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Library building on a sunny day in San Diego.
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  • Libraries

How Libraries Are Becoming ‘Sustainable’

  • Deborah Fallows
  • August 6, 2024
An ambitious goal of "making choices that are good for the environment, make sense economically, and treat everyone equitably."
A wall canvas reading GIS -- Mapping Common Ground, as seen at the Esri 2022 User Conference in San Diego
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  • Environment & Sustainability

‘Mapping Common Ground’: What I learned this summer in San Diego

  • James Fallows
  • August 3, 2022
New reason to “think globally, and act locally.”
Members of San Bernardino’s “Generation Now" Matthew Greenleaf, Saniyyah Thomas, Jennica Billins, Michael Segura, Jorge Heredia, and Fabian Torres: the young people who think they can save a bankrupt, low-hope city (Deborah Fallows)
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  • Economic Development

Talking About a Second Gilded Age, With ‘On Point’ Listeners

  • James Fallows
  • February 23, 2016
Two updates today: 1) On Point. I spoke today with Tom Ashbrook of WBUR and his On Point audience, about my contention (in the current cover story) that even in this time of wage…
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  • Economic Development

The Question We Keep Running Into: What Turns a Town Around?

  • James Fallows
  • October 13, 2013
Plus, a nationwide golden age of beer.

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