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Rhode Island Equality, Breakthrough NY and 20th Street Park on Yetta Kurland LIVE!

Yetta Kurland | Posted 04.29.2013 | Gay Voices
Read More: Testing, Public Schools, Lgbt, Nyc, Common Core, Parks, Rhode Island, Marriage Equality USA, Wwrl, New York, Education, Progressive, Talk Radio, Cathy Marino-Thomas, Matt Weiss, Breakthrough New York, Open Space, Rhea Wong, Marriage Equality, Sally Greenspan, Chelsea, Yetta Kurland, 20th Street Park, Video, Gay Voices News
Yetta Kurland

This week, we started out with an update from Cathy Marino-Thomas, President of Marriage Equality USA, about the recent win in Rhode Island and debates in Nevada and elsewhere.

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Focus On The Total Package To Survive Economy

Matthew Appelbaum | Posted 10.01.2012 | Impact
Read More: Small Business, Opportunity-Public, Opportunity-Private, Unemployment Rate, Open Space, Boulder, Boulder Colorado, Opportunity-Working, Business Retention, Job Creation, Impact News
Matthew Appelbaum

Boulder's focus on the total package is working because we're not just a job, or just a nice place to live. We're a diverse community focused on business retention, a culture of innovation that attracts entrepreneurs and pushing the envelope.

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Nature in New York City

Marielle Anzelone | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Water Lily, Nyc, Rare, Urban Policy, Urban Planning, Conservation, Wildflowers, Native Plants, Blue Heron Park, New York City, Orchids, Salt Marshes, Open Space, Planyc, Soft Rush, Nature, Parks, Biodiversity, Wetlands, Preservation, Development, Staten Island, Forests, Cities, Meadows, New York News
Marielle Anzelone

It isn't easy being green in the Big Apple. Over the past century, 75% of the city's woodlands, wetlands and meadows have been destroyed.

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2011 Is Five-Borough Year of Biodiversity

Marielle Anzelone | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Nyc, Mayor Bloomberg, Planyc, Open Space, Biodiversity, Nature, David Bragdon, 5byb, Ny Impact, Urban Ecology, International Year of Biodiversity, New York City, New York News
Marielle Anzelone

New York City has more nature than any other city in North America -- more than Los Angeles and Chicago combined.

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House of the Rising Blood Pressure

Dave Astor | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Read More: Tea Party, Overdevelopment, Open Space, Harry Truman, Free Speech, Tractor Mowers, American Flag, Variances, Portable Toilets, Bob Dylan, Suvs, Barack Obama, Suburban Sprawl, Comedy News
Dave Astor

What's more American than ravaging precious open space and getting richer while making other people miserable?

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Dog Fog

Laura Munson | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Obsession, Pets, Apartment Living, Dog Walking, Open Space, City Life, Central Park, Nature, Animals, Country Living, Dogs, New York City, Human Nature, Healthy Living News
Laura Munson

When you travel across the country city-to-city, in my case on a recent book tour, you notice trends. Menus boasting beet/goat cheese/ citrus salad f...

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Manitou's Battle For House On The Hill Near End

Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Colorado Springs, Annex, House on a Hill, House on Iron Mountain, Manitou Springs, Open Space, Iron Mountain, Slidepollajax, Tom Mcgee, Bruce Brian, Stephen Beisel, Denver News

A decades-long legal battle between a Colorado town and a landowner over a house built out of spite may be close to an end. Manitou Springs has battl...

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Send in the Hounds... Preferably With Their Checkbooks

Candy Spelling | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: Mulholland Drive, Dog Park, Dogs, Parks, Private-Public Partnerships, Open-Space, Public Parks, Los Angeles News
Candy Spelling

It's no secret that our parks in LA are in financial trouble; so, as a member of the LA Parks Foundation, I attended a meeting this week with a potential donor about giving us a donation.

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A Sickly Smell From the Colorado ORV Program

David Petersen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Colorado Politics, Hunting, Colorado Environmentalists, Colorado Open Space, Off-Road Vehicle, Fishing, Open-Space, Outdoor Recreation, Colorado General Assembly, Outdoors, ORV, Denver News
David Petersen

A significant number reckless riders of off-road vehicles continue to venture off marked trails to cause extensive damage to watersheds and fish and wildlife habitat.

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LA's Big Green Secret

Zev Yaroslavsky | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: Griffith Park, Boyle Heights, Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, Open Space, King Gillette Ranch, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles News
Zev Yaroslavsky

Something remarkable is unfolding in the mountains above our urban sprawl. Acre by acre, we have amassed more protected open space than any major metropolis in the nation.

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