fictionalhistory
yellow coal, our only hope for a new motive power
This story, Yellow Coal, written by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky in the 1920s deserves some kind of geek medal for imagining the exact current nature of the climate weirding and anticipating the X-Prize competition we would invent to solve it. Astounding.
The economic barometer at Harvard University had continually pointed to bad weather. But even its exact readings [...]
BLDGBLOG: comp lit construction
I do wonder, meanwhile, if the temporary micro-culture of the construction site has been adequately documented by architectural historians. Industrial yards have certainly had their day, from documentaries about WWII dockworkers to historical surveys of Solidarity; and construction sites have obviously long been a focus for painters and photographers.
But have literature and history given the [...]
Inventing Green by Alexis Madrigal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
