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Reviving a Black cultural corridor in West Oakland – as a community-led cooperative

Impact Alpha

The post Reviving a Black cultural corridor in West Oakland – as a community-led cooperative appeared first on Impact Alpha. In another era, Esther’s Orbit Room helped make West Oakland the “Harlem of the West,” hosting the likes of B.B. King, James Brown.

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The Alpex Cultural Centre converts a factory into a community center

Inhabitat - Innovation

This community revitalization project breathes new life into existing architecture through adaptive reuse of an old factory.

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The Brief: Black culture on blockchain, community lending, labor market insights, housing equity, Latin America’s creative economy

Impact Alpha

The post The Brief: Black culture on blockchain, community lending, labor market insights, housing equity, Latin America’s creative economy appeared first on Impact Alpha. Greetings, Agents of Impact! Make sure to tune into this ImpactAlpha partner event this week: Global Impact Investing Network convenes “Next Normal Now.

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Community center project allows people to play with triangles

Inhabitat - Innovation

The Center for Culture and Community, a research project by network of architecture (noa*), stands as a model for any community building anywhere in the world. Noa* worked with a philosophy that a community center should meet the needs of all members of the neighborhood.

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The Alpex Cultural Centre converts a factory into a community center

AGreenLiving

With a mission to revitalize the area, the Alpex Cultural Centre is a project that transformed a former machining factory in France for modern use. Throughout the process, firm Atelier Archiplein, in collaboration with (MAW) scenographer, focused on a commitment to honor the planet and the cultural perspective.

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How to advance equity in energy solutions in the COVID-19 era

GreenBiz

During the day I work in the energy sector supporting government and utilities design programs to perform outreach to and educate low-income and diverse communities. Communities in the crosshairs. Meanwhile, COVID-19, just like other structural inequalities, has had the most profound impact on communities of color.

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Amnesty International: Dow’s failure to offer remedy for Bhopal disaster has created a “sacrifice zone”

Envirotec Magazine

This includes operating a pesticide plant that stored and processed highly poisonous chemicals – and which was maintained and supervised below standards of equivalent UCC facilities in the United States – next to densely populated and predominantly Muslim and lower-caste communities living mostly in poverty and in informal housing.

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