2016

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  • EPA Finally Concludes Fracking Pollutes Drinking Water, Dec 13, 2016[1]

Nov 2016

Walking Picks Up Speed, Nov 18[2]

John HancockVoice: How Mining, Oil And Gas Workers Are Retraining For The Solar Economy, Nov 10[3]

Oct 2016

Public Food Forests on the Rise, Oct 24[4]

Aug 2016

3 American cities that use 100% renewable energy — and 7 that plan to join them within 20 years, Aug 13[5]

Jul 2016

Obama makes new push on solar power, Jul 19[6]

How the humble bicycle is making a comeback in US cities, Jul 14[7]

The hot new trend in American infrastructure: Unpaved roads, Jul 12[8]

Walking Makes Strides in All Kinds of Communities, Jul 6[9]

May 2016

Meet the Citizens Who Helped Decide Their City's Budget—and Got Better Buses, Benches, and Crosswalks. Greensboro, North Carolina, is the first Southern city to give citizens direct control over a slice of public spending. May 20[10]

Apr 2016

Want to Hire a Worker-Owned Co-op? There's an App for That, Apr 20[11] Coopify wants to bring a sense of community to the app-based booking world by connecting worker-owned cooperatives and other low-income task workers directly with consumers.

Website Seeks to Make Government Data Easier to Sift Through, Apr 4[12]

A new study looks at why bike share is so much safer than regular biking, Apr 3[13]

Feb 2016

"Solar Spring Break" Connects Students with Clean Power In Underserved Communities, Feb 29[14]

A New Advocacy Group Is Lobbying for the Right to Repair Everything, Feb 2[15]

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References

  1. ↑ commondreams.org
  2. ↑ resilience.org
  3. ↑ @forbes
  4. ↑ Shareable
  5. ↑ @BI_Europe
  6. ↑ thehill.com
  7. ↑ BBC News
  8. ↑ @grist
  9. ↑ resilience.org
  10. ↑ yesmagazine.org
  11. ↑ yesmagazine.org
  12. ↑ The New York Times
  13. ↑ Vox
  14. ↑ altenergymag.com
  15. ↑ Motherboard
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Authors Phil Green
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