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A “Living” Built Environment
is both more comprehensive and more expansive, applying 20 "imperatives"—such as urban agriculture , limits to growth , ecological water flow, and net zero energy—to everything from small in-home remodels to community- and campus-wide initiatives, as well as infrastructure projects like bridges, roads, and parks. Living Building Challenge 2.0
The Green Changemakers - Friday, May 14, 2010
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10 Land-Use Strategies to Create Socially Just, Multiracial Cities
Transit-accessible vacant buildings can be acquired, held, and managed by nonprofit housing groups in ways that pre-empt speculation and promote community stability. Advocate metropolitan growth strategies that systematically reduce health disparities between vulnerable communities and middle- and upper-class society. Magazine. link].
The Green Changemakers - Saturday, April 17, 2010
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How to Reliably Create Rapid, Resilient Renewal When Your Community is Broke, Depressed, and/or at Each Others’ Throats
Smart growth has emerged as a way of collecting best practices that take a more integrated approach to creating and renewing community assets. But too often, the firms and professionals we pay to create smart growth solutions remain in their silos and offer only token engagement of stakeholders. This mode is called "dewealth."
The Green Changemakers - Tuesday, January 12, 2010
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  • 10 Land-Use Strategies to Create Socially Just, Multiracial Cities
    Transit-accessible vacant buildings can be acquired, held, and managed by nonprofit housing groups in ways that pre-empt speculation and promote community stability. Advocate metropolitan growth strategies that systematically reduce health disparities between vulnerable communities and middle- and upper-class society. Magazine. link].
    The Green Changemakers - Saturday, April 17, 2010
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  • Putting the Science of Happiness Into Practice
    This fall, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, only two years ago the champion of economic growth and American-style economics, made headlines by singing a very different tune: he organized a commission led by Nobel Prize economists Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen to re-examine how France measures progress. Rarely? Usually? Always?
    The Green Changemakers - Saturday, December 12, 2009
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  • Sustainable Happiness Resource Guide
    Build Community The Community Toolbox , a web resource, offers hundreds of articles containing practical guidance, toolkits, and strategies for developing a healthy community. www.gprc.org At Idealist.org , you can search 20,000 nonprofit and community organizations in 150 countries for volunteer and internship opportunities.
    The Green Changemakers - Friday, November 21, 2008
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  • How to Reliably Create Rapid, Resilient Renewal When Your Community is Broke, Depressed, and/or at Each Others’ Throats
    Smart growth has emerged as a way of collecting best practices that take a more integrated approach to creating and renewing community assets. But too often, the firms and professionals we pay to create smart growth solutions remain in their silos and offer only token engagement of stakeholders. This mode is called "dewealth."
    The Green Changemakers - Tuesday, January 12, 2010
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  • A “Living” Built Environment
    is both more comprehensive and more expansive, applying 20 "imperatives"—such as urban agriculture , limits to growth , ecological water flow, and net zero energy—to everything from small in-home remodels to community- and campus-wide initiatives, as well as infrastructure projects like bridges, roads, and parks. Living Building Challenge 2.0
    The Green Changemakers - Friday, May 14, 2010
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  • A "Living" Built Environment
    is both more comprehensive and more expansive, applying 20 "imperatives"—such as urban agriculture , limits to growth , ecological water flow, and net zero energy—to everything from small in-home remodels to community- and campus-wide initiatives, as well as infrastructure projects like bridges, roads, and parks. Living Building Challenge 2.0
    The Green Changemakers - Thursday, December 3, 2009
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  • Green Hearts and Nature Play
    "The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things." -- Plato Green Hearts is a nonprofit conservation organization dedicated to restoring and strengthening the bonds between children and nature. 25 Easy Nature Play Ideas for Preschool Yards Article about nature preschools www.greenheartsinc.org.
    The Green Changemakers - Thursday, July 23, 2009
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