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President Obama’s Promise Zones Initiative

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” The first five Zones, located in San Antonio, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Southeastern Kentucky, and the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, have each put forward a plan on how they will partner with local business and community leaders to make investments that reward hard work and expand opportunity.

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UPDATE: Seven New Locations Added To President Obama’s Promise Zones Initiative

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” The first five Zones, located in San Antonio, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Southeastern Kentucky, and the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, have each put forward a plan on how they will partner with local business and community leaders to make investments that reward hard work and expand opportunity.

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Children of the Sun

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Department of Agriculture: the USDA recently awarded the largest grant it has given out this year in a program to develop emerging businesses in rural areas–the $500,000 grant will help an Oklahoma town raise and sell butterflies. The Euchee Butterfly Farm specializes in the rearing of butterflies native to Oklahoma. Government.

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: Earth USA 2011

Natural Building

Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture. Sustainable architecture is an exciting and important field, with many people reviving traditional methods of building and others creating innovations to established practices. Kelly has lived in an earthbag/papercrete home that he built and consults about sustainable building design.

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Energy Innovation: Solar Energy Solutions Continue to Gain Momentum

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Solar trees at Florida's Babcock Ranch, where sustainability is built into the infrastructure. Sustainability. There is no perfect panacea in one energy source,” said Bill Owens, founder and president of Owens Construction , in Worthington, Ohio, in a recent webinar sponsored by the Propane Education & Research Council (PERC). “It

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Question about Light Straw/Clay Answered

Natural Building

As many of you know I maintain an “Ask the Experts” opportunity at www.greenhomebuilding.com for people to post specific questions that they might have regarding various aspects of natural building and sustainable architecture. The various questions and answers are eventually posted on the website for people to learn from.

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Business Facilities’ 15th Annual Rankings: State Rankings Report

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The states that have put the assets in place today to support a thriving cybersecurity industry—including STEM-oriented higher education programs with cyber-specific degrees and R&D facilities working in tandem with national security agencies, the U.S. military and business—will rule the cyber sector tomorrow. In May, Gov.