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Definitions of Sustainable Development
The phrase "sustainable development" means different things to different people. Here are a collection of some of them: "positive socioeconomic change that...
A Meeting of Movements
In New York City the mayor tries to cast destruction of community gardens as a gain for housing advocates. Along the west coast, on-going...
Green Communities, Green Jobs
Community Based Development Organizations (CBDOs) often get drawn into an environmental agenda by the need to organize against an environmental hazard. In Roxbury, Massachusetts,...
Sustaining Community Power
Growing up in Cleveland, Greg Watson says he "intuitively knew" early on that environmental issues were important, and at Tufts University in the late...
Building Green
One of the earliest experiments in ecologically aware affordable housing took place in Roosevelt, New Jersey, a WPA-era suburb, in the late 70s to...
Cleaner, Greener Chattanooga
Chattanooga, Tennessee, identified as the most polluted city in America by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1969, is now hailed as the...
Location Efficient Mortgages
When families rely on public transit rather than automobiles for travel needs, they spend less on transportation. When they shop, work, recreate, socialize, learn,...
Minneapolis Goes Green
Minneapolis's inner city is home to The Green Institute, a nonprofit economic development organization focused on sustainable enterprise. Incorporated in 1993, the institute originated...
Livable Communities: A Shared Goal
On the face of it, the intersections between the sustainability movement and the community development movement are not too hard to identify. We know...
Shelter Shorts
The Welfare ShuffleAs President Clinton and other politicians hail the news of the drop in welfare rolls across the country, a less rosy scenario...
When Fundraising Strategies Wear Out
Nearly all organizations have three fundraising fantasies:
Fantasy 1: The Council on Foundations will declare their group, "The group to fund now and forever" and,...
Develop the Economy, Don’t Just Grow It
Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development.
Herman E. Daly. 253 pp. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996.
Although I've never met him, I must admit: economist Herman...
National Collaboration Drives Transportation Policy
On August 12, 1998, almost 1000 leaders from 14 states gathered in St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church in Chicago, Illinois, for a one-of-a-kind...
Washington News & Views
Community Reinvestment Act Under Attack Again
The financial services modernization bill that almost passed last year is back, and would permit broad affiliations between banks,...