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Author | : Bernice Benedict Popelka |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 101 |
Release | : 2011-05-16 |
Genre | : Nature conservation |
ISBN | : 9781450776660 |
"Woodworth Prairie constitutes the last surviving five acres of what most of the Chicago area looked like before Europeans settled here. Remarkably, this virgin black soil tall-grass prairie has never been plowed. It is the home of more than 150 species of native prairie plants as well as a wide variety of insects and animals, including an extraordinary population of prairie cicadas ... Here is a story of a grassroots effort by local citizens ... to save the prairie as a permanent preserve because of its outstanding educational, historic, aesthetic and scientific values." -- Preface (p. xv).
Author | : John Scott Watson |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2016-01-30 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0252097971 |
Carved out of century-old farmland near Chicago, the Prairie Crossing development is a novel experiment in urban public policy that preserves 69 percent of the land as open space. The for-profit project has set out to do nothing less than use access to nature as a means to challenge America's failed culture of suburban sprawl. The first comprehensive look at an American conservation community, Prairie Crossing goes beyond windmills and nest boxes to examine an effort to connect adults to the land while creating a healthy and humane setting for raising a new generation attuned to nature. John Scott Watson places Prairie Crossing within the wider context of suburban planning, revealing how two first-time developers implemented a visionary new land ethic that saved green space by building on it. The remarkable achievements include a high rate of resident civic participation, the reestablishment of a thriving prairie ecosystem, the reintroduction of endangered and threatened species, and improved water and air quality. Yet, as Watson shows, considerations like economic uncertainty, lack of racial and class diversity, and politics have challenged, and continue to challenge, Prairie Crossing and its residents.
Author | : Wisconsin. State Banking Department |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 700 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Banks and banking |
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Author | : Wisconsin. Banking Department |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 618 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Banks and banking |
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Author | : Wisconsin. Banking Dept |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 542 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Banks and banking |
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Author | : Carmen Sirianni |
Publisher | : University Press of Kansas |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2020-09-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 070062998X |
We face two global threats: the climate crisis and a crisis of democracy. Located at the crux of these crises, sustainable cities build on the foundations and resources of democracy to make our increasingly urban world more resilient and just. Sustainable Cities in American Democracy focuses on this effort as it emerged and developed over the past decades in the institutional field of sustainable cities—a vital response to environmental degradation and climate change that is shaped by civic and democratic action. Carmen Sirianni shows how various kinds of civic associations and grassroots mobilizing figure in this story, especially as they began to explicitly link conservation to the future of our democracy and then develop sustainable cities as a democratic project. These organizations are national, local, or multitiered, from the League of Women Voters to the Natural Resources Defense Council to bicycle and watershed associations. Some challenge city government agencies contentiously, while others seek collaboration; many do both at some point. Sirianni uses a range of analytic approaches—from scholarly disciplines, policy design, urban governance, social movements, democratic theory, public administration, and planning—to understand how such diverse civic and professional associations have come to be both an ecology of organizations and a systemic and coherent project. The institutional field of sustainable cities has emerged with some core democratic norms and civic practices but also with many tensions and trade-offs that must be crafted and revised strategically in the face of new opportunities and persistent shortfalls. Sirianni’s account draws ambitious yet pragmatic and hopeful lessons for a “Civic Green New Deal”—a policy design for building sustainable and resilient cities on much more robust foundations in the decades ahead while also addressing democratic deficits in our polarized political culture.
Author | : Wisconsin. State Banking Department |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Banks and banking |
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Author | : R. Newell Searle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Conservation of natural resources |
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Author | : James Cozine |
Publisher | : University of North Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1574411756 |
The Big Thicket of East Texas, which at one time covered over two million acres, served as a barrier to civilizations throughout most of historic times. This text is a classic account of the region's history and a play-by-play narrative of the prolonged fight for the Big Thicket Preserve.
Author | : Carol Antoinette Peacock |
Publisher | : Albert Whitman & Company |
Total Pages | : 35 |
Release | : 2004-09-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 080756544X |
When young Pilgrim Faith Barrett discovers a stray cat on the Mayflower, she names her new friend Pounce. Together they face the long, cramped voyage and the perils of the first winter at the Plymouth colony.