Recycling plastic bags is an issue that usually doesn’t upset environmental groups or even municipalities, especially when landfills and roadsides are littered with the recyclable material. Last week in Illinois, however, environmentalists and local governments raised objections to a
MORE >New York was planning to tear down the High Line, an abandoned elevated railroad in Manhattan, when Robert Hammond and a few friends suggested: Why not make it a park? In this talk at the TED conference, he shares how it happened in this tale of local
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