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For the past year, I've been letting my curiosity drive my research. At least, I tried to. It took me a while to get good at it. I've been on a makeshift sabbatical, a word which implies exploration. I started, however, with a clear idea of

Summary The Geography of Risk, Gilbert Gaul's "meditation on the question of risk" explores climate change and coastal resilience through specific anecdotes of development and devastation in the past century. From there, he draws out the secular trends in wealth, mortgage accessibility, flood insurance, and local

This is a public notepad for actively processing research and ideas. It contains incomplete synthesis and a good amount of raw data. Summary The Louisiana Coastal Master plan is published every six years as an assessment of the present and future state of the Mississippi River Delta, its outlying coastal

Summary A survey of cooperative structures in the city of New Orleans in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, Cooperatives in New Orleans: Collective Action and Urban Development (Anne Gessler) necessarily ranges to encompass aspects of co-op proliferation across the Gulf Cost/Southeast regions. It's predominantly an exploration

Summary The Fight to Save the Town (Michelle Wilde Anderson) is an excellent exploration of the conditions that lead to government failure, and the societal efforts that can bring it back. Beyond the civic context, it's useful for anyone wondering why a centralized structure is failing in a

It is snowing slightly outside, the kind of flakes that require you to focus intently on a small pocket of air just to see them come down. They disappear otherwise, with each movement of your eyes. On the road below my window, cars zip past, oblivious to the conditions and

It's time I began working on a small piece of the Internet. I've benefited so much from the knowledge community it has assembled and given so little back. The reality is that writing here will serve me far more than anyone else. The debt grows, but