I was looking back through vacation photos from my husband’s and my 2008 trip to London and ran across the picture above. Congestion charging started in London back in 2003, and they extended the covered area in 2007. Basically, cars that want to drive in certain high-traffic areas have to pay a toll or face a fine

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Great Idea: Congestion Charging

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Remember the amazing Repurposed Pallet Adirondack Chair (PAC) from designer Shelton Davis?

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Build Your Own Pallet Adirondack Chair

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Turnips at Atlanta’s Peachtree Road Farmers Market After some complaints, the City of Atlanta is looking to regulate farmers markets within the city limits. One complaint came from a citizen concerned about market safety.

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New Fees Might Mean Trouble for Atlanta Farmers’ Markets

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“But even if we act to erase material poverty, there is another greater task, it is to confront the poverty of satisfaction – purpose and dignity – that afflicts us all. Too much and for too long, we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our Gross National Product, now, is over $800 billion dollars a year, but that Gross National Product – if we judge the United States of America by that – that Gross National Product counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage.

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Inspirational Kennedy Quote

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