Cities can radiate trauma. In this video, Charles Shaw examines how an American city—Detroit, Mich.—is, itself radiating…
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Link Love: The Best Supermodel Street Style + Juicing at Home + PETA and Detroit
This week’s Link Love, we catch up with supermodel street style, PETA’s generous offer to Detroit and Southw…
Welcome to the United States of Whole Foods Markets: Is Organic Food Saving America?
Whole Foods Market, the Austin-based supermarket chain, began opening doors around the country more than thirty years ag…
100 Abandoned Houses: Detroit as Canvas
Beautiful detritus or a grim reminder of what has become of one of America’s most important cities? Detroit was once the…
Porn Is the New Black
How porn has become the slang term for everything from food to literature to ruin. I’ve been thinking a lot about mastur…
The Friday Five, Vol. 4
A weekly roundup of EcoSalon’s top stories. Ruin porn is a nasty thing and yet our objectification of all thing crumblin…
You Know It When You See It
Ruin porn and the objectification of Detroit. Can someone explain to me what, exactly, “ruin porn” is? Recently, it’s be…
Making It In Motown: Give the People What They Want
“Real Americans Buy American.” Growing up in the Motor City in the 1970s, that ubiquitous message, proudly displayed on …