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Fritz Haeg’s Animal and Edible Estates, a lecture report

About 60 people were in the American Philosophical Society Museum’s Ben Franklin auditorium on a hot, blustery September day for a lecture by Fritz Haeg, creator of Animal Estates and Edible Estates. Haeg is an artist, architect, designer and avid amateur gardener, and his projects involve communities — of people growing their own food on their own front yards; or of animals, where he creates housing for wild animals in cities where once there were many and now there are few or none (eg New York).

Jared Diamond – Collapse and political will at the Philomathean Society’s annual talk

Irvine Auditorium was full for UCLA physiology professor Jared Diamond‘s talk last week. The talk was the Philomathean Society‘s Annual Oration on the theme of water, and the Pulitizer Prize winning author of Guns, Germs and Steel (1997) talked about the role of water management in the collapse of civilizations. As topical as tsunami or Hurricane Katrina, water management, done well, as it is in Iceland or the Netherlands can help a society flourish for thousands of years. Mis-managed, as it was for years in New Orleans’ inadequate levee system the result is billions of dollars of reparations and a ... More » »

Philadelphia and its Manufactures— Jacob Hellman, Phillip Taylor

August 20th, Art in Age of Mechanical Reproduction.– Pretty tickled by this presentation. Jacob [i.e. speaker Jacob Hellman] and I have, on numerous occasions, swapped ideas on the arcane beauty of both former Philadelphian industry and its currently-aching hell-neighborhoods. But rather than getting lost in the mythos and delirium, as I always have, Jacob remained admirably embedded in the history of it all; drawing from research, anecdotes, and his definitive resource, Philadelphia and its Manufactures, by Edwin T. Freedley.