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Letter About Palin Goes Viral
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:05:00 -0400
This week in Wasilla, Alaska, a woman named Anne Kilkenny sent a letter to some college friends about her former mayor, Sarah Palin. By week's end, the letter was pinging around the country and Kilkenny's phone was ringing off the hook.
Teen Sex, Sex Education And Sarah Palin
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:39:00 -0400
Gov. Sarah Palin has been a strong supporter of programs that advocate abstinence until marriage, and she also opposes explicit sex education. Alaska's law is silent on these issues, however, and it provides no specific funding for sex education in the schools.
Examining Palin's Pentecostal Background
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:14:00 -0400
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has electrified religious conservatives who see her as one of their own. The Republican vice presidential candidate brings evangelical credentials to the ticket and has a Pentecostal background.

The Talk of the Town

Dorothy Wickenden: An old-style, Los Angeles feminist on Obama.
Dorothy Wickenden Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
Rosalind Wyman--seventy-seven years old; doughty feminist; political fund-raiser and philanthropist; hostess to J.F.K., Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton, and Hollywood types too numerous to count; youngest elected member of the Los Angeles City Council (at the age of twenty-two); first woman to run a national political . . .
Lauren Collins: The Brooklyn painter Kehinde Wiley.
Lauren Collins Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
The painter Kehinde Wiley first travelled to Nigeria in 1997. He was trying to find his father, whom he had never met, or, more crucially for a portraitist, seen. (His mother didn’t have any photographs.) After several weeks in Lagos, he found his dad, who welcomed him. But--like any . . .
James Surowiecki: What drives market volatility?
James Surowiecki Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
American investors are frazzled. True, oil prices have fallen from their most vertiginous highs, the dollar is a bit stronger, and the stock market has actually risen over the past month. But none of those things have happened in a smooth and steady fashion. The stock market’s “ascent,” in particular . . .

 

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Building Better Communities - Consortium of building and highway construction interests presents arguments against limiting suburban development.

Campaign for Sensible Growth - Coalition of government, civic, and business leaders in northeastern Illinois. Presents information on the campaign, news, and resources.

Campaign to Protect Rural England - National charity devoted to protecting and enhancing rural England. Encourages the sustainable use of land and other natural resources in town and country.
Meta Description: [ The charity dedicated to the protection of rural England - protecting local countryside where there is threat, enhancing it where there is opportunity. ]

Colorado Sprawl Action Center - Offers resources and services for local citizen groups fighting sprawl, including a growth management toolkit and the Smart Growth Hall of Fame.
Meta Description: [ The Colorado Sprawl Action Center offers pro bono consulting and networking services for local citizen groups fighting sprawl and working for better planning in their communities. ]

Congress for the New Urbanism - News, information and other resources from an organization which promotes the restoration of cities and the creation of human-oriented livable communities with a sense of place.

500 E Design - Archive of resources about design and activities that encourage livable, sustainable communities. From the Florida Design Initiative.

Environmental Protection Agency: Smart Growth - Includes introduction and detailed information on smart growth, plus news, publications, and policies.
Meta Description: [ EPA's smart growth program offers publications, research, tools, grants, and other resources to help communities improve their development practices. ]

Envision Utah - Public-private partnership promoting quality growth with goals in air quality, transportation options, open space preservation, housing, infrastructure, and community-friendly taxation.

Fallsburg Smart Growth - New York citizens group offering smart growth news, links, documents, articles, and calendar.

Families For Responsible Development - Citizen group in Pocatello, Idaho offers details about their mission, events, vision, supporters, and membership.
Meta Description: [ Families For Responsible Development (FFRD), a citizen group in Pocatello, Idaho, which advocates responsible development of the City of Pocatello. ]

Farmland Information Center - A clearinghouse for information about farmland protection and stewardship. It is a partnership between the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service and American Farmland Trust.

Friends of Midcoast Maine - Group of 14 land trusts and advocacy groups discussing the increasing impacts of sprawl in the Midcoast Route One Corridor. News and information about issues and activities.

Greater Ohio - A statewide network promoting policies that encourage redevelopment of Ohio's cities and towns and conservation of farmland and open space.
Meta Description: [ Greater Ohio is the citizens' network promoting — through research, public education and grassroots advocacy — public policy to grow our economy and improve our quality of life through intelligent land use. ]

Greenbelt Alliance - Conservation organization dedicated to preserving a greenbelt of open space, farmlands, and parks around San Francisco, California.
Meta Description: [ California's San Francisco Bay Area land conservation and urban planning organization, dedicated to protecting the region's greenbelt of open space and making cities better places to live. ]

Grow Smart Rhode Island - A statewide non-profit organization that promotes sensible alternatives to suburban sprawl and urban decay.
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Growth Management - The International Council of Shopping Centers presents local solutions that balance community needs of controlling growth with the need for creating and maintaining economically vibrant communities.
Meta Description: [ Growth Management ]

Growth Management Institute - Nonprofit encouraging effective and equitable management of urban growth and change.

Growth Management Leadership Alliance - A network of American and Canadian leaders from state, provincial and regional organizations involved in smart growth initiatives.

Knox Citizens for Smart Growth - Volunteer organization supporting smart growth initiatives and opposing suburban sprawl in Knox County, Ohio.

Moving Sustainable Development from Theory to Practice in the U.S. - A quick-study outline of sustainable development for planners and policy-makers, with extensive web references for more in-depth information on each topic. Written by Beryl Magilavy, past director of San Francisco's Department of the Environment.
Meta Description: [ A quick-study outline of sustainable development for planners and policy-makers, with extensive web references for more in-depth information on each topic. Written by Beryl Magilavy, past director of San Francisco's Department of the Environment. ]

National Town Builders Association - Serves builders and developers in an effort to build traditional neighborhoods and town centers though smart growth principles.

Preservation Institute - Information and resources about alternatives to dehumanizing modern trends on social and environmental quality.

500 Save a Farm - Farmland preservation campaign centered in Northeast Ohio. Site includes background and links.
Meta Description: [ The Save a Farm series reflects concern over the loss of independent farms and the decreasing number of men and women who can make farms work, and how to support local farmers. ]

Save Our Land, Save Our Towns Inc. - Charitable corporation promotes changes in attitudes and policies that promote suburban sprawl.

Scenic America - Information and resources from an advocacy organization that wants to protect the scenic qualities of communities and roadways.

Sierra Club: Stopping Sprawl - The Challenge to the Sprawl Campaign works to fight poorly planned runaway development and promotes smart growth communities.

Smart Growth America - Nationwide coalition promoting a better way to grow; one that protects farmland and open space, revitalizes neighborhoods, keeps housing affordable, preserves scenic and historic resources, and makes communities more livable.

Smart Growth BC - A non-profit society that works to limit sprawl in British Columbia. Includes case studies, examples and local news.
Meta Description: [ Smart Growth BC is a provincial non-governmental organization devoted to fiscally, socially and environmentally responsible land use and development. Working with community groups, businesses, municipalities and the public, we advocate for the creation of more livable communities in British Colum... ]

Smart Growth for Tennessee Towns and Counties - Summarizes the basic steps in a smart growth visioning and planning process, and reviews techniques that can be used at each step.

Smart Growth Network - The Smart Growth Network helps create national, regional and local coalitions to support intelligent and sustainable growth.
Meta Description: [ Smart growth--anti-sprawl development that is environmentally, fiscally, and economically smart and includes land-use planning, mixed use development, and transportation efficiency --in the U.S. is supported by the Smart Growth Network's 23 national partner organizations. ]

404 SmartGrowthInfo.com - Definitions, links, and information about plans for Bloomington, Indiana.
Meta Description: [ Smart growth and traditional neighborhood development information and resources. ]

SolutionsNotSprawl.org - Home of the Citizens Alliance for Responsible Transportation, an anti-sprawl advocacy group in the Washington, D.C. area.
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404 Sprawl Brawl - Skeptical commentaries and analysis about sprawl and growth planning from Reason, a libertarian journal.

Sprawl City - Covers comsumption growth and population growth and their roles in urban sprawl.

Sprawl Guide - Planners Web presents information and links dealing with urban sprawl and its consequences, including the loss of green space and the decay of older urban centers.
Meta Description: [ The Sprawl Resource Guide is designed to familiarize you with several of the key issues associated with sprawl, and direct you to some of the wealth of information already available on the Web. ]

Sprawl Information Center - Features articles, links, a specialized search engine, and a message board.
Meta Description: [ sprawl information center urban suburban ]

Sprawl Kills - Joel S. Hirschhorn's site includes commentary, news, book excerpts, consulting, and a newsletter.
Meta Description: [ Introduction to sprawl kills, urban sprawl, sprawl, smart growth, new urbanism, active living, and sprawl's impacts on health, culture, environment, traffic, and quality of life. ]

Sprawl Watch - Clearinghouse with news, information and resource links about land-use, community planning and preservation.
Meta Description: [ The Sprawl Watch Clearinghouse is a resource center which provides information on sprawl, smart growth and livable communities. ]

Sprawl-Busters - One of the most comprehensive and earliest sites to target sprawl, by Al Norman, anti-sprawl guru and consultant. Arguments and statistics to support campaigns against sprawl developments. Reading list, news, list of towns that have defeated mega-retail proposals.
Meta Description: [ Sprawl-Busters Consultantshelp local community coalitions on-site to design andimplement successful campaigns against megastoresand other undesirable large-scale developments. ]

Sustainable Minnesota's Sprawl Resources - Links to information and resources related to sprawl issues, both in Minnesota and nationally.

The Funders' Network - A resource for foundations, nonprofit organizations, and other partners working to solve the problems created by suburban sprawl and urban disinvestment.

The Manchester, NH Urban Open Space Web Site - Photoessays and information about urban open space problems such as excess development, urban sprawl, urban forests, urban wildlife, work of conservation commissions, and downtown improvement via American Elm restoration.

Vermont Forum on Sprawl - Addresses the issue of sprawl and its affect on rural life.

Wikipedia: Urban Sprawl - Publicly-editable encyclopedia entry supplies examples and arguments for and against sprawl.