NOLaBookish aka blue-collared mind

“support added density. In spite of those challenges, TDR zoning can work. For example, in Montgomery County, adjacent to Washington D.C., TDR zoning has protected 40,000 acres in 20 years, achieving half the area’s farmland preservation goal without any public spending. Serenbe, Georgia, a master-planned farm community in the newly created city of Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia, on the edge of Atlanta, is a model for the successful integration of farming and development. It used TDRs to protect existing farms and the farming way of life by letting a conservancy organization oversee the purchase of development rights.”
― Peter Ladner, The Urban Food Revolution: Changing the Way We Feed Cities

“reveal activists’ largely forgotten strategy of establishing their own independent businesses to advance the work of their movements and to counter corporate power in the 1960s and 1970s. Contrary to popular opinion, Americans involved with social movements and counterculture did not reject business altogether, even as they sorted through its contradictions. In fact, they exercised more control of their businesses’ commercial possibilities than scholars have previously recognized.”
― Joshua Clark Davis, From Head Shops to Whole Foods: The Rise and Fall of Activist Entrepreneurs

“office inaugurated Rural Free Delivery in 1896, which promised home mail service on roads passable enough to permit it—a mighty popular idea among rural farmers, who until then had viewed good roads and the taxes they required as schemes favoring big-city dandies on their bikes.”
― Earl Swift, The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways

“Environmental justice activists are traditionally concerned with the disproportionate burden of environmental toxins borne by low-income people and people of color. The West Oakland Farmers Market is in some ways the inverse of this. It is concerned with providing access to environmental benefits — healthy food and public space — through the creation of a local food system.”
― Alison Hope Alkon, Black, White, and Green: Farmers Markets, Race, and the Green Economy