Food & Climate Change: Growing a Cultural Movement

Food has powerful cultural meaning, and has increasingly become part of the growing ideological and political discussions around the planet’s changing climate. Food can help communities develop, sustain, and increase their viability while helping mitigate negative impacts of climate change. This cross-disciplinary brainstorming and dialogue will examine how sustainable, locally designed and developed solutions can help communities respond to the challenges of climate change.

Government & CommunitiesAbigail KramerOctober 24, 2013climate change, community life, environment, food, policies, politics, public policy, science, sustainability, urban community, urban sustainability Comment

More Voices, More Choices: Expanding Community Participation and Employment Opportunities

Despite popular rhetoric and policy initiatives in support of consumer-friendly services and greater individual choice, many city residents with developmental disabilities still struggle with unemployment, segregation and services tailored to the broad-brush needs of the population, not to individual people. Will the latest state efforts to encourage person-centered planning open up valuable new alternatives?

Government & CommunitiesAbigail KramerJune 14, 2006city government, communities, community infrastructure, community life, community organizations, community participation, developmental disabilities, Developmental Disabilities Watch, disabilities, human services, inequality, policies, public policy, segregation, support systems, unemploymentComment