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  Shit business is serious business

  Nissa Lee | Fri, Jan 25th, 2008 | Category: Report | Tags: nissa lee, ashoka-lemelson fellowship program, world toilet organization, shit business, dignified mobile toilets, urban development institute | 0

  Dilapidated neighborhood environments are often thought of as the result of poverty, but sanitation entrepreneurs around the world would like to think that it’s the other way around: poverty is, in part, the result of unsavory living conditions. So instead of grappling with the complex monster of economics, why not make changes that are tangible to the people?

  The Ashoka-Lemelson Fellowship Program supports inventors and entrepreneurs who do just that. Five Fellows in particular are…

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  The place to pee: Will Philadelphia embrace the International Year of Sanitation?

  Nissa Lee | Sun, Jan 13th, 2008 | Category: Report | Tags: michael nutter, nissa lee, public toilets, international year of sanitation, national public toilet map | 0

  Bathrooms boost morale. They are considered sacred spaces: private sanctuaries for men and women alike; adventure grounds for children; and, admittedly, hot spots for cigarette-smoking high school students. Regardless of the bathroom’s use (or misuse), it has provided a sense of spatial security and individual privilege when needed most. This is essentially why the United Nations General Assembly has declared 2008 the International Year of Sanitation . By calling attention to the…

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  How Cities Capitalize on the Gay Community

  Nissa Lee | Fri, Jan 4th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: tourism, nissa lee, gary j gates, nightlife gay, capitalize on the gay community, gay community | 0

  

  
  

  -photo courtesy of Ladestra

  
  “Come to Philadelphia. Get your history straight and your nightlife gay.”

  Sound familiar? This campaign slogan, pitched in 2003, has helped Philadelphia rake in its share from the $54.1 billion gay tourism market. In an article entitled ”How a city grows gay-friendly,” Jerry McHugh with Community Marketing Inc. says, “Gay visitors to Philadelphia spend almost 2½ times more each day and 80 percent more on a hotel than other tourists. Gay men and lesbians…

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  New ideas for wind energy

  Nissa Lee | Sat, Dec 22nd, 2007 | Category: Report | Tags: nissa lee, stormblade turbine, wind energy, turbine, ben storan, alternative energy, energy independence and security act, kidwind project | 0

  This past Tuesday, President Bush signed the Energy Independence and Security Act into law. Among its many provisions, the Act will help states provide grants to “fund local initiatives, including building and home energy conservation programs, energy audits, fuel conservation programs … and alternative energy programs.”

  Wind is one of the alternative energy sources that the government has in mind. A December 13, 2007 article from The New York Times states that the bill has the…

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