A Long Hard Look At The Future

Normally I'm a fairly positive person when it comes to the USA and its attributes but I also try to be as brutally honest, at least to myself , as I can.

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Consumerism and Community in America

Today I read Rod Dreher's comments on Freddie de Boer's piece about conservatism and the American Dream.

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Where you can live green, from a Mom's perspective. Diverse, green, mixed use communities submitted applications to New Urban Mom and the best were compiled to inspire your next home purchase or changes in your own community.

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CNN reports that commuter suburbs in California are beginning to resemble some of the nastier banlieu of Paris.

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Abandoning grueling freeway commutes and the ennui of San Fernando Valley suburbs, Mike Boseman recently found residential refuge in this Southern California city.

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Amid turmoil in the housing market, there are opportunities, as well as challenges, for greens and those who want to protect open space. Will we see more green building to increase value and energy efficiency? Or will an economic downturn mean people abandon going green?

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John King, Urban Design Writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, turns from the "newburbs" (neither suburbs nor cities) of Denver to those of the Bay Area in the second part of his detailed piece on the New American Dream.

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San Francisco Chronicle Urban Design Writer John King documents in detail how two Denver area "newburb" (neither urban nor suburban) developments, inspired by the New Urbanism movement, represent America's changing relationship with its pattern of real-estate development.

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As a natural correlate and complement to New Urbanism, New Ruralism seeks to codify, organize, and promote rural development which enhances the best in rural living.

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This article lays out quite clearly many of the issues that I raise rather haphazardly in discussions on energy policy in the US. Alternative fuels are going to be needed to replace oil, yes.

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Mini-towns like Atlanta Station ... are sprouting up all over America.

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