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Eleanor Roosevelt

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I’ve been sitting on this article from Good Magazine for awhile and just found it at the bottom of a stack of papers on my desk. Derrik Ashong articulates something that I’ve been musing on for a while now and I imagine many of you have as well: a knowing sense of change in [...]

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Jason emailed this to me today.
“It is not the Critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; [...]

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We recently put up a quote board for various things heard around the office, and so far the posts have been pretty out there.
Like this one from last week.
“Its funny what you find when looking for toilet paper on the internet” -Scott
I found a blog quote that I think deserves to make it [...]

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“Trying to curb traffic congestion by adding more capacity is like trying to curb obesity by loosening your belt.”
Taken from Dolores Hayden’s “Field Guide to Sprawl.”
Jason

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Yes, this title resembles yesterdays… intentionally so… read on.
Yesterday, I posted our support for ECOS opposition to development outside the Urban Boundary.
Today, I read this story in the Bee and found it somewhat timely and relevant. I just wish the story had dug a little deeper than simply “how people feel about the egrets” [...]

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Micah passed this quote on to me…
If every US citizen ate just one meal a week that consisted of locally and organically raised meats and produce we would reduce our oil consumption by 1.1 million barrels of oil a week! Each food item in a typical US meal has traveled an average of 1500 miles.
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I got this in my email today from Bill Burg and thought I would share it here. Its from a Speech by Donovan D. Rypkema titled Economics, Sustainability, and Historic Preservation.
“Razing historic buildings results in a triple hit on scarce resources. First, we are throwing away thousands of dollars of embodied energy. Second, we are [...]

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Just something I read and liked recently…
The only meaningful counterbalance to corporate globalization is communities. The momentum of globalized trade cannot be stopped, bit it can be redirected. Communities are small enough to be able to understand their own self-interest, yet large enough to be able to access resources and generate efficiencies of scale. When [...]

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I’ve been working on a part 2 from my entry about Profit last week and am finding that its taking longer than expected. So, in the absence of original thought, I’m presenting someone who has thought much longer and deeper than I have about many important issues of the day.
For all his socially-conscious thinking, [...]

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