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Smart Growth Helps Cities Adapt to Aging Boomers: EPA

Posted February 08, 2011 10:11 AM

From Fast Company:

As baby boomers age, the need for elderly friendly towns and cities becomes increasingly important. This week, the EPA announced the winners of the fourth annual Building Healthy Communities for Active Aging award. The award honors communities that are improving quality of life through "smart growth," or growth designed to cut down on commutes and environmental harm; preserve open space; encourage community collaboration; and mix land uses.

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02/09/2011 6:59 AM

This is important for many reasons, but we have a big problem here in the UK, here the baby boomers have come of age and retireing, it is we baby boomers who worked hard to build up our country after the second world war,and payed our taxes, but now our government has put a stop to our pensions, and all we are left with is our government sponsered pension! This is the most unfair and moraly wrong decision, our government pays benefits to almost anyone who comes to our shores from all over the world, but forgets the generation who worked hard, payed their taxes and built up a country that we can be proud of!

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