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Communities

Village Green: The Year's Top Stories for Sustainable Communities and Smart Growth

F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 12.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Suburbs, Communities, Sustainability, Development, Neighborhoods, Global Warming, Smart Growth, Cities, Transportation, Green News
F. Kaid Benfield

All in all, we had a mixture of good, disappointing, and great news for smart growth and sustainability in 2009. Taking a long view that considers where this issue was fifteen or even ten years ago, I remain very optimistic.

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Fear of A Double Dip Recession

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 08.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Driving, Pattern Language, Cars, Integral Thinking, Obama Economy, Metrosprawl, Oil Economy, Recession, Permaculture, Christopher Alexander, Density, Oil, Communities, Double Dip Recession, Diabetes, Cities, Business News
Stephen C. Rose

The enemies remain the car, the superhighway, the notion of endless oil and the willingness to grit teeth and accept the constraints of what passes for life in metrosprawl.

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Fix the Roads to Fix the Economy

James P. Hoffa | Posted 01.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Infrastructure, Teachers, Taxes, Jobs, President Obama, Amtrak, Airports, Communities, Transit, Obama, Congress, Teamsters, Bailout, Stimulus Bill, Economy, Politics News
James P. Hoffa

President-elect Barack Obama wants to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to rebuild this country's neglected infrastructure. He's right. It's really a no-brainer.

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Poverty in America: The Problems and Solutions

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 11.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Yunus, Poverty, Check Cashing, Louisiana, Microlending, Nobel, Payday Loans, Obama, Mccain, Western Union, Rural, Teen Moms, Bush, Education, Clinton, South, Palin, Public Transportation, Communities, Shreveport, Economy, Business News
Vivian Norris de Montaigu

We need to make communities strong again. Our local money does not need to be mixed in with some guy's hedge fund abstract tranche of nothing all to make a fee for some banker in New York.

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Gender Apartheid

Amy Coen | Posted 07.03.2008 | Living

Read More: Corruption, Foreign Aid, Women's Rights, Fgm, Apartheid, Foreign Assistance, Ethiopia, Violation, Prenatal, Conflict, Prevention, Africa, Aids, Racism, Female, Development, Developing Countries, Public Health, Hiv, Gender, Ngo, Contraceptives, Female Genital Mutilation, Health, Sex, Health Programs, Hospitals, Communities, Sexual Education, Condoms, Living News
Amy Coen

Boge explained her biggest challenge decades earlier was to convince the first mother that her 'uncut' daughter would have a good life; she would be an acceptable wife, bear children and be healthy.

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