Topic: Tucson

Fast Cities: Tucson

In 2003, Tucson native and former surgeon general Richard Carmona challenged his friend, Mayor Robert E. Walkup, to turn their hometown into the model of a healthy city. He has done it, reshaping his city into a place where health and safety aren't an afterthought, but an integral part of municipal planning.READ»

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Are Writing Conferences important?

This is the perfect question to ask upon my return from the Wrangling with Writing Conference in Tucson, AZ. I’ll let you answer that question for yourself based on my experience. At the conference, I taught four workshops, gave ...READ»

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They're 15 up-and-coming hubs for creative workers--places that draw people who are talented, tech savvy, and tolerant. Meet the home of your next big opportunity.READ»

Stable Hand

Even the CEO of a spa knows stress. John Vanderslice, 45, feels it as he grows Miraval from a destination resort into a lifestyle brand (including a 365-unit apartment building in New York, set to open this summer). Vanderslice uses his insider info about relaxation to find balance. It's either that, or eat his hat.READ»

Summer Voluntary Humanitarian Repatriation Resumes to the Mexican Interior

A program of voluntary humanitarian repatriation has been continued for the sixth consecutive year.READ»

Enough Is Enough

There is a place in the Arizona desert where high-powered professionals search for ways to redesign their out-of-kilter lives. Dan Baker is their guide. Can he guide you on your search?READ»

Fast Cities: Malmö, Sweden

After recession nearly wiped out Malmö's industrial base in the 1980s, the city had a chance to start over. It created eco-friendly neighborhoods of transformed tenements and old shipyards.READ»

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Scratch My Back Marketing Explained

Scratch My Back Marketing is based on some very simple spiritual principals. For many of us it harkens back to Sunday school sermons. It was often taught all over the world in various religious groups that it is better to give than ...READ»

Fast Cities 2009: Seattle Is the City of the Year

Seattle, the city that sprawls across seven hills, is Fast Company's city of the year for 2009. A visit to the city last month reminded me of all the reasons it was chosen. The car rental agency at the airport handed me the smart ...READ»

The Digital Debutants' Ball

Inside PC Forum, a posh coming-out party where fresh young startups flirt with the industry's rich and famous. Who will grab the golden ring -- and who will go home broken-hearted?READ»

Museum of Chinese in America Opens Doors

Picture it: a monolithic testament to Chinese culture in America, ensconced in the middle of New York's Chinatown and built by one of the leading Chinese-American designers in the world. This MOCA isn't in LA, Massachusetts, ...READ»

There's Gold in Them Thar Smelly Hills

A single ton of junked PCs has more gold than 17 tons of ore. That's why landfills might--just might--pay for their own cleanup.READ»

The Medium is the Massage

Our intrepid traveler seeks answers to the eternal questions: Are spas overrun by rich matrons? What's the deal with New Age music? And why am I buck naked in front of total strangers?READ»

After The Debate, The Housing Crisis Marches On

'Joe the Plumber' and William Ayers got more air time than Henry Paulson or Ben Bernanke during last night's Presidential Debate. That was a missed opportunity.READ»

Innovators Reveal Cool, Creative Spots in Seattle

Where are the cool and the creative? Nine Seattleites on the places that inspire them in their hometown.READ»

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Fast Cities: Cleveland

One of America's most blighted cities, hard hit by rustification and foreclosure, is also home to one of its loveliest urban initiatives, a plan to create acres of tree nurseries, oases of native plants, and community gardens with bees and chickens.READ»

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Fast Cities: New York

In the aftermath of September 11, New York police commissioner Ray Kelly built the most successful local counterterrorism unit in the U.S. and perhaps the world. The team, which has 600 experts that know some four dozen languages, routinely dispatches officers overseas for work in cities believed to be terror targets.READ»

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Nissan Proves a Big Market Exists for Cheap Electric Cars

Abandon your doubts that an affordably priced EV will do well. Nissan's news yesterday confirms it: Almost 22,000 people in North America have contacted Nissan since it announced, in August, that the LEAF EV sedan--expected to hit ...READ»

Fast Cities: Vancouver, British Columbia

The host of the 2010 Winter Games is going for green, using its big moment as a chance to catalyze change. All 18 buildings in Vancouver's Olympic Village are being built to LEED Gold and LEED Platinum standards.READ»

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Fish-on-Friday: Drug-Making, No-Stop Toll Booths, China Flights & More

A Friday sampler of innovation and business news from beyond the normal biznews channels. MIT Wants to Modernize Drug Making Medicine these days is made much the way Merlin would have — with ingredients and steps batched in a ...READ»

Fast Cities: Denver

The arts may often be associated with money and power, but the Mile-High City's Five by Five program opens the doors of Denver's cultural institutions to some of its youngest and poorest residents.READ»

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Fast Cities: New Orleans

The recovery of post-Katrina New Orleans has unleashed a new generation of social entrepreneurs. A sterling example: the Broadmoor Improvement Association and its dynamic president, LaToya Cantrell. Broadmoor is a racially mixed, middle-class historic district dating to the 1920s.READ»

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Fast Cities: Chicago

It seems almost too simple: one card that gives access to the trains, buses, and a local car-sharing program. The Smart Card is Chicago-based nonprofit I-Go Car Sharing's idea to extend public transportation to include public cars.READ»

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38 Minutes Matches Truckers and Shippers--Finally

In about 1999 or 2000, I met a neat Canadian guy, former Citibanker, who was starting a company during the dotcom boom. At the time, the company was called VR Solutions, a software solution in the model of the exchanges that were ...READ»