This year, Guardian feature writers went above and beyond to capture the essence of a year that left many on their knees. Three years later, a post about a Facebook group called Sierra Nevada Geoengineering Awareness popped up in her newsfeed. Given her environmentalism and hippie-dippy aesthetic, this shocked me.”Buying a $500 house in Detroit: bidding on the soul of my cityDrew Philp was only 23 when he bought a shell of a Detroit house at an auction. In the process, he quickly realized that Detroit was “just America with the volume turned all the way up”. “This place is the symbol of the wide gulf between rural America and big cities.” She was right.

Source: The Guardian December 30, 2017 12:00 UTC