not currently licensed. My question however was whether or not I should be considering getting a CLARB record once I do (hopefully soon) get my license.

If having a current license in one state makes it just as easy to get reciprocity in another state,…[Read more]

That’s true Rob, the ‘political temperament’ of a country drives what citizens are willing to do for the environment. This last year I’ve been living overseas and have to confess I haven’t followed much on the Tea Party movement, but I suspect the Party would not favor public policy that curbs individual ‘rights’ to balance environmental…[Read more]

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“Could that work in the U.S.?”

I think that rather depends on whether the “Tea Party” movement is a media fad or the will of the people.