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As college costs skyrocket and our nation’s economy continues to flounder, the U.S. Congress has decided to make it more expensive and difficult for poor people to get a college education. Beginning on July 1 tens of thousands of individuals who were previously eligible for Pell Grants for student financial aid will now be denied assistance.
Shanties tend to be clustered-together, dingy, dark, low-roofed settlements that are not generally serviced by municipal authorities (as usually the marginal communities have grown in violation of a city’s plans). Well-planned parking lots are also too dark, and require much artificial lighting. Now two different experiments in two very different parts of the world are attempting to light-up these habitually dark areas.
Asheville North Carolina is rolling out the next stages of its Multi-Modal transportation initiative at this year’s Strive Not To Drive program. This week-long event will illuminate how the city is planning improvements with pedestrian, cycling, vehicle and public transportation infrastructure. It is also call to the citizens of Asheville to evaluate their transportation choices, and to explore other sustainable mobility options that are becoming available.
Ecolocalizer is a proud member of a blog cooperative called Important Media, which is a community of websites devoted to news that matters. Each week we highlight a list of featured articles from across our diverse network, including posts from Eat Drink Better, Blue Living Ideas, Crafting a Green World, Sustainablog and Ecopreneurist. Please take a moment to read some of this week’s highlighted articles, and you might learn something new.
Britain’s excellent Guardian newspaper recently created this clever and poignant advertisement to highlight open journalism by re-imagining the classic tale of the three little pigs and the sinister big bad wolf. The paper illustrates how they might investigate and report about the three little pigs’ drama, while also including an emotional online media discussion; in the commercial the paper is able to uncover some rather timely and unexpected results.
