As the National Park Service prepares to turn 100 in August, our national parks represent a treasure in need of need attention, says Stuart Pimm, a professor of conservation ecology who helped establish the new Park Institute of America, an independent nonprofit located at Duke that’s dedicated to protecting our national parks.
“Fewer new businesses are being started in aggregate, but the expected quality of the new businesses that are starting is high -- possibly higher than ever before. Entrepreneurship is getting more selective.”
“There was a period in the 2000s, when the gun reform movement was in the doldrums. But all these mass shootings, along with new resources that have come into the movement from Michael Bloomberg and others, really have led to a resurgence.”
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National Parks
The payoff for supporting our national parks
As the National Park Service prepares to turn 100 in August, our national parks represent a treasure in need of need attention, says Stuart Pimm, a professor of conservation ecology who helped establish the new Park Institute of America, an independent nonprofit located at Duke that’s dedicated to protecting our national parks.
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Foreign Policy
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Global Causes
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U.S. Business
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“Fewer new businesses are being started in aggregate, but the expected quality of the new businesses that are starting is high -- possibly higher than ever before. Entrepreneurship is getting more selective.”
TechCrunch
The payoff from supporting our national parks
Gun Control
Whatever happened to Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun crusade? It still exists — and it’s starting to work.
“There was a period in the 2000s, when the gun reform movement was in the doldrums. But all these mass shootings, along with new resources that have come into the movement from Michael Bloomberg and others, really have led to a resurgence.”
Slate
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