September 2010
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Neighborhood Green Swap Stencil System to Promote...
by Lindsay Kinkade
The Neighborhood Green Swap barter system uses recycled furniture to help neighbors meet one another, share plants, and share their bountiful harvests.
Green Swap furniture can be made by any community group to exchange plants for the yard or garden and to exchange bountiful harvests. This system can be part of a neighborhood response to lack of healthy food sources....
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Adaptive Reuse of Transportation Systems to Combat...
Adaptive Reuse of Transportation Systems to Combat Food Deserts – The Loop
the grocery loop proposal for a better world by design 2010 challenge
A collaborative project by RISD Graduate Students
Erika Tarte etarte@g.risd.edu
Beth Weaver bethweaverdesign@gmail.com
Lindsay Kinkade lkinkade@g.risd.edu
The Grocery Loop is an innovative design solution to the pressing social problem of...
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Grow Your Own Vegetables, City Dwellers, But Do Mind The Lead: http://www.npr.org/130212437
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Landshare →
Landshare is a UK-based online platform that brings together people who have a passion for home-grown food, connecting those who have land to share with those who need land for cultivating food. Since its launch through River Cottage in 2009 it has grown into a thriving community of more than 55,000 growers, sharers and helpers.
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“Earth Day is a good opportunity to remember the tremendous discrepancies in who...”
– In Poor Neighborhoods, “Fresh” Produce Isn’t Always What it Seems | Poverty in America | Change.org
Yet another obstacle to getting fresh food into underserved neighborhoods.
-Julia Childhood
(via shutupfoodies)
(via smarterplanet)
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“IBM said on Thursday it will open three analytics centers in Europe, part of its...”
– IBM to Open Three Analytics Centers in Europe - PCWorld Business Center
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Ask the White House Your Questions about the... →
nextamcity:
Do you want to learn more about what the federal government is doing to support distressed neighborhoods? Through noon on Tuesday, you have a chance to submit direct questions to federal officials…
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Hyperlocavore.com - A Yardsharing Community
Because Everyone Loves a Homegrown Tomato!
http://hyperlocavore.com/
We share yards, time, tools, seeds, potlucks, fruit, vegetables, stories, music, wisdom…but mostly we share our garden space!
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secondaryartifacts asked: Do the project or story suggestions submitted here need be about urban setting strictly, or can they also focus on suburban sprawl related challenges as well?
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In Chicago, A Plan To Quench 'Food Deserts' : NPR →
lettersfromhere:
“Walgreens is piloting several food centers in Chicago after Mayor Daley approached the chain about helping end “food deserts” — areas bereft of grocery stores and food options. Walgreens is now selling fresh produce and light perishable groceries in low-income and/or black communities in Chicago.”
Walgreen release here.
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Got a Tumblr Site? Tag Your Post "cityscan"
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Help others discover this project by reblogging, liking or tweeting posts that you want others to know about. The short URL for the Scan is: http://bit.ly/smartercities.
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The Better World by Design Challenge: Urban Food...
A Better World by Design, the internationally acclaimed student-run conference on reshaping the built environment, wants to your ideas for eliminating urban food deserts.
What is a food desert? Quite simply, it is a geographic area with limited access to fresh, nutritious, or locally-sourced food. Obstacles to the elimination of food deserts include availability, price, proximity of sources,...
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“The key turning point for when any transportation system becomes ‘smart’ is when...”
– Quote by Brian Cotton, Ph.D., Vice President of Frost & Sullivan’s Information & Communication technologies consulting practice found at In Smarter Transportation Ecosystem, Physical and Digital Networks Are Interconnected via Frost & Sullivan Press Release (via horizonwatching)
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Digital Urbanisms: How Segregated is Your City?... →
digitalurbanisms:
from - Infographic of the Day: How Segregated is Your City? | Fast Company
Recently, cartographer Bill Rankin produced an astounding map of Chicago, which managed to show the city’s areas of racial integration.
Eric Fischer saw those maps, and took it upon himself to create similar ones for…
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Watchsmarterplanet:
Smarter Leaders vPanel: Social Computing & Urban Traffic on IBM Global Business Services: The Video Studio
Catch the on demand replay of our latest webcam-based dialogue. The focus of this vPanel: the challenge of urban traffic and how human behavior and social media can help remedy it.
Panelists:
Shaun Abrahamson, Founder and CEO, Mutopo
Naveen Lamba, Industry...
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How Houston Became A Global City →
nextamcity:
On your next trip abroad be sure to check your ticket for a stop in Houston. It may come as a surprise, but this five-million-plus metro, best known as the energy capital of the world, is the…
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How Income Inequality Helps Explain Contemporary... →
nextamcity:
Timothy Noah, at Slate, has been writing an excellent, in-depth series of articles on the ever-rising income inequality here in the United States. Among his more disturbing finds are that income…
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Five Sustainable Towns the World's Cities Could...
thisbigcity:
In a world undergoing rapid urbanisation and witnessing the rise of the megacity, it’s easy to forget about the villages and towns that began this transformation. There are many advantages to urban living, including a reduced average carbon footprint, the freeing up of countryside for nature and agriculture, and the creative benefits of people working within a short distance of each...
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Share Your Ideas Here or by Email, Mobile Phone
Contribute to the Smarter Cities Scan now or anytime with email, from your computer or by phone. Just send to: smartercities@tumblr.com and include:
title or topic in the Subject field
content in body of the email.
Important: include the tag “cityscan” at the bottom of your post
You can even submit different kinds of posts such as pictures, text, links, quotes and video.
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THE CITY IS THE NEW FRONTIER: Premise/Promise of... →
cityfrontier:
We accept that the world is composed of multiple realities, that the process of observation is the substance of creation. In this calculus, we are more than participants, we are activators and generators - the instigators and provocateurs of emerging planes of experience. The ideas we express, the…
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Lansing Renegade Theatre Festival
Founded in 2005, the Renegade Theatre Festival exists to present a free theatre festival that creates opportunities for artists of all experience levels to offer a wide spectrum of theatre with varying techniques, production values, and styles, all completely free to the public.
Just having closed its fifth year, performances include comedy, drama, musicals, children’s theatre, performance art,...
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Watch26 Reasons to #LoveLansing
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We have a plan for our future.
In 2009, hundreds of people in the Greater Lansing Region had begun talking together - about what’s next. We live and work in the middle of Michigan, which is itself in the middle of cathartic change as we move from the industrial models of the Old Economy to the global imperatives of the New Economy. Yet amid financial difficulty and doomsayers, there is great hope. In our midst,...
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A Cultured Community
There are 221 accredited zoos and aquariums in the United States. That may sound like a lot, but as of the year 2000, the US Census counted over 10,000 cities. A quick memory lane math trip tells you that only 2% of US cities contain a zoo or aquarium. Lansing is fortunate enough to be one of those cities and the community has really taken ownership of their Zoo. Through events, donations and...
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Smarter Cities use data to guide growth
Data is not exactly the sexiest thing in the world, but in #lovelansing, our local workforce development agency Capital Area Michigan Works! partners with our regional economic development organization Leap, Inc. to help economic developers, K-12 education, higher ed and business make smarter decisions about our future.
Based on labor market information from the Michigan Bureau of Labor Market...
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Why do I #lovelansing ? Let me count the ways
1. First and foremost, because I am part of a dynamic community with everyone pulling in the same direction. Lansing moves with the energy of hundreds of people and dozens of initiatives (Young Smart and Global, Accelerate Lansing, Dewitt Creativity Group, Michigan State University, Lansing Economic Area Partnership, Impression 5 Science Center, Greater Lansing Next, ITEC—I could go on) all...
