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MASS TRANSIT PRODUCTION IN THE U.S. With support from the Seymour Melman estate administered by the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C., as well as the MacArthur Foundation in Chicago, I have been investigating how defense firms attempted to develop civilian products and how the domestic-based mass transit industry could be expanded in the United States. My interest is to explore possibilities for coalitions of cities to cooperate in procurement and design (if not production) of ma… Continue

'Globalfinland' is site on development issues, in Finnish language only. My entry last week is on possible BOP technologies, from everyman's hand held digitiser, deep down to 'appropriate technology' archives. Continue

This was first written on August 3rd 2007. I thought I would share my thinking behind my involvement in this subject area. ~ nb Even as I have just written about sustainable design and ecodesign, I find myself pondering the larger issues at stake. I didn't set out to go green and I'm not wholly sure where what my outlook is on this to… Continue