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NEWS ABOUT: public land

public land stories: 3 news summaries

Wanna Buy the Chunnel? Get it Now From Slash Gordon

Brown mounts $25.3B asset sale, including underwater rail link

Oct 12, 09 3:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is launching a massive $25.3 billion sell-off of Britain's assets, ranging from student loans to the Chunnel linking England and France, in order to reduce record deficits and maintain public expenditures. As the British election draws nearer, the Labor Party is attempting to burnish... More »

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Gordon Brown • privatization • national debt • Eurostar • Channel Tunnel • public goods • public land

 Pistil-Packin'
 Guerrilla Gardeners
 Strike LA 

Green activists stealthily plant food and flowers on unused urban acreage

May 30, 08 10:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - "Guerrilla gardeners" armed with plants are stealthily greening neglected and forgotten patches of land in Los Angeles and other cities across the nation. The furtive horticulturalists have nighttime planting parties or "seed bombings" and turn corners of the city into flower or food gardens, reports the Los Angeles ... More »

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Los Angeles • gardening • cities • public land • activists

During Bust, Green Groups Make Land Grab

Conservationists
snatch idle land from developers' hands

Feb 17, 08 12:19 PM CST
(Newser) - As the subprime debacle rips through real estate, leveling home values and clogging the market with unsold property, an unlikely group of vultures is descending, reports Newsweek. Conservation groups and local governments alike, which sat on the bench during the last boom, are snapping up land from would-be developers to... More »

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real estate • conservation • housing market • housing crisis • Trust for Public Land • land conservation • public land • home values

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