[MCN] Ag in the city/Wild in the city

[Lance Olsen]

"Practiced in cities across Europe and with a 
growing presence in the northern United States, 
eco-pasture is an alternative and eco-friendly 
way to maintain urban green spaces with the help 
of our grass-eating friends. In the case of 
Biquette à Montréal, the herbivores in question 
are sheep. These helpful ruminants do an amazing 
job of replacing lawn mowers .... , fertilize the 
soil naturally and help increase urban 
biodiversity by making the city more inviting to 
bird and insect species that usually make 
themselves scarce ....."

Photo from the Montreal park show urban kids watching sheep

"'People of all ages have told us what it means 
to them to connect with nature, and how peaceful 
it is to have animals in the middle of downtown,' 
she says."

http://blog.wwf.ca/blog/2016/07/29/montreal-goes-wild-for-sheep/





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"Still, the boom of the 1980s was unique. Not 
only did creditors lend more freely than they had 
in the past, but the government intervened more 
actively than it had ever done before to absorb 
the inevitable losses."

"The fundamental investment question is whether 
even the government is big enough to underwrite, 
with good money, the losses born of the lending 
practices of the 1980s."

"By standing behind good banks and bad banks 
alike, the government in effect removed the 
oldest charter in banking -- that is, 
safekeeping."

"In the early 1990s a number of long-running 
trends were apparently cresting Š. Tommy 
Mullaney, eleven, of Crownsville, Maryland, 
returned home from camp in the summer of 1990 to 
find his name inscribed on a MasterCard complete 
with a $5,000 credit line. 'I jumped up and down 
and said Wow - the hologram was cool,' Tommy told 
the Washington Post. 'But it sure made me wonder 
who was running that bank'."

James Grant. Money of the Mind: Borrowing and 
Lending in America from the Civil War to Michael 
Milken. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1992.


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