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Place Matters: How the Green Building World Can Support Income Mobility

By Heather Joy Rosenberg on 15 Apr 2014 • 2 minute read

Place matters. Where you grow up largely predicts how you will do economically relative to your parents, according to a several studies released earlier this year exploring the links between economic mobility and geography. This correlation underscores the importanc …

Looking for Leaders: The Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy

By Heather Joy Rosenberg on 12 Mar 2014 • 4 minute read

The lives of over 350,000 people in Los Angeles are better because of the work of the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE). LAANE, a non-profit advocacy group founded in 1993, is a leader in creating the “New Economy,” which is essentially a triple bottom …