That Can-Do Spirit

A couple cool links for you:

The CTA Tattler covers CTA news AND conversations overheard on the trains.

C-Pop beat me to posting a couple of maps I saw at the GreenFest at McCormick this year.  The typical image of the city is that it's a heatspot that contributes to global warming.  Well, per acre, I guess that's true.  But the key stat should be the CO2 emissions on a per capita basis.  Mostly because of less automobile use, city dwellers contribute much less to global warming.  More kudos to C-Pop and to the Center for Neighborhood Technology, which introduced the I-Go cars to Chicago.

Pic-right is not of Hyde Park, past or future (I would guess).  No, that's the Gyeonggi English Village in South Korea, a new planned community where 13-year-olds come to spend a week of English Language Immersion.

My favorite part of the story is this:

Jeffrey Jones, an American business executive who has long worked in South Korea, is the director of English Village. He says the project started with a phone call from Gyeonggi Governor Sohn Hak-kyu.

"He said, I've promised the electorate during my campaign that I'd build an English village," said Jones. "I said, 'what's that?' He said, 'I don't know what it is, but I want to do it - can you help me?'"

The trees in the village are somewhere else, apparently.