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Community Planning and Visioning
Suburb design cuts crime 90%, energy 70%, and water 33%...
Happiness & Emotional Health Designed into City Planning
Local Investors Can Lower Taxpayer Costs While Creating Jobs
Community Progress Benchmarking
Creating local “gift cards” boosts local business, employment
Correctional System
Inmate education cuts crime, prison costs
Culinary arts program for ex-offenders places 85% of graduates; during training they feed 5000 meals a week to disadvantaged.
America's Correctional System
Making America safer, salvaging lives, and lowering taxes via inmate education
Education - inside the classroom
Reducing School Absence By Washing Hands
Some Other Good Sites
School salad bars fight obesity, help farmers
Education - outside the classroom
Missouri school district brings fresh, local produce to lunch with no cost increase.
Nemours BrightStart
Fruits and Veggies in vending machines tackle childhood obesity
Energy Conservation
Energy debates confuse "Price" with "Cost"
"Kissing Lane" education reduces gas use
School District makes their own "Bio" gas, creates new jobs, cuts fuel, cuts pollution
Blue Ribbon companies are shown how to save $89 Million by students!
Roundabouts cut gas, pollution 20-30%
Conservation Loans From Utilities
Magic machine lowers energy costs, store prices, rents, and pollution
Thinking electric thoughts
Environment
The Optimistic Futurist frets about invisible threats
Roundabouts cut gas, pollution 30%
Mowing down air pollution
Gas Cap Replacement Project
New pollution cleanup technique cuts cost 75%
CA legislation recycling e-waste
Recycling Computers
Eco-Machine Water Treatment Process
Waterless Urinal
Kids speak out:
School District makes "Bio" gas for school busses, cuts fuel, cuts pollution
Food Production
Seeds of Change
Maine farm yields $80,000 per acre, produces food 12 months a year
Missouri school district brings fresh, local produce to lunch with no cost increase.
Internet links farmers with restaurants, creates jobs
Jobs! and year round veggies with solar heat...
Edible Landscaping
Hunger amidst plenty: Salvaging Food
Healthcare
I can't see the future for the smoke
Public smoking bans lower heart attacks 36%
Problem-C-Section Births
Cutting re-hospitalizations 20 Percent!
Using simple technology to help sick kids, lower taxpayer costs
Job Creation
School District makes their own "Bio" gas, creates new jobs, cuts fuel, cuts pollution
Small loans to the poor yield 99% payback...
Jobs! and year round veggies with solar heat...
Internet links small farmers , restaurants
Micro Lending for Macro Jobs
Local Economy Development
Is the Sustainability Movement political hype?
How Do We Measure Progress In America?
Cherokee Investment Partners Gain Financial Returns of Over 20 Percent
Local Investors Can Lower Taxpayer Costs While Creating Jobs
New form of housing for single parent students
Obesity
Missouri school district brings fresh, local produce to lunch with no cost increase.
School System cuts childhood obesity 15% !
71% ordered lower calorie items
Renewable Energy Supply
Creative financing and school adds solar...
Innovation stimulates increase in solar electric installations!
Residential Solar Loan Program
Sexuality
High risk teens program to avoid pregnancy shows amazing results!
Course in sexuality brings praise
Substance Abuse
Public smoking bans lower heart attacks 36%
Program dries up supply of diverted legal prescriptions
Transportation
School system makes their own "Bio" fuel for their bus fleet
Zipcars save money, cut fuel, cut polution...
Kids speak out:
Roundabouts cut gas, pollution 20-30%
Stop passing gas about importing oil
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Latest Solutions
Serving Local Fruits and Veggies in Schools Improves Student Behavior
Cherokee Investment Partners Successfully Redevelop Brownfield Sites with Financial Returns of Over 20 Percent
Kids speak out: air pollution, gasoline, down by 70%...
School System makes Bio gas for their bus fleet...
Zipcar rentals save money, cuts fuel, cuts pollution...
Small loans to the poor yield 99% payback rate...
Jobs! and year round veggies with solar heat...
Creative financing and school adds solar
Suburb design cuts crime 90%, energy 70%, and water 33%...
Happiness and Emotional Health Designed into City Planning...
Public and workplace smoking bans lower heart attack 36%
Internet system links small farmers, restaurants -creates jobs.
Innovative agreement stimulates major increase in solar electric sites!
Blue Ribbon companies are shown how to save $89 Million by students!
Culinary arts program for ex-offenders places 85% of graduates!
Recycling pharmaceuticals avoids problems
Sex Education program reduces teen pregnancy rate 75%, raises high school graduation rates!
Iron can now be used to clean polluted soil and water
“Eco-Machines” - A better way to treat waste water
CA legislation innovative e-waste solution
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