Third Way | Fresh Thinking 01/01/2013 (a.m.)

• Third Way | Fresh Thinking
  Too often, our national debates are defined by the rigid or outdated orthodoxies of both the left and right. This polarization leads to ideologically driven policies and political gridlock, and it drowns out the voices of millions of Americans in the forgotten middle. We believe there is a better way, a “third way”—one that discards the false choices presented by both sides. This third way philosophy is ideal for fostering the most effective and emergent approaches to major problems—ones that can attract the plurality of citizens who represent the political center and whose support is crucial to effective and credible governance.
  Tags: Economic, governance, Third Way
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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IMPLAN Analysis Site | NRCS Economics | NRCS 12/31/2012 (a.m.)

• IMPLAN Analysis Site | NRCS Economics | NRCS
  This Website contains information on the NRCS uses of the IMPLAN data and model for regional economic, program and project analysis. IMPLAN is a PC based regional economic analysis system. Unlike other economic analysis products, IMPLAN constructs a complete set of regional social accounts. The 'Region' can be any combination of US Counties. For more information see NRCS IMPLAN Basics. For additional materials, see www.implan.com. Please contact David Buland for assistance.
  Tags: economic development, regional economic development, USDA
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Economic Development Administration 12/30/2012 (p.m.)

• Economic Development Administration
  The U.S. Economic Development Administration's investment policy is designed to establish a foundation for sustainable job growth and the building of durable regional economies throughout the United States. This foundation builds upon two key economic drivers - innovation and regional collaboration. Innovation is key to global competitiveness, new and better jobs, a resilient economy, and the attainment of national economic goals. Regional collaboration is essential for economic recovery because regions are the centers of competition in the new global economy and those that work together to leverage resources and use their strengths to overcome weaknesses will fare better than those that do not. EDA encourages its partners around the country to develop initiatives that advance new ideas and creative approaches to address rapidly evolving economic conditions.
  Tags: government, economic development, federal
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Sustainable Housing Communities/U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) 12/05/2012 (a.m.)

• Sustainable Housing Communities/U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
  The mission of the Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities is to create strong, sustainable communities by connecting housing to jobs, fostering local innovation, and helping to build a clean energy economy.
  Tags: hud, sustainable communities, federal, regional planning
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Safe Routes To School - FHWA Safety Program 12/02/2012 (a.m.)

• Safe Routes To School - FHWA Safety Program
  Many of us remember a time when walking and bicycling to school was a part of everyday life. In 1969, about half of all students walked or bicycled to school.1 Today, however, the story is very different. Fewer than 15 percent of all school trips are made by walking or bicycling, one-quarter are made on a school bus, and over half of all children arrive at school in private automobiles.2
  Tags: transportation, safety, bicycle
• - By Brian G. Dowling
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The Street Plans Collaborative - Better Streets, Better Places. New York Miami and Open Streets Project | Opening Streets to People, Sharing Resources, Transforming Communities 11/25/2012 (a.m.)

• The Street Plans Collaborative - Better Streets, Better Places. New York Miami
  The Street Plans Collaborative is an urban planning, design, and research-advocacy firm. We strive to create high-quality public spaces, and believe that the key to reversing the harmfulmn effects of suburban sprawl is to promote compact, walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods. We thrive on working with our clients, partners, and other likeminded organizations to improve the quality and function of the built environment. We seek to increase the effectiveness of multi-modal transportation as a means to creating more competitive and sustainable 21st century towns and cities.
  Tags: Walkable, mixed use, streets, urban planning, urban design
• - By Brian G. Dowling

• Open Streets Project | Opening Streets to People, Sharing Resources, Transforming Communities
  The Open Streets Project is a collaboration between the Alliance for Biking & Walking and The Street Plans Collaborative. The goal of the project is to share information about open streets and increase the number, size, and frequency of initiatives occurring across North America.
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  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Sustainable Economies Law Center 11/24/2012 (a.m.)

• Sustainable Economies Law Center
  The Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC) provides essential legal tools -- education, research, advice, and advocacy -- to support a transition to localized, resilient economies. Our work focuses on practices that promote justice and sharing, including barter, local currencies, cooperatives, community enterprises, local investing, cohousing, urban agriculture, and other innovative economic stra...See More
  Tags: Legal, sustainability, economics, Facebook
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Not your usual OpenPlans toolkit | OpenPlans 11/23/2012 (p.m.)

• Not your usual OpenPlans toolkit | OpenPlans
  We build tools to get cities on the path to better technology, help citizens get the responsive government they should expect, and scale up small discussions to city-wide change. We are an impartial, informed guide to civic technology, incorporating technology, transportation and city planning, an open-source approach, and the standards knowledge necessary to deliver valuable tools to our clients.
  Tags: toolkit, community building, community design, community planning
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Los Angeles Economic Roundtable - 11/20/2012 (p.m.)

• Los Angeles Economic Roundtable -
  The Economic Roundtable is a non-profit, public benefit corporation organized to conduct economic, social and environmental research that contributes to the sustainability of individuals and communities. The Economic Roundtable seeks to respect the needs and goals of all neighborhoods and communities of interest affected by its work. Research findings are made readily available to public policy makers, affected communities, and the general public.
  Tags: Sustainability, research, Economic, social, environment
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Collective Action Toolkit | frog 11/16/2012 (a.m.)

• Collective Action Toolkit | frog
  The Collective Action Toolkit (CAT) is a package of resources and activities that enable groups of people anywhere to organize, build trust, and collaboratively create solutions for problems impacting their community. The toolkit provides a dynamic framework that integrates knowledge and action to solve challenges. Designed to harness the benefits of group action and the power of open sharing, the activities draw on each participant’s strengths and perspectives as the group works to accomplish a common goal.
  Tags: design, change agent, collaboration, toolkit
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Presencing Institute 11/15/2012 (p.m.)

• Presencing Institute
  The Presencing Institute (PI) is an awareness-based action research community for profound societal innovation and change. The presencing process is a journey that connects us more deeply both to what wants to emerge in the world and to our emerging, higher self.
  Tags: deliberative decision making, dialogue
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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The American Dream Composite Index and Rethinking the Automobile 11/09/2012 (p.m.)

• Rethinking the Automobile
  “Rethinking the Automobile” is a project created by livable streets advocate Mark Gorton. Its goal is to raise awareness around the negative impact of the automobile on our world.Through public events and media campaigns, Rethinking the Automobile reveals how policies that prioritize the automobile destroy public space in our cities and towns and have created a dangerous and unsustainable world.
  Tags: automobile, suburban, urban, transportation, environment, walkable, health, mobility
• - By Brian G. Dowling

• The American Dream Composite Index
  Xavier University’s American Dream Composite Index™ (ADCI) measures the extent to which people living in the United States achieve the American Dream. The ADCI is based on a random sample of no fewer than 1,000 adults who are surveyed online each month, with at least 400 respondents recurring from the previous month.
  Tags: economic development, composite index
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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The Institute of Cultural Affairs International - Advancing Human Development 10/29/2012 (p.m.)

• The Institute of Cultural Affairs International - Advancing Human Development
  Technology of Participation is an integrated set of facilitation methods, tools and approaches that foster authentic participation and meaningful collaboration. From rural villages to global corporations, people want to participate in making choices that affect their lives. We want our efforts to make a difference in the world. Changing expectations are morphing the hierarchical triangle into a circle. Leaders of the future will foster authentic participation.
  Tags: Community, participation, collaboration, facilitation
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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BREAKTHROUGH CAPITALISM 10/23/2012 (p.m.)

• BREAKTHROUGH CAPITALISM
  Breakthrough Capitalism Our financial, environmental and social systems are heading towards breakdown. But some visionary organisations in the corporate and investment communities are stepping beyond traditional corporate social responsibility (CSR) and socially responsible investment (SRI) and driving systemic change with breakthrough ventures. This is the focus of Phase II of the Breakthrough Capitalism program: see Progress Report. To contribute to the upcoming report Betting on Breakthrough: Top Team Agendas for Transformative Change, or to get involved with a Breakthrough Labs, please contact breakthrough@volans.com
  Tags: economic policy, Capitalism, innovation, creative-destruction
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Positive Deviance Initiative 10/22/2012 (a.m.)

• Positive Deviance Initiative
  Positive Deviance is based on the observation that in every community there are certain individuals or groups whose uncommon behaviors and strategies enable them to find better solutions to problems than their peers, while having access to the same resources and facing similar or worse challenges. The Positive Deviance approach is an asset-based, problem-solving, and community-driven approach that enables the community to discover these successful behaviors and strategies and develop a plan of action to promote their adoption by all concerned.
  Tags: development, Positive Deviance, community building
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Federal-aid Essentials for Local Public Agencies 10/13/2012 (p.m.)

• Federal-aid Essentials for Local Public Agencies
  Federal-aid Simplified. Understanding the Essentials. More and more, transportation agencies must pursue better, faster and smarter ways of doing business. Federal-aid Essentials offers a central online library of informational videos and resources, designed specifically for local public agencies. Each video addresses a single topic-condensing the complex regulations and requirements of the Federal-aid Highway Program into easy-to-understand concepts and illustrated examples.
  Tags: local, public, agencies, federal, aid, public financing
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Home | the Original Green 10/12/2012 (a.m.)

• Home | the Original Green
  Many people now agree that achieving sustainability is a bigger challenge than just buying more efficient devices. Steve Mouzon coined the phrase “Original Green” several years ago to describe the sustainability that existed before the Thermostat Age. The Original Green is the most important initiative being pushed forward by Steve Mouzon and Wanda Mouzon.
  Tags: sustainability, community ecology
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Home | Civil Politics.org 10/11/2012 (p.m.)

• Home | Civil Politics.org
  Directors: This website is run by Jonathan Haidt at NYU-Stern, Matt Motyl at the University of Virginia, and Ravi Iyer at the University of Southern California. We exercise some light editorial oversight, but the content here is provided by a network of contributors who, we can assume, do not all agree with everything that the other contributors have written. We selected the initial contributors for the excellence of their research and the diversity of their perspectives. The content on each page can be assumed to reflect the views of the editor listed at the bottom of that page, unless the content is specifically signed by another contributor. In 2012 we will gradually develop a set of policy recommendations that are supported by the large majority of the contributors.
  Tags: politics, psychology, morality, civil society
  • - By Brian G. Dowling
• Civil Politics.org Facebook
  Tags: politics, psychology, morality, civil society, Facebook
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Half in Ten 09/20/2012 (p.m.)

• Half in Ten
  The problem of povertyMore than 46 million Americans live below the official poverty line—which is now approximately $22,314 for a family of four—and 16.4 million children are poor in this country. Inequality of wealth has reached record highs—it is greater than at any time since 1929. Growing portions of the nation’s wealth are concentrated in the possession of a small fraction of households, while more than one third of the U.S. population is trying to get by on incomes less than 200 percent of the federal poverty line—or about $44,000 for a family of four. Well before the current economic crisis, 6 million low-income households were paying more than half their income on rent and utilities, or lived in severely substandard housing. And the most recent data for 2010 revealed that 48.8 million people, including 16.2 million children, lived in a household struggling against hunger.
  Tags: poverty, aid, change agent, economics
• - By Brian G. Dowling

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The Public Laboratory | publiclaboratory.org 09/05/2012 (p.m.)

• The Public Laboratory | publiclaboratory.org
  The Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science (PLOTS) is a community which develops and applies open-source tools to environmental exploration and investigation. By democratizing inexpensive and accessible “Do-It-Yourself” techniques, Public Laboratory creates a collaborative network of practitioners who actively re-imagine the human relationship with the environment.The core PLOTS program is focused on “civic science” in which we research open source hardware and software tools and methods to generate knowledge and share data about community environmental health. Our goal is to increase the ability of underserved communities to identify, redress, remediate, and create awareness and accountability around environmental concerns. PLOTS achieves this by providing online and offline training, education and support, and by focusing on locally-relevant outcomes that emphasize human capacity and understanding.
  Tags: technology, media, mapping, activism, environment, journalism, science, community
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Democracy Is For People 09/05/2012 (a.m.)

• Democracy Is For People
  In 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a case called Citizens United v. FEC that corporations have a “right” to spend unlimited money influencing elections. Corporations are not people. Democracy is for people.
  Tags: democracy, advocacy, Citizens United, national
  • - By Brian G. Dowling
• Government Reform Initiatives
  Government Reform The government should serve voters, not corporate special interests. Public Citizen works to empower ordinary citizens, reduce the influence of big corporations on government, open the government to public scrutiny, and hold public officials accountable for their misdeeds.
  Tags: government, reform, democracy, advocacy, national
  • - By Brian G. Dowling
• Public Citizen Facebook Page
  AboutPublic Citizen has been standing up to corporate power and holding government accountable since 1971. Visit our website at http://www.citizen.org/MissionWe represent you in the halls of power. Your support funds multiple public interest research and advocacy efforts: safe and effective health care, auto safety, good government, safe and sustainable energy, consumer safety, and fair, equitable trade and globalization. Why focus on a single issue? We do it all!Company OverviewSince 1971, Public Citizen has been a national, nonprofit public interest organization representing consumer interests in Congress, the executive branch and the courts. Website: www.Citizen.org Blog: www.CitizenVox.org Twitter: @Public_Citizen
  Tags: democracy, advocacy, consumer protection, national
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Governors' Institute on Community Design — 08/25/2012 (p.m.)

• Governors' Institute on Community Design —
  The mission of the Governors’ Institute on Community Design is to assist governors and their cabinets and staffs as they seek to guide growth and development in their states. A central goal of the Institute is to give governors practical solutions to the issues they face and a better understanding of how community design can be used to increase the social and economic well being of their states and citizens.
  Tags: state government, community design, Governors, economic policy
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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