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8 Jun 2064022822507217324

V. interesting paper: I especially like the notion of "ruinous ruins"

Alexandre Monnin @aamonnz

1) I’m sharing a preprint that matters a lot to me and to my work on ecological redirection:

Distinguishing Sustainability from Durability: Hidden Convergences and the Logic of Redirection

https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/ey4aj_v2
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Population density across the American Colonies, 1775

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Thank you @wallpapermag !

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deoron copenhagen 3daysofdesign.
ambient one. know your air.

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