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		<title>Top 10 Ways to Preserve Land and Water in Your Community</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our new &#8220;Top 10 Ways to Preserve Land and Water in Your Community&#8221; gives planners and officials in your community an easy guide to preserve clean water, natural areas, wildlife and working farmland by making the following mandatory for new developments in your community: 1. Inexpensive Preliminary Sketch Plan Include a sketch plan of greenway land, [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.landvoices.org/?p=1180' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Tryon Farm conservation community sponsors educational day for kids'>Tryon Farm conservation community sponsors educational day for kids</a> <small>Tryon Farm, my favorite conservation community and one of LandChoices&#8217;...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://www.landvoices.org/?p=1065' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Preserve your community with natural neighborhoods aka conservation subdivisions'>Preserve your community with natural neighborhoods aka conservation subdivisions</a> <small>Enjoy our new short two minute test drive video through...</small></li>
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		<title>Envisioning Better Communities review part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Envisioning Better Communities: Seeing More Options, Making Wiser Choices, the new planning book by Randall Arendt that I&#8217;m reviewing, is a book I have trouble putting down. (Full disclosure: Randall Arendt is a dedicated member of LandChoices. I’m a big fan of Randall Arendt.) I received a review copy of the book from the American [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.landvoices.org/?p=1010' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: &#8220;Envisioning Better Communities&#8221;: New book by Randall Arendt'>&#8220;Envisioning Better Communities&#8221;: New book by Randall Arendt</a> <small>I&#8217;m excited to read the new book, Envisioning Better Communities (PDF), by...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://www.landvoices.org/?p=1049' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: &#8220;Switch&#8221;: Creating change in communities to preserve land'>&#8220;Switch&#8221;: Creating change in communities to preserve land</a> <small>I&#8217;ve been studying the fantastic book Switch: How to Change...</small></li>
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		<title>Tryon Farm conservation community sponsors educational day for kids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tryon Farm, my favorite conservation community and one of LandChoices&#8217; good friends and supporters, recently sponsored an educational day for the kids of Lydia Home Association in Chicago. I learned about this wonderful event on the Tryon Farm Facebook page. The games and events were successfully led by educators from the Indiana Soil and Water [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.landvoices.org/?p=951' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Get Your Conservation Design Scorecard'>Get Your Conservation Design Scorecard</a> <small>At LandChoices we are always on the lookout for tools...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://www.landvoices.org/?p=698' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Why do most subdivisions look so bad? With Randall Arendt'>Why do most subdivisions look so bad? With Randall Arendt</a> <small>This is LandChoices first video from our official LandChoices TV...</small></li>
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		<title>Conservation subdivisions: &#8220;Do it backward&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following is a repost from my earlier post (September 4, 2009): I like Randall Arendt’s approach to conservation subdivisions: “Do It Backward”. First, set aside land for conservation. This eliminates the left-over conservation areas that are traditionally created. Last, divide up the land into parcels. This allows the developer to penpoint the prime developable area, [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.landvoices.org/?p=698' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Why do most subdivisions look so bad? With Randall Arendt'>Why do most subdivisions look so bad? With Randall Arendt</a> <small>This is LandChoices first video from our official LandChoices TV...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://www.landvoices.org/?p=827' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Take a ten second survey on conservation subdivisions'>Take a ten second survey on conservation subdivisions</a> <small>LandChoices is working to come up with an alternate name...</small></li>
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		<title>Urban gardens in Detroit gain popularity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post is written by guest blogger and friend Kaitlin Slattery. Thank you Kaitlin for the terrific information! In the next year alone, hundreds of acres of urban farms and urban gardens in Detroit will be operational—and those numbers are only growing. In the next 10 years, a vision (see &#8220;A New Harvest for Detroit&#8220;) [...]


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		<title>&#8220;Envisioning Better Communities&#8221; book is a gem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  Envisioning Better Communities, the new planning book by Randall Arendt, is a gem. (Full disclosure: Randall Arendt is a dedicated member of LandChoices. I&#8217;m a big fan.)  This week I received a review copy of the book from the American Planning Association. I will review the book in a series of blog posts. The subtitle, Seeing [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.landvoices.org/?p=1049' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: &#8220;Switch&#8221;: Creating change in communities to preserve land'>&#8220;Switch&#8221;: Creating change in communities to preserve land</a> <small>I&#8217;ve been studying the fantastic book Switch: How to Change...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://www.landvoices.org/?p=740' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Conservation planning: &#8220;You&#8217;d never drain a lake&#8230;&#8221;'>Conservation planning: &#8220;You&#8217;d never drain a lake&#8230;&#8221;</a> <small>We asked LandChoices&#8217; advisory group member and conservation developer Ed...</small></li>
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		<title>Green development with Natural Neighborhoods, aka conservation subdivisions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Natural neighborhoods, also known as &#8220;conservation subdivisions&#8220;, &#8220;ecological development&#8221;, or &#8220;green development&#8221;, shown in this video, preserve natural areas, water, wildlife and working farmland. Wildlife conservation and farmland conservation are an important part of natural neighborhoods, along with water conservation as large swaths of natural areas filter and absorb storm water. Learn more about natural neighborhoods. [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.landvoices.org/?p=998' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Natural Neighborhoods: From LandChoices.org'>Natural Neighborhoods: From LandChoices.org</a> <small>This is a short video we created to promote natural...</small></li>
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		<title>Visit our new blog to save Boy Scout, Girl Scout and outdoor camps for kids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Visit SaveCamps.org, our new blog to save Girl Scout, Boy Scout and other outdoor camps for kids. Please comment, share, subscribe and help us spread the word. A big thank you to volunteer editor Ken Jacobsen for stepping up and helping make this happen to preserve camps for future generations. Related posts:Boy Scouts of America [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.landvoices.org/?p=766' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Girl Guides of Canada to close 16 camps'>Girl Guides of Canada to close 16 camps</a> <small>Girl Guides of Canada is planning to close 16 camps,...</small></li>
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		<title>Help us build a new website to preserve land</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You can help us raise funds for a new website to more efficiently protect water quality, natural areas, wildlife and working farmland near you. Our new website will help planners preserve land in your community. The most important reason we are building a new website is to make it easier for you, the user, to [...]


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		<title>Create your own vision board</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following is a guest post by LandChoices&#8217; friend Jordan Mercedes: It’s not safe to care, but it’s good to care. Caring makes you walk on the edge of something burning strongly in your heart&#8230;and jump! It’s scary to stand up when everyone else sits down. If we’re going to make a difference to save [...]


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