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Water

Water is critical. What issues, concerns, solutions interest you.

4 Jan 22, 2012
Community Quality of Life
by Carolyn Shafer

Food

Local food abundance.

3 Jan 14, 2012
Reply by Carolyn Shafer

Soil

Understanding the importance of soil.

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Housing

Houses can be more than just a building.

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Energy

Local systems are more resilient.

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Education

"Education, in the largest sense, is any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character, or physical ability of an individual. In its technical sense, education is the process by which society deliberately transmits its accumulated knowledge, skills, and values from one generation to another." Wikipedia

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Economy

"An economy consists of the economic system of an area (labor, capital, land resources, economic agents) that socially participate in the production, exchange, distribution, and consumption of goods and services of that area. A given economy is the end result of a process that involves its technological evolution, history and social organization, as well as its geography, natural resource endowment, and ecology, as main factors. These factors give context, content, and set the conditions and parameters in which an economy functions." Wikipedia

2 Sep 12, 2011
GDP Alternatives to Measure of Economic Wealth and Health
by Carolyn Shafer

Resources / Recycling

"Processing used materials into new products to prevent waste of potentially useful materials, reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials, reduce energy usage, reduce air pollution from incineration and water pollution from landfilling by reducing the need for "conventional" waste disposal." Wikipedia

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Community / Social Organizations

How we come together.

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Transportation

Horses, bicycles, feet, vehicles, ride sharing.

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Public Health

"The science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals." C.E.A. Winslow (1920)

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Everything Else / Suggestion Box

Community interest indicated by participation will create new categories.

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