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About the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation By convening individuals around issues, innovations and ideas that will shape the quality of life for families in Atlanta and beyond, the Blank Family Foundation aspires to spur civic action and citizen involvement for positive change in people’s lives. September 16, 2008 - Jeff Greenfield, CBS News Senior Political Correspondent
Shelby Highsmith, part of MTV's Street Team '08, reporting on the election from the point of view of young voters, covered the Greenfield event for his blog, and Shelby recorded the event using streaming video. You can view his coverage here. Watch video from local students covering the elections. Georgia Public Broadcasting is proud to serve as a multi-media educational partner with the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation. Please visit GPB's Election 2008 website to view the recent speech by esteemed CBS News Senior Political Correspondent Jeff Greenfield presented as part of the Foundation's Speaker series. GPB's Election 2008 website also contains information about the broadcast of Greenfield's speech on GPB Knowledge in October, PBS and NPR election coverage and daily local updates from GPB Radio News. XM Radio's POTUS '08 channel will be re-broadcasting the Greenfield. Check XM's online listings for the schedule. You can follow Jeff Greenfield's reporting on the election by visiting the CBS News web site and using Jeff's name as the search term. To get the latest information on local elections, visit The League of Women Voters of Atlanta-Fulton County. April 10, 2008 - Going Green: Creating Sustainable Cities Greg Nickels was sworn in as the 51st Mayor of the City of Seattle on Jan. 7, 2002. Since then he has earned a national reputation for innovative leadership in transportation, public safety, jobs, climate disruption and other challenges facing cities. On Feb. 16, 2005, as 141 nations ratified the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change into law, Mayor Nickels challenged mayors across the country to join Seattle in taking local action to reduce global warming pollution by launching the US Mayors Climate Protection Agreement. To date, more than 780 mayors representing 78 million Americans have accepted the challenge, pledging to meet or beat the Kyoto target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 7 percent below 1990 levels by 2012. One in four Americans now lives in a city committed to reducing their greenhouse gas pollution. Following the roadmap laid out in the 2006 Seattle Climate Action Plan, the City has invested in transportation alternatives, clean buildings, and energy conservation. In October, Mayor Nickels announced that the City was participating in a project to test the performance of 12 plug-in hybrid cars. More than 100 LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) energy-efficient buildings were in the works at the end of 2007, and, in December, Seattle debuted the South Lake Union Streetcar, linking hundreds of new jobs and condominiums in the Cascade neighborhood. Rolling Stone has called Nickels the "Pied Piper" of mayors for his work to protect our climate and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded him its 2006 Climate Protection Award.
November 26, 2007:
Mr. Kristof writes op-ed columns that appear twice each week in The New York Times. A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, he previously was associate managing editor of The Times, responsible for the Sunday Times. Since 2004, Mr. Kristof has written dozens of columns about Darfur, winning his second Pulitzer Prize in 2006, for what the judges called "his graphic, deeply reported columns that, at personal risk, focused attention on genocide in Darfur and that gave voice to the voiceless in other parts of the world." His columns have often focused on global health, poverty and gender issues in the developing world. He has lived on four continents, reported on six, and traveled to 120 countries. He has also won other prizes including the George Polk Award, the Overseas Press Club award, the Michael Kelly award, the Online News Association award and the American Society of Newspaper Editors award. Connect with these organizations to do more:
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August 2, 2007:
In the first decade of the 21st Century, the future of American cities is attracting great debates. One notion is that to become a City of Aspiration, Atlanta and other urban areas must focus on providing the greatest number of opportunities to the broadest spectrum of residents. Kotkin believes that a city and region's ability to create jobs, offer affordable housing and generate entrepreneurial openings to a growing and highly diverse population are the surest signs of urban vibrancy. The City of Aspiration embraces the fundamental principle that one of the primary, historic roles of cities has been to nurture and grow a middle class - to be an engine of upward mobility. About Joel Kotkin
Joel has completed studies on the future of several major cities, including New York, St. Louis, Houston, Phoenix, Laval (Quebec’s second largest city) and Los Angeles. Mr. Kotkin is the author of the best-selling books, The City: A Global History and The New Geography: How the Digital Revolution is Reshaping the American Landscape and regularly writes for The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. His work is available at www.joelkotkin.com. Mr. Kotkin attended the University of California, Berkeley. A native New Yorker, he has lived in California since 1971. Married to Mandy Shamis, Joel has two daughters and lives in Los Angeles. For more information:
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This Speaker Series event is co-sponsored by the Atlanta Regional Commission's Fifty Forward Initiative, an effort to create an on-going discussion of the factors that will shape the Atlanta region's future over the next 50 years. The program will bring together public, private, and civic sector leaders to craft a vision of the preferred future for the region and engender commitment to creating that future. 
An internationally-recognized authority on global, economic, political and social trends, futurist Joel Kotkin is an Irvine Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation and Presidential Fellow at the Hobbs Institute at Chapman University in Southern California.
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