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		<title>Urban Resilience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These days, I spend a lot of time thinking about cities and synergies. I believe that the very basic components of urban sustainability&#8211;and education about it&#8211;must be grounded in showing linkages between concurrent, parallel,and  symbiotic processes.  We can not talk about anything ecological without discussing the economic or equity component to it. Clearly I&#8217;m not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cunysustainablecities.org/2010/03/urban-resilience/</link>
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		<title>The Shrinking of Detroit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The folks here at the institute are keenly interested in the practice of urban farming.  In the last year we have posted more than a few pieces on the subject which gave a big nod to Detroit as a leader in the movement to cultivate derelict urban space.  Many people have attributed this success, in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cunysustainablecities.org/2010/03/the-shrinking-of-detroit/</link>
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		<title>Climate Change Education Takes a Hit in the Classroom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People talk about the tendency of contemporary America to be anti-intellectual. But what is perhaps more frightening is an anti-science tendency. Never mind that only 36% of Americans believe in climate change right about now. There is another whole subset of the population that believes in it even less&#8211;23% of white evangelical Protestants believe that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cunysustainablecities.org/2010/03/climate-change-education-takes-a-hit-in-the-classroom/</link>
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		<title>Sparking Change in the NYC Food System</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a few weeks ago the Borough President of Manhattan, Scott Stringer, released a remarkable policy report designed to &#8220;spark systemic change in New York’s regional food system.&#8221;  The document, titled FoodNYC: A Blueprint for a Sustainable Food System, contains a respectably comprehensive range of proposals which identify keys points of intervention for our city.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cunysustainablecities.org/2010/03/sparking-change-in-the-nyc-food-system/</link>
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		<title>Growing Gardens at City Hall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We made it through February. Hooray! And while March can still be a month to savor and simultaneously curse the last days of winter, it is certainly time to start thinking about gardens.  
And we have some very ambitious friends who are imagining putting a small patch of concrete near NYC City Hall to good [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cunysustainablecities.org/2010/03/growing-gardens-at-city-hall/</link>
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		<title>Paterson Plans to Close Parks.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a bad budget year, some things will always suffer.  And environmental services are often in the mix. A few weeks ago, there was talk of cutting funding to all state zoos and botanic gardens. And today, Governor David Paterson and state Parks Commissioner Carol Ash have released a list of 41 park and 14 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cunysustainablecities.org/2010/03/paterson-plans-to-close-parks/</link>
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		<title>Decarbonize Our Cities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new plan was recently unvieled for the &#8220;decarbonization&#8221; of Chicago.  The brain-child of architecture firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill (AS+GG), the study hinges upon eight key strategies for meeting the city&#8217;s carbon reduction goals of 25% by 2020.  These numbers were set out by the renown Chicago Climate Action Plan and included the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cunysustainablecities.org/2010/02/decarbonize-our-cities/</link>
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		<title>Taxi Sharing Begins in NYC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During the MTA strike of 2005, people picked up random passengers and New Yorkers shared cabs with each other because it made sense. As soon as necessity for such activities dwindled and the MTA started (haggardly) running again, people stopped. It was kind of like when folks jammed into commuter trains and mass transit when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cunysustainablecities.org/2010/02/taxi-sharing-begins-in-nyc/</link>
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		<title>Your Brain Needs the Nature</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So don&#8217;t deny it of that, please.
More and more research is leading scientists to believe (and engage in further research) that we humans function much better when there is some piece of nature around us. Even if it is just a small patch of grass or a glimpse of a tree, we seem to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cunysustainablecities.org/2010/02/your-brain-needs-the-nature/</link>
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		<title>Video: Urban Food Prints and the Feasibility of Urban Agriculture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I came across a set of animations this weekend that I thought our readers would be interested in checking out.  The first is called &#8220;Foodprint Manhattan&#8221; and was presented by The Why Factory during last year&#8217;s Hudson Quadricentennial events on Governor&#8217;s Island.  (I wasn&#8217;t able to find a video with audio but the text is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cunysustainablecities.org/2010/02/video-urban-food-prints-and-the-feasibility-of-urban-agriculture/</link>
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