nytimes.com - 12/10/2008
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The 1980s and 1990s made up the era of the great dispersal. Forty-three million people moved every year, and basically they moved outward from inner-ring suburbs to far-flung exurbs on the metro fringe. For example, the population of metropolitan Pittsburgh declined by 8 percent in those ...
salon.com - 12/4/2008
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salon.com —
Dec. 4, 2008 | Has any U.S. president
come into office with higher expectations from foreign countries?...
Perhaps the greatest expectation is that Barack Obama will reverse George W. Bush's all-too-successful eight-year effort to thwart international ...
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Obama, China, global warming
nytimes.com - 12/11/2008
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nytimes.com —
As Barack Obama ponders whom to pick as
agriculture secretary, he should reframe the question. What he...
needs is actually a bold reformer in a position renamed “secretary of food.” A Department of Agriculture made sense 100 years ago when 35 percent of ...
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Op-Ed Columnist - Obama’s ‘Secretary of ...
sharonastyk.com - 12/17/2008
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sharonastyk.com —
So Tom Vilsack is going to be Secretary
of Agriculture, hmmm… Let’s see, rabid ethanol proponent…check! Enthusiastic...
supporter of GMOs and biotechnologies…check! Totally indebted to and under the thumb of ...
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Vilsack and Obama: Farmer in Chief my Ass!
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Another Suggestion for U.S. Automakers: Build Railroads
Worldchanging: Bright Green —
... . An excerpt from Massengale's blog post on the subject: But as momentum grows for the idea that infrastructure money should be spent on things like rail rather than roads ( ...
Bridge Project Attempts to Span Gap Between Business and Green
Green Inc. —
... , a nonprofit environmental advocacy group in Portland. “As we’re investing in our crumbling infrastructure, there’s a real opportunity to be creative in how we address the problem so we can meet economic, social and environmental realities.” (Times columnist David Brooks makes a similar case for new thinking in infrastructure investments in his Dec. 9 piece, This Old House.) To better assess the bridge’s potential effects on climate change, a planning committee comprised of state and local agencies and elected officials called for an ...
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