Thursday, August 29, 2013

Rhea Becker's Short Attention Span

Rhea Becker's Short Attention Span

What I Did on My One-Hour Boston Staycation

Posted: 28 Aug 2013 12:29 PM PDT

It was a beautiful, 71-degree day so I decided to step out of my office in downtown Boston and stroll around. (My workplace has moved to Downtown Crossing, which has opened up an exciting, new universe of places to go and things to do — Boston Harbor, the food trucks on the Greenway, the Boston […]
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Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Rhea Becker's Short Attention Span

Rhea Becker's Short Attention Span

The Concept of a Minimum Wage is Stupid

Posted: 27 Aug 2013 10:53 AM PDT

I’ve just never liked, or believed in, the concept that one person’s work is more or less important than another person’s. Do you need your garbage picked up? Do you need a haircut? Do you have to have your appendix out? An hour of a person’s time is an hour of a person’s time. So […]
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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Rhea Becker's Short Attention Span

Rhea Becker's Short Attention Span

What’s Climate Change Got To Do with It?: Goodbye, Boston

Posted: 26 Aug 2013 04:29 PM PDT

We know that sea levels are rising due to global climate change. Which cities in the U.S. will be affected. Mine, for one! From Huffpost Green: BOSTON If Hurricane Sandy struck Boston during high tide,  6.6 percent of the city would have been flooded. Water would have reached the steps of City Hall, according to […]
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Saturday, August 17, 2013

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Rhea Becker's Short Attention Span

What’s Climate Change Got To Do with It? The Navel Orange Edition

Posted: 16 Aug 2013 10:20 AM PDT

We are approaching ‘peak oil’ — the point at which it costs more to extract oil from the ground than it is worth. That is why certain people are in a frenzy, pursuing natural gas by fracking. This is an act of desperation. Fracturing the earth and pumping in hundreds of toxic chemicals in order […]
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Wednesday, August 14, 2013

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Rhea Becker's Short Attention Span

Boston’s Secret Farm

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 07:48 AM PDT

The Allandale Farm, which sits on the border of Brookline and Jamaica Plain, Mass., was founded 250 years ago. I live about two miles away from the 110-acre spread. It has been touted for many years as the last working farm in Boston. Last weekend the farm had a special event that included a hayride. […]
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Tuesday, August 13, 2013

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Rhea Becker's Short Attention Span

It’s Time to Give Up Your Lawn

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 08:57 AM PDT

Who doesn’t love a beautiful lawn? Most of us do, but lawns were never meant for everyone. By the 1600s the English lawn had become popular among the nobility. In the 19th century few Americans had any desire for a front lawn, much less access to seeds for growing one. But eventually the craze for […]
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Sunday, August 11, 2013

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Rhea Becker's Short Attention Span

Make Me Rich

Posted: 10 Aug 2013 11:40 AM PDT

Where’s the maiden aunt who plans to leave me a life-changing inheritance?
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