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2023 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

I think I stubbornly finished every book I started in 2023 although some of them maybe I shouldn’t have. My plan was to read LESS this year than last year and I did a good job. One hundred and fourteen books. I was busier, happier. I did lower my “books by men” percentage an amount that felt good. average read per month: 9.5

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California Forests Are Disappearing–And So Are Air Pollution Disparities

The Lowe Down

African Americans and Latinos are more likely to suffer from respiratory diseases caused by air pollution, because they are more likely to live near sources of pollution, such as highways and industrial facilities (American Lung Association, 2023). in the period 2006-2010. We focus on PM2.5, or particulate matter 2.5, for 2016-2020.

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School district wide retention and improvement initiatives: Kalamazoo Promise

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The school district had been shrinking in enrollment for more than a decade, and in 2006 they introduced a new program, free college tuition for graduates. But it hasn’t been a cure-all ," KG From the second article: Starting with the KPS Class of 2006, The Promise has paid about $200 million in college tuition for more than 7,600 students.

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How to Create Agile Leadership at Your Nonprofit

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

The Nonprofit MBA Podcast PRESS RELEASE March 1, 2023 How to Create Agile Leadership at Your Nonprofit, Featuring Diane Leonard on The Nonprofit MBA Podcast Nonprofit organizations are increasingly adopting agile Leadership to achieve their mission and goals. million dollars in competitive grant awards for their clients.

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Implications and Geography of Office to Housing Conversions

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

On February 28th, 2023, Mark Willis, the NYU Furman Center’s Senior Policy Fellow, testified at a City Council Oversight Hearing on Residential Conversions of Office Buildings. This post describes three resources to help inform the debate.

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Improving the food system related host/ess gifts for Thanksgiving

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Restaurants are still closing in 2023. But hands down, the easiest bread to bake comes from the recipes by Jim Lahey of the Sullivan Street Bakery in New York City, first popularized by an article in the New York Times in 2006 --although it took me til 2020 to finally start baking it regularly. Photo: Jonathan Wiggs, Boston Globe.

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Updating the best practice elements of revitalization to include elements 7 and 8 | Transformational Projects Action Planning at a large scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Around 2006 it "repaired" Thomas Circle, which decades before had been cut through with more road travel lanes. Again DC has a great example as c. 2000 it was national best practice in terms of improving streetscapes in commercial districts, significantly boosting success of those areas. They remade it into a full park circle.