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Leaders recognize that the industries that once powered its economy are gone forever and now turn to renewable energy manufacturing and technologies for a new green economy in the midwest.

In October 2008 the City of Madison, Wisconsin approved an approach to gathering information on sustainability issues that should be considered in the rewrite of the City of Madison's zoning code.

"The rewrite of the zoning code," says the report from the Public Hearing, "presents the opportunity to provide recommendations to remove obstacles to sustainability, create incentives for sustainability and enact standards for sustainability." More

As we all look ahead to the shape of things to come in the new Obama Administration, two familiar voices together call for a long-range approach to the challenge of food production and consumption in the 21st century.