Some items of interest:
- "Street Markets and Shantytowns Forge the World's Urban Future."
- BerkShares. Alternative currency in MA. "The BerkShares are highlighting that we can survive by producing things locally."
- A Norton study calculates the cost of global cybercrime at $114 billion annually. Fuzzy math shows $271 billion more in lost time.
- String from recycled PET bottles in Brazil. Video.
- The Center. A 20 square mile model of a U.S. city to be built in New Mexico to "test everything from renewable energy innovations to intelligent traffic systems, next-generation wireless networks and smart-grid cyber security systems."