Another look at how Americans became polarized between small-town and big-city voters and the creation of the red/blue divide in the USA, this time from The Guardian.
It’s no secret Donald Trump benefited from rural voters. But Democrat or Republican, they usually tell Katherine Cramer – who has spent a decade visiting residents of small-town Wisconsin – the same thing: it’s the cities that get all the breaks, and then have the gall to look down on them, too
Also, don’t miss The Guardian‘s many articles around Velo-City 2017 this week, including:
- The 8 best cycling innovations: from dockless bikes to solid tyres
- Pedal-ins and car burials: what happened to America’s forgotten 1970s cycle boom?
- Harassment, stigma and fatwas: what is it like to cycle as a woman?
- The new horsemen: how American riot police embraced the bicycle
- Ignore the toxic myth about bike lanes and pollution – the facts utterly debunk it
- ‘We shared the road, our hopes and visions’: a week of cycle conversations
Project Drawdown clearly is focused on lucky 13 (Climate Action), but almost all of the solutions proposed have intersections with one or more other goals. It would be amazing to begin articulating the trade-offs and synergies of these in a rigorous, evidence-based way.
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and Earth Day celebration, and wanted to share a song to celebrate that:
In terms of the 
conscientious privacy measures and enhanced encryption of key electronic communications for more extended communities). I also really appreciate Rachel’s question about ‘sacrificial parts’ – what can we safely give up to survive the time of crisis, without risking the roots? My inclination here is to think about the parts of our lives that we have normalized, but that on deeper consideration we could get by without (perhaps even do better without).
I suspect that most of us in the industrialized world will probably have to be ready to embrace things being 
