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Capital Raising & Ownership Structure. 20th Century Fox Gave Him $25,000 To Make A Movie Trailer. Here's What He Did Instead. Tiny House Village to Shelter the Homeless in Texas by Kelly McCartney. The project, which is set to break ground next year, will include places for residents to live, garden, worship, and work. posted Dec 16, 2013 This article originally appeared on Shareable.

Tiny House Village to Shelter the Homeless in Texas by Kelly McCartney

How to Design Our Neighborhoods for Happiness by Jay Walljasper. Biology is destiny, declared Sigmund Freud.

How to Design Our Neighborhoods for Happiness by Jay Walljasper

Microcredit for Americans. How to Design a City for Women - Clare Foran. In 1999, officials in Vienna, Austria, asked residents of the city's ninth district how often and why they used public transportation.

How to Design a City for Women - Clare Foran

"Most of the men filled out the questionnaire in less than five minutes," says Ursula Bauer, one of the city administrators tasked with carrying out the survey. "But the women couldn't stop writing. " The majority of men reported using either a car or public transit twice a day -- to go to work in the morning and come home at night. Women, on the other hand, used the city’s network of sidewalks, bus routes, subway lines and streetcars more frequently and for a myriad reasons. "The women had a much more varied pattern of movement," Bauer recalls.

Women used public transit more often and made more trips on foot than men. Additional lighting was added to make walking at night safer for women. The barrier-free staircase in Vienna’s ninth district. The decision to look at how men and women used public transit wasn't a shot in the dark. Demand a New Urban-Rural Relationship. Yes, there is an alternative to capitalism: Mondragon shows the way. What Ever Happened to Michelle Obama’s School Lunch Program? First Lady Michelle Obama received a lot of positive press when she unveiled her child health initiative, which included her “Let’s Move!”

What Ever Happened to Michelle Obama’s School Lunch Program?

Exercise campaign, the first-ever task force on child obesity and her championing of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. The legislation, which required meals in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) to have fewer calories, more fruits and vegetables, fewer processed items and less sodium, was passed by a Congressional majority. And today the school lunches that 31 million kids eat are more likely to include a whole-wheat vegetarian pizza than sloppy joes. But in the year since the changes took effect, the meals have been under serious scrutiny. Baltimore Food Hub: $10M campus for food-related businesses, job training planned to open fall 2014 in East Baltimore [DEVELOPMENT] An ambitious $10 million plan from a group of stakeholders looks to develop two main sites for a community food entrepreneurship campus just north of Johns Hopkins Medical Campus in East Baltimore, and to have construction completed and programming and incubation for food-related businesses in place by fall 2014.

Baltimore Food Hub: $10M campus for food-related businesses, job training planned to open fall 2014 in East Baltimore [DEVELOPMENT]

The effort, called the Baltimore Food Hub, is currently raising the funds through a combination of grants, equity, historic tax credits and new markets tax credits, said American Communities Trust Project Manager Greg Heller. The Food Hub is the sort of community redevelopment project that embraces “localism” as its keystone: encouraging economic development and growth by ensuring that there are opportunities for residents to spend their money inside the neighborhoods in which they live.

(In Buffalo, a former Rust Belt city like Baltimore, this approach has been embraced by nonprofit Buffalo First.) Eastern Pumping Station Site (1801 E. Proposed economic development model. Vacant East Baltimore Property to Become Urban Farm. Why the Fast-Food Worker Strikes Are Doomed - Derek Thompson. ... even if you're rooting for food service workers to have much higher wages It's amazing when you stand back and think about it.

Why the Fast-Food Worker Strikes Are Doomed - Derek Thompson

The fastest-growing industry in the world's most powerful economy can scarcely pay its workers enough to live. No wonder thousands of fast-food workers have gone on strike to protest their measly wages and non-existent benefits, demanding a $15-per-hour minimum wage, which would more than double some of their hourly income. These aren't teenagers, after all. A quarter of fast-food workers are raising a child. Empowering Students to Stop Sexual Violence.

Restoring Baltimore with some tough love. (CBS News) BALTIMORE -- There are 16,000 abandoned row houses in Baltimore.

Restoring Baltimore with some tough love

They often become dens for drug use or worse. But one Baltimore resident is determined to restore charm to her corner of the city. "I don't know what's down there," said Carol Ott. CBS News met Ott on the east side of town. Poverty in the suburbs: Hidden and growingCensus data: Half of U.S. poor or low incomeDetroit residents worry about their future after city declares bankruptcy. Incentive Mentoring Program. Southerners on New Ground PowerBase. Welcome to registration for SONG's upcoming Gaycation at Big Ridge State Park in Tennesse!

Southerners on New Ground PowerBase

Southerners On New Ground is 20 years old this year! Come have a gay old time with us at a gathering for SONG members and the entire SONG family. It will be an open, family friendly space for relaxation, renewal, celebration, multi racial and intergenerational loving SONG style. Celebrate with us at beautiful Big Ridge State Park in East Tennessee with family style meals in a group dining hall, a large lake and hiking trails, open-air bunk houses equipped with bunk beds, workshops and skillshares, and any and all gay accessories you want to bring to make it feel like home. REGISTRATION** $20 to $80 for Adults $10 Children & Youth (Please be sure to include children & youth in your registration if they will be accompanying you!)