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News Flash: Biking and Walking are Really Good for You
If you didn't already know it, biking and walking are really good for you. Thanks to a new study released by the Alliance for Biking and Walking...
Cities
How to Grow an Edible, Vertical Garden in Five Steps
It’s hard to believe but, yes, spring is on its way. And with it all kinds of wonderful green things like arugula, celery, and cherry tomatoes....
Education
Detroit High Schools Teach How To Work at Walmart
Four Detroit public high schools have decided classroom time should be used to train 60 students to work at Walmart. A new partnership gives...
Cities
Could Urban Planning Reduce Childhood Obesity?
In the 19th and 20th century architects, urban thinkers and landscape architects like Fredrick Law Olmsted designed our cities and neighborhoods...
Education
Solving the Black Male School Achievement Puzzle
Closing the African American achievement gap is the life’s work of Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu. Founder of a company focused on helping parents and...
Environment
Growing Power
Everybody seems to be talking about urban farming these days, from Michelle Obama to my kale-growing neighbors to New Urbanist developer Andres...
The Community Board
In the beginning....
Check out our Pepsi Refresh blog.... http://pep.si/c24UgI. We'll be updating our progress and letting you know how we're impacting our statewide...
Environment
Covering 10 Million Roofs with Solar
Late last week, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders introduced an awfully ambitious bill, one that aims to put solar panels on the roofs of 10 million...
Environment
Getting on the Biofuel bus with Veterans for Clean Energy
Something's different about the latest climate action road trip barnstorming the country in a biodiesel bus, holding clean energy rallies in...
Environment
NASA Turns Focus Back Towards Earth
Astronauts-in-training are sure to be disappointed by the White House's budget plans for NASA, but the rest of us terra-bound Earthlings should be...
The Community Board
The Evolution of the Accessibility Initiative
Check out today's blog post. It gives some background information about the importance of accessibility for individuals with ASDs:...
Design
Farming the Front Lawn
Spending an extended period of time around dirt, explains artist/activist/architect Fritz Haeg, is a deviant act. “In our society we are not...
Environment
Do Airplane Contrails Heat or Cool the Planet?
We're not entirely sure, it turns out. For a long time now, climatologists have believed that the contrails–those white vapor trails left by...
Education
How to Get People to Vote Online
Do Something U's latest video offers advice for getting people to vote in crowdsourced contests.
Environment
The Warming of Walden Pond
When Henry David Thoreau was meticulously cataloging the variety of species he observed during his famous Walden Pond retreat, he never would have...
Culture
A Neighborhood Canvas
When Assata Richards moved into one of the newly renovated row houses in Houston's Third Ward in the winter of 1996, she knew her life had...
Cities
The Audacity of Public Space
When New York's new transportation czar decided to replace car lanes with lawn furniture she was crazy or brilliant, depending on who you asked....
Education
Senior Ditch Year in Utah?
A high school tradition, "Senior Ditch Day", may soon turn into "Senior Ditch Year" if a proposal from Utah State Senator Chris Buttars gains...
