Author: SCM

From Citiwire comes some coverage of our colleague, Carol Coletta’s new initiative: Roberta Brandes Gratz / Sep 24 2011 By God they got it! They finally got it! Bravo to National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco...

From  The Independent (London): Making a castle from a big cardboard box is the first step for many amateur builders. Generally, cardboard architecture is left behind by the time we turn eight – few would imagine it being used...

From the Sydney Morning Herald:   ”Australians who think the carbon tax is asking them to live without the creature comforts should come and look at this building,” Julia Gillard said, opening Sydney’s...

From Sustainable Cities Collective: Don’t count the Motor City out just yet.  Companies are now fleeing its suburban office parks for downtown, writes Louis Aguilar in The Detroit News: “When MyInsuranceExpert.com announced last...

From The Urban Child Institute: These last few weeks, the 8,000 members of the Class of ‘25 took their first tentative steps along their journey into school, toward high school graduation and beyond. Today, they’re just five...

From New Rules Project:  The results of a new study suggest that the key to reversing the long-term trend of stagnating incomes in the U.S. lies in nurturing small, locally owned businesses and limiting further expansion and...

From Education Week: Why educators should stop forecasting 21st-century skills and get on with teaching By Christopher L. Doyle Educators make bad prognosticators of the future. There is no shame in that. Politicians,...

From State Science & Technology Institute: Last week, the World Economic Forum released its annual Global Competitiveness Report, and once again, the U.S. fell in the rankings one more position to fifth place, representing a...

From Glenwood Springs (CO) Post Independent: GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado — A new economic study commissioned by a regional land planning institute says local governments have the potential to get more bang for their tax-return...