The National Resource Defense Council (NRDC) reviewed cities across the nation and named 15 “Smarter Cities” in small, medium, and large city categories. They looked at: air quality green building standard of living environmental standards and participation transportation recycling green space energy production and conservation water quality Their mission is to “foster a little friendly…
(The third in a series highlighting U.S. Movements to celebrate, support, and spread the word about.) Suburban sprawl has been the dominant development pattern for the last fifty years. By 2000, more people lived in suburbs than in cities, small towns, and the countryside combined. Most of these suburbs were built after 1950 to accommodate the automobile,…
Local currency, also called community or complementary currency, is money that’s not backed by a national government and is traded only in a small geographic area. Over 2,500 local currency systems currently operate in the world, including in American communities like: Ithaca, New York (Ithaca Hours) Portland, Maine (Hour Exchange Portland) The Berkshires, Massachusetts (Berkshares)…
(The first in a series highlighting U.S. Movements to celebrate, support, and spread the word about.) Americans, along with Australians and Japanese, lead the industrialized world when it comes to the number of hours we log on the job. We work a full nine weeks more per year than most Western Europeans. And we’re guaranteed no paid sick,…