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In 2005 just prior to a road construction project I helped to set up a webcam downtown Muskegon so anyone, from anywhere, could check on the progress. I have taken screen shots from time to time, but nothing like this Flickr user has done. This is fantastic. Click the below link to view the photo set.

http://flickr.com/photos/21186823@N08/sets/72157603525665865/

If you view it as a slide show you can skip to the end and then press the backwards play button to see the progress from start to finish. An amazing look at where we've come from.

Food and Energy; could either be a hotter topic? Not only that they are becoming increasingly intertwined as food prices are causing riots worldwide in large part because more agricultural output is making its way into the energy market. This NYTimes article explores the true energy cost to what we eat. And they even have an interesting video on one of our favorite fruits, the mangosteen. YUM!

Movable Feast Carries a Pollution Price Tag

The more read about this the more you just shake your head. Banks, units of government, lenders, everyone involved just didn't understand what they were involved in. This story of Maricopa, AZ in today's NY Times just blows me away. The most amazing fact is how many of the loans were sub-prime. I thought of subprime loans being more rampant within urban, city areas, but some of the facts presented in this article about the number and types of loans people were taking out in newly developing exurb areas was amazing. And the unsustainability of it all, and the dislocated social mileus that were created really make one think seriously about a societal mindset that can undertake such projects. It will be very interesting to see how this continues to play out.

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