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Douglas Rushkoff
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Theme: "Town and Country"
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Interview, Barbara Lorie
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Barbara Lorie has taken full advantage of the 8 decades she's been around: worked with the civil rights movement in the 50's and through the 60's, 70's and 80's as a teacher, community organizer, an
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environmental activist She has taken the lead on issues from swine waste to recycling and race. And emerged as a major political and social force in the state of North Carolina.
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About 15 years ago, she and four of her friends began to question the conventional nuclear family model - not in the sense of swinging - but as a social and economic construct.
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They bought 64 acres of land and formed an intentional community now called Blue Heron Farm. Built to last, the community is still going strong, and modeling sustainability on many levels at once.
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Douglas Rushkoff
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Tell me about Blue Heron Farm. The story of what got you there. How does intentional community work?
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Douglas Rushkoff
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$ for sewers is the bottom line
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Nobody Goes to Wall*Mart :-)
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Douglas Rushkoff
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Tractor and cars magic (and water quality engineer.)
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Scalability is posible
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Saving money and living a decent life
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Rea; World pressures and her perspective
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smalll groups and supporting each other
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Freneticism is NOT the answer.
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calixco
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Alone Again
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MIQUELA CRAYTOR exec director of SUSTAINABLE SOUTH BRONX, live in studio
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Douglas Rushkoff & Miquela Craytor
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What is it? how did it start. Main project areas. Greatest successes, biggest surprises
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Douglas Rushkoff & Miquela Craytor
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Green design & manufgacturing
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Nightmare in the South Bronx?
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Offering and implementing a solution.
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support is impressive
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How does something like the Bronx happen?
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used to be a walk to work community
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WW II saw theb Bronx left behind
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Hunt Point inequities
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Soklid Waste management plan
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Upper East side "stallers"
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Redevelopping the environment
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Green Jobs is a hopeful path
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It has to be a social enterprise
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Intangible benefits
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heating costs drop with a green roof
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Pollution contributes to GNP. How do we reverse that?
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Crisis brings opportunity
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Building a future instead of spinning your wheels
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Douglas Rushkoff & Miquela Craytor
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Create opportunities
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Its NOT about sacrifice, its about extending yourself
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Charter school VS "theb elite"
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its about creating systemic change
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Its about creating oppportunity
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Its about enlarging the pie
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Itys aboutc the transformative power
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Its about people (groups are at another level)
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Website to follow
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Acceptance of people who were left behind
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The south BNronx is the result of a process of bad decisions
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Douglas Rushkoff & Miquela Craytor
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Thing must STAYbetter for the residents
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Spreading the word (evangelism)
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Douglas Rushkoff & Miquela Craytor
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Policies versus the antagonists
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Sustainable South Bronx website: http://www.ssbx....
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Sustainable South Bronx website: http://www.ssbx.org
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Grant Application
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Bock Party in the plan
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