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East and West Jerusalem are essentially divided by a Mandate-era highway. St. Joseph and Benton Harbor, Michigan, two of the most hypersegrated cities in the north, are divided by a river. Notes from the Fault is about the lines of division, between cities, cultures, socioeconomic demographics, and worldviews – and about the methods we use to bridge these fault-lines.

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Notes from the Fault · 3M ago

A Brief Trip to Rwanda (with the required reference to coffee)

In early January, 2012, I took a brief trip to Rwanda with the Global Knowledge Initiative to work with a team at the National University of Rwanda on collaborative research to build off the success of the Rwandan specialty coffee industry. Here are a few photos from the trip:

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Notes from the Fault · 6M ago

GKI at Black Rock City (and some photos)

Recently, Sara Farley, the COO of the organization I’ve been fortunate to work with for the last year, The Global Knowledge Initiative, was asked to give a TEDx talk at Black Rock City (ie. Burning Man). The video finally came out online, and I just wanted to pass it along, as well as encourage you

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Notes from the Fault · 6M ago

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Coffee station workers sort freshly washed coffee at Maraba Coffee Washing Station

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Notes from the Fault · 7M ago

A Few Companies Helping Make Coffee Work for Rwanda (Happy Coffee Day)

You say you want to help poor people, and your eye seems to be twitching. You might want to grab a coffee. A couple months ago I was in Rwanda for work, work that fortunately for me has to do with Rwandan coffee – one of my favorite varietals. While in Rwanda, and since I’ve [...]

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Notes from the Fault · 9M ago

Martin Luther King and Rick Perry

I want to focus as little on Rick Perry as possible here, but do want to, a few days before dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, throw out a couple quotes that, although not entirely related (I think when Rick Perry says “Washington DC” he doesn’t actually mean “Washington DC”), do pro

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Notes from the Fault · 9M ago

Back Alleys, Bathrooms, and Back seats of taxis

Informal Sector 1: When I have thought about the informal sector, generally I have been in a university classroom, listening to a professor hold forth or students argue about measurement or what the sector’s size means to an economy. The informal sector (depending on if you include agriculturalists

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Notes from the Fault · 10M ago

Don’t Mess with Texas

When I realized I got had, I was standing in the Dar es Salaam airport Duty Free shop, a place I don’t generally associate with sober reflection. When I realized I got had, my first thought was, “it was the damn shoes.” The shoes were Converse All-Stars, and the guy wearing them was friendly, seemed

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Notes from the Fault · 1Y ago

Nationalism is the Crutch of the Morally Weak

Note: This piece was written in spring, 2009 in Amman, Jordan. I thought I might try to get it published (alright, I did try to get it published). Failing that: to the blogosphere. Nationalism is the crutch of the morally weak. I was standing at one of the University of Jordan’s bus stations, waitin

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Notes from the Fault · 1Y ago

On the Bus to My Horizon

When your bus stops at a village in the Honduran hills and passengers enter and exit at the front, fruit, drink, and food sellers often step into the aisle with their baskets over their heads, shouting “ ‘Fresca, fresca, fresca,” or “pappas, pappas ricas” rapidly. For moments at these stops and betw

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Notes from the Fault · 1Y ago

Trainride

By Keiko Andress An overweight Chinese woman with her lacquered black-curls pinned carefully atop her heavily made up face was chatting animatedly in Mandarin to the quiet little man on the bottom bunk across from her and directly below mine. And then a thin, brown, tired-looking woman carrying two

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