These are urban design movements aimed to reform all aspects of urban development and sustainable living. Help to create neighborhoods that are walkable, and contain a diverse range of housing and jobs. Let's restore our urban fabric and communities!

In 2010, local capital networks were named one of BusinessWeek’s big ideas for small business and entrepreneurship. People want to do more than just buy local - now they want to invest local too. Moving money from Wall Street to Main Street and facilitating the flow of capital from regional people to regional businesses meeting regional needs is a critical next step in the evolution toward more sustainable local economies. Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE), North America’s f …

Rule #1: always know where the exits are. This rule is not only important for daily life (zombies notwithstanding, what about fires? Or ninjas?), but in a larger sense, it's important to realize that there is no one right way to live.  Mainstream culture has decided we operate in a pseudo-democratic, consumption-driven global economy.  Okay.  But what if we don't want to? The beautiful thing about rule #1 is that it is a rule made for the present, not the hypothetical future.  It is a rule we c …