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Car Free Movement
The car-free movement is a broad, informal, emergent network of individuals and organizations including social activists, urban planners and others brought together by a shared belief that cars are too dominant in most modern cities. The goal of the movement is to create places where car use is greatly reduced or eliminated, to convert road and parking space to other public uses and to rebuild compact urban environments where most destinations are within reach by public transport, walkinge etc - Read More
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Topics : Organization Lifestyle
Some aspects of sustainability
Dematerialization, remanufacturing, zero waste closed-loop systems, replacnig product purchases with efficient services (such as "performance contracting")
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Topics : Renewable Energy
Community Energy Cooperative
Chicago-based non profit for building sustainable communities - working to reduce energy use during peak load
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Topics : Society
Sustainable Furniture by BlueGreen & Co
Furniture dumping is a big business in our throw-away society: even charities end up sending 15% of what they get to the landfill because it is in unacceptable shape. BlueGreen&Co. take the broken down furniture acquired from donations from a charity and destined for landfill sites. They dismantle it and recreate new, contemporary pieces. And they work with unemployed, low-skilled people to teach them the tricks of the trade. - Read More
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Topics : Lifestyle