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I love discovering an occasional gem of a Website during minutes (hours?) of random Internet browsing, and today I found a real diamond: RUBARB, which stands for “Rusted Up Beyond All Recognition Bikes.”

Started by volunteers in March 2006 — about a half-year after Hurricane Katrina and the levee-failure flooding of New Orleans — RUBARB was inspired by a much-repeated experience of hurricane cleanup crews: pulling bicycle after unused, flood-damaged bicycle from the mountain

How to Boil a Frog's FrogBlog tackles the question of whether environmentalists and the wealthy have both given up on civilization.

Alice Waters' Edible Schoolyard program is making great strides in a charter school that fell victim to Hurricane Katrina. Kids from low-income and poor families are able to grow some of their own food (and cook it) all as a matter of course during their school day.