I can’t recall when in recent memory there has been such a concerted effort to build up the local economy. The teetering global economy no doubt has a lot to do with this trend. While being interconnected on a global scale has done amazing things to raise awareness about the needs of our human community,
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Job creation is one of those buzz terms that we all hear and understand only too well during this period of economic restraint. The reasons no longer need much explanation. North America has become too expensive a place to manufacture those products that traditionally provided our communities with jobs that helped our nation’s economy to
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Urban Farming is a hot topic today but the really good news is that it’s more than a temporary fad for transient professionals living in the city. It’s part of a movement that is including core urban residents and families. Cleveland, one of the most challenged rust belt cities, has an estimated 325 urban market
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When I think about the “eat local” movement I often connect this to the notion of eating food grown locally, which is the intended meaning of the term. But this weekend I thought about another meaning of the term that is equally valid given the goal of supporting our local economies and that is buying
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I’ve just returned from the annual gathering of architects, town planners, and advocates for new urbanist ideals called The Congress for the New Urbanism or CNU19, held June 1-4 in Madison, Wisconsin. In all the years that I’ve followed this movement I’ve never been to this event, though I’ve read much about it. I have
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