Word: cleanups
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...state that understands what it is like to routinely plunge into near and total catastrophe, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was announcing a quiet revolution. Stunned by what he had recently seen in his own state--neighbors saving one another from wildfires, an oil spill that drew thousands of unsolicited, underutilized cleanup volunteers (above)--he created a new cabinet-level post to manage volunteers...
...This past fall,” she says, PBHA “did a Day of Service, a university-wide project day with a lot of different projects, including a field day at Mission Hill and river cleanup. When a graduate student council member approached PBHA, they wanted to do those one-day, feel-good, paint-a-mural type projects, and we got back to them and said, ‘That’s not really what we’re about...
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Since 1886, New York City's cleanup methods for ticker-tape parades have gotten greener. But the party still isn't exactly eco-friendly...
...restore balance and maintain harmony, more reforms will be needed, among them a significant increase in government spending on social infrastructure, such as education and health care, and on environmental cleanup. With its vastly improved fiscal situation, the government has the money to do these things. It has other tools at its disposal as well, perhaps more than policymakers realize. For example, productivity in Chinese companies is soaring, enabling manufacturers to absorb cost increases without cutting employment. Indeed, high productivity growth is a more important factor than the exchange rate or government subsidies in explaining China's international competitiveness. Researchers...