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A Seattle Urban Garden Models What Community Input Should Look Like
iUrban team members and Seattle Parks and Recreation staff at an Earth Day event this year. (Photo courtesy Seattle Parks and Recreation) Sponsored content from City Parks Alliance. Sponsored content...
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When Our Environments Are the Problem, Social Prescriptions Can Be a Cure
(Photo by sq lim) This is an excerpt from The Connection Cure: The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service, and Belonging by Julia Hotz. The book explores social prescribing, which...
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AI May Be Coming to Your Neighborhood Credit Union
(Image by Philip Oroni / Unsplash+) Artificial intelligence is making its way into many aspects of urban life, and how you interact with your local credit union will likely be no exception. A new...
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A Pandemic-Era Eviction Prevention Program Inches Toward Permanence
Casey Thomas, a member of the steering committee for Guilford for All, helps rally Greensboro-area residents to advocate for TEAM. (Photo by Gale Melcher / Triad City Beat) This story was...
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The Drama of Zoning Finally Makes It to the Big Screen
At the Village East theater for the sold-out world premiere of “Emergent City,” at the Tribeca Film Festival. (Photo by Oscar Perry Abello) Zoning and land use got the red carpet treatment this week...
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The Weekly Wrap: Potential Legal Challenges Over NYC Congestion Pricing Halt
(Photo by Asael Peña / Unsplash) Welcome back to The Weekly Wrap, our Friday roundup of stories that explain the problems oppressing people in cities and elevate the solutions bringing us closer to...
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Cheap, Easy, Good: We Need to Think Like Amazon to Decarbonize Transportation
(Photo by Thomas Kinto / Unsplash) Amazon grew by 5,000% between 2005 and 2021. In the same period, we have cut just 6% of our greenhouse gas emissions from transportation. The clear and present...
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How One City Beat the U.S. to Making Juneteenth an Official Paid Holiday
The Black food truck festival is one of the biggest events that is part of Juneteenth in Greensboro. (Photo by Brandon Demery / Triad City Beat) This story was co-published with Triad City Beat as...
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Louisiana City Turned an Old Train Depot Into a Civil Rights Museum
Inside the Texas and Pacific Railway Depot during the building's restoration (Photo courtesy of the Texas and Pacific Railway Depot Rehabilitation Project) When it comes to the Civil Rights Movement,...
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Colorado Is Pioneering A Way To Let Renters Earn Cash Back for Paying Rent
(Graphic by Getty / Unsplash+) Danielle Rickards is a 30-year-old single mother and a full-time caretaker to her 5-year-old daughter, who has a rare heart condition. For many Americans in similar...
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Equity Impact Scorecard Helps CDFIs Address the Racial Wealth Gap
(Photo by August de Richelieu / Pexels) Pacific Community Ventures (PCV) recently funded a loan to a Black-owned security business that they might not have underwritten without the African American...
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The Weekly Wrap: Chicago Is Latest City To Study Reparations
Chicago Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson speaks to supporters after defeating Paul Vallas in the mayoral runoff election. (Photo by Paul Beaty / AP) Welcome back to The Weekly Wrap, our Friday roundup of...
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San Diego Ponders A Bid to Take Over Its For-Profit Energy Utility
(Photo by Getty Images via Grist) This story was originally published by Grist. Activists pushing San Diego to take over the city’s investor-owned utility aren’t letting last year’s defeat of a...
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Climate Equity Initiative Places the South Front and Center
(Photo by Galina Nelyubova / Unsplash+) The South is home to many climate-vulnerable and energy-burdened communities, made all the more so by a lack of adequate policies, programs, and capital...
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Ensuring Low-Income Communities Get Their Share of the Green Energy Pie
(Photo by Los Muertos Crew / Pexels) Low-income communities and people of color are more likely to live in areas affected by flooding, poor air quality, and extreme temperatures, according to the U.S....
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The Weekly Wrap: Young Native Hawaiians Win a Huge Climate Judgment
(Photo by Amanda Phung / Unsplash) Welcome back to The Weekly Wrap, our Friday roundup of stories that explain the problems oppressing people in cities and elevate the solutions that bring us closer...
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Inside One County’s Decades-Long Fight To Close Maternal Health Disparities
Elbia L. Altamirez is a patient coordinator for Adopt-A-Mom. (Photo by Maaroupi Sani / Triad City Beat. Graphic by Aysha Khan / Next City) This story was co-published with Triad City Beat as part of...
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Under-Resourced Neighborhoods Can Be Incubators For Future Entrepreneurs – If...
(Photo by Getty Images / Unsplash+) In 2016, I walked into a school’s career day on the west side of Chicago and met a great young man. This honor roll student played basketball and was respected by...
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Can Elections Still Help Defund Police?
(Photo by Backbone Campaign / CC BY 2.0) This story originally appeared in Yes! Magazine. The movement to shift funding away from policing and prisons and into social services and public safety...
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I’m the Mayor of St. Paul. Here’s How Our City Is Erasing $100 Million in...
(Photo by Dzulhaidy Abdul Rahim / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) We all deserve the right to access life-saving medical care without being trapped by staggering costs that leave us unable to pay for our housing,...
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