30th Street and Lafayette Rd is not the most glamorous intersection in town. In fact, on first glance, it looks like a preview of suburban sprawl. It is an area known as Flackville, and contains an old abandoned schoolhouse alongside nondescript strip malls, and pavement as far as the eye can see. The old neighborhood …
Local projects are slowing a bit, so I’ve been focusing a bit more on National and International issues. Not surprisingly, I believe that it is absolutely essential to begin focusing on renewable energy. The Oil Drum has a fantastic post about exciting developments in Solar Thermal energy. Curiosity of this post led me to the …
I’ve added a primitive events calendar to the page. We’ll see how good I am at updating it. If there are any more relevant events, please let me know and I’ll add them. Also, if you know of a better way to list them, I’m all ears. I would like to sort them by date, …
Courtesy of The Good City, this speech by Andres Duany should be required viewing. The speech looks like it happened in the early 1990’s, back when the idea of community planning (instead of traffic engineering) was completely revolutionary. My favorite picture is the tract housing adjacent to the strip mall that is separated by a …
This article in the Star updates the Bio-Town USA project in Reynolds, Indiana. It is unfortunate that the state has chosen to go down the path of corn ethanol. It has the double whammy of raising food prices, as well as being a net energy loser. Out of all of the sources with the potential …
The Star has posted an editorial about a proposal to require sidewalks in Indianapolis. This is a good first step, even if it is sadly belated. However, I hope the city will look to go even further with our antiquated zoning laws. Sidewalks are at their best when they actually interact with buildings instead of …
I’ve added a few new links over the past month or so. I hope the readers of this blog will take advantage of them. Edibles: I can not find a proper link to Edibles in Irvington, but I have heard some good things about this marketplace. CIBA: How could I have not included CIBA?Post-Oil Survival …
My last two posts have been downers, time to end the week on a more uplifting note. 56th and Broadway: 57th and Central 52th and Central: 47th and Central: 42nd and Central: Finally, dinner at Indy’s Mecca for good cheap food:
You would be forgiven if you missed this little blurb in the Indianapolis Business Journal on Monday. The blurb is 4 sentences long, but I believe it may say quite a bit about where we are headed. It mentions the rising price of asphalt, which is manufactured from oil. Counties are now looking at the …
I started this blog about a year ago. It started, like many blogs, as a therapeutic exercise. I needed an outlet. Now, I feel it is time to think about the central mission of this blog. It’s written right under the banner:”Dedicated to a sustainable Indianapolis.” With gas prices continuing to rise, it is starting …