« SAID AL-HALLAJ BRIAN LEVIN » AGE: 33 FOUNDER: ReBuilding Exchange (website) BUSINESS: Building materials Even before the economy slowed, Zelechowski noticed two problems plaguing her native Chicago: the abundance of construction and demolition waste (from buildings that had fallen into foreclosure and disrepair) and a lack of jobs (for the hard to employ). Her … Read more
« BRIAN LEVIN AGE: 55 PRESIDENT AND CEO: Environmental Design International (website) BUSINESS: Green engineering In 1991, this environmental scientist set out to help developers transform contaminated city lots into usable land. In 2009, Sawyer landed a career-making project when Exelon enlisted her firm, Environmental Design International, to engineer the nation’s largest urban solar … Read more
This year, we are honoring five entrepreneurs with big ideas on how to grow the sustainable economy. What’s the secret to their success? We gathered them together to find out
Why is the Midwest in financial and population decline while the Sun Belt thrives? Annexation, which pulled in vast swaths of suburb just as people were fleeing urban cores, has a lot to do with it.
A hamlet 40 miles west of Green Bay has been shaken by a series of “booms,” scaring the townsfolk and drawing national attention. But strange, unexplained booms, shakes, and shocks are common throughout the world, and have been a mystery for centuries.
In 2000, I proposed to Sarah at a B & B in Lakeside, Michigan. Got down on one knee, took her hand, the whole thing. She proposed back, rings were exchanged, and then we were just kind of like: What do we do now?…
Low turnout, a big victory for Rahm, a respectable victory for the local Democratic establishment, a substantial (if completely predictable) victory for Mitt Romney: an uneventful Illinois primary for the most important election since 1860.
KIRK AND CONSEQUENCES: Gauging the impact of a senator’s absence—now and after November
Illinois had its primary yesterday, and, in an embarrassment to the state and its politicians, not too many voters showed up—24 percent in the lowest turnout in 70 years in a presidential primary. But for people like me, it was feast of important races. Here, some thoughts as I followed the races well into the evening…
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