Land Use

Agenda 21, UN's Sustainability Measure, Banned By New Hampshire House

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Bike Paths, Tea Party Movement, Video, Un-Agenda-21, Land Use, Mike Slattery Kansas, Kansas Politics, New Hampshire Politics, Christopher Serlin, Anne Cartwright, Sustainability, Agenda 21, Zoning Laws, Arizona Politics, Tea Party, Politics News

The Tea Party-controlled New Hampshire House of Representatives voted Wednesday afternoon to ban implementation of policies connected to the United Na...

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Kansas Lawmakers Condemn U.N. Sustainability Plan

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Goldwater Institute, Un Agenda 21, Bill Otto, Video, Mike Slattery Kansas, Land Use, Kansas Politics, Charlotte O'hara, State and Local Government, Sustainability, Agenda 21, Dennis Hedke, Sean-Gatewood, Politics News

The Republican-controlled Kansas House of Representatives on Thursday adopted a resolution condemning the United Nations' Agenda 21 environmental acti...

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Help Stop a Proposed Ordinance That Will Devastate Affordable Housing in Los Angeles

Mark Horvath | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Land Use, Poverty, Invisiblepeopletv, Homelessness, Mark Horvath, Sober Living, invisiblepeople.tv, Homeless, Los Angeles, Invisible People, Video, Impact News

Sober living homes are a crucial component to rehabilitating drug addicts and people getting out of prison. There is also a huge housing need for people who cannot qualify for SSI, yet for whatever reason are not employable.

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The Global Economy Depends On China's Rural Population

The New York Times | Joshua Muldavin | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: U.S. Economy, World Economy, Beijing, Land Use, Global Economy, Chinese Economy, Chinese Government, China Human Rights, China Economy, China, Rural China, Business News

Two weeks ago peasants in Wukan, a fishing village in the prosperous southern Chinese province of Guangdong, took over their village, throwing out loc...

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Virtue Grain & Feed's Outdoor Deck Permit Goes Before Virginia Supreme Court

The Huffington Post | Arin Greenwood | Posted 01.03.2012

Read More: Virginia, Va., Law, Alexandria Circuit Court, Video, Old Dominion Boat Club, Land Use, Old Town Alexandria, Alexandria, DC Real Estate, Virginia Supreme Court, Virtue Feed & Grain, Alexandria Waterfront Redevelopment, DC News

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Ah, the "Virtues" of outdoor dining. They're about to go before the Virginia Supreme Court. In May 2010, Alexandria's Planning C...

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When OWS Protesters Become Trespassers

Jeff Norman | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Rights, Brookfield Office Properties, Economic Justice, Land Use, Mayor Bloomberg, Demonstrators, Occupiers, Democracy, Trespassing, Land Grab, Protesters, Occupy Wall Street, Zucotti Park, Ows, Nypd, Decision Making, #Occupywallstreet, New York News

Is fighting economic injustice such a righteous pursuit that it entitles Occupy Wall Street protesters and their disciples to indefinitely control whatever space they invade?

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Nurturing Arts Districts for the New Economy

John M. Eger | Posted 11.13.2011

Read More: Creativity, Public Policy, Education, Art, Land Use, Design, Innovation, Real Estate, Cities, Arts News

The economy is in the toilet and it is hard, some would say impossible, to talk about the future. "Arts districts"? You have got to be kidding.

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Gas is Greener? Smearing Renewables Over Land Use Exposes Ignorance of Fossil Fuel Lovers

John Farrell | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: Wind Power, Environment, Renewable Energy, Natural Gas, Land Use, Solar Power, Green News

Cost-effective distributed wind and solar power can be built in large numbers (but small sizes) without using undeveloped land.

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Beefing Up The Case Against Meat: Environment Group The Latest To Advise Eating Less Meat And Cheese

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 09.17.2011

Read More: Healthy Eating, Land Use, Cows, Dairy, Beef, Environmental Impact of Meat, Eating Cheese, Environment, Eating Meat, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Diet, Methane, Carbon Footprint, Video, Green News

Gidon Eschel, a professor of climate physics at Bard College in New York, spent much of his youth in Israel with cows — tending to a dairy farm as a...

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Village Green: New California Report Shows Dramatic Potential of Smarter Land Use

F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sustainability, Sprawl, California, Land Use, Development, Smart Growth, Green News

A new state-sponsored report reveals that smart planning could bring dramatic environmental and economic benefits to California, while troub...

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What's at Stake in the Golden State? Corporate Cash vs. Progressive Populism

Christine Pelosi | Posted 05.25.2011

Nothing less than the biggest statehouse, the biggest Senate seat, and the future presidency of America is at stake here in the Golden State.

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Logging loophole gets spotlight at Bonn climate talks

Kevin Grandia | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wilderness Society (Australia), Climate Treaty Bonn, Green News, Climate Talks Bonn, Land Use Change, Bonn Germany Climate Change, Lulucf, Forestry, Logging Loophole, Land Use, Climate Change, Fresh Air Center Bonn, Unfccc, Sustainability, Sean Cadman, Global Warming, Green News

With media rightly focused on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster it's understandable that the climate talks under way in Bonn, Germany this week ar...

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The Future of China - An Interview with Peter Hessler

Elizabeth Lynch | Posted 05.25.2011

I sat down with Hessler to discuss his new book and his thoughts on China -- its problems, its future, its people. How have things changed? How have the people responded? What is the impact of rule of law in China?

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House Trio Moves To Block EPA Greenhouse Gas Regulation

Mother Jones | Kate Sheppard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Epa, House, Clean Air Act, Environmental Protection Agency, Land Use, Jo Ann Emerson, House EPA, Ike Skelton, Epa Greenhouse Gas, House of Representatives, Greenhouse Gases, Climate Change, Renewable Biomass, Collin Peterson, Green News

A bipartisan trio of House members announced yesterday that they are sponsoring a bill to block the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating gr...

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ReThink Interview: Phillippe Diaz (part 2) -- The End of Poverty? and Changing the System

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, The End of Poverty?, Trickle Down Economics, Land Use, Poverty, Trickle Down, Agrarian Reform, De-Growth, Sustainability, Rethink Reviews, Philippe Diaz, Rethink Interviews, Jonathan Kim, Entertainment News

Unless we change the system, it will collapse under its own unsustainability -- or the victims of that system will revolt and smash it. That's why Philippe Diaz made The End of Poverty?.

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The Grande Dame Of NYC Land Use

The New York Observer | Reid Pillifant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York, Greenwich Village, Save the Village, Land Use, New York City, Landlords, New York News

Doris Diether, a member of Save the Village since 1959, has fought dictatorial landlords and campaigned to preserve the environment and history of her...

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VOICES FROM JERUSALEM: What Is Behind Jerusalem's First Master Plan Since 1967?

Ir Amim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Jerusalem, Land Use, Ir Amim, Urban Planning, East Jerusalem, World News

Today, 42 years since the annexation of East Jerusalem, it seems that the future of Palestinian Jerusalemites is gloomier than ever, and that their pathways of existence are narrowing.

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