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Jack Marshall of ASAP: Towards an “optimal sustainable population”

We all have opinions on the growth going on in Charlottesville and surrounding counties. But Jack Marshall is well-positioned to make his declaration that Albemarle County needs to set an “optimal sustainable population.” Marshall is a cultural anthropologist who spent many years studying the effects of population growth. Now he’s the president of Advocates for a Sustainable Albemarle Population. He spoke at the annual meeting of the Ivy Creek Foundation on June 25, 2006, in the Foundation’s new education building.

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Wake-Up Call: Jonathan Haidt and the Happiness Hypothesis

What makes life worth living? That deep question is one of the many asked by the advocates of something called “positive psychology.” Jonathan Haidt of the University of Virginia is one of the field’s proponents, and the author of The Happiness Hypothesis. He dropped by WNRN to talk with guest-host Pete Ronayne on the June 25 edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call.

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VABook 2006: The Rise of Conscious Capitalism

Patricia Aburdene was the featured speaker at the annual Virginia Festival of the Book Business Breakfast on Wednesday, March 22, 2006., Aburdene is author of Megatrends 2010: The Rise of Conscious Capitalism. She discussed her new book, which explains why firms like Timberland, Wainwright Bank, 3M, Chiquita Brands, Motorola, Intel and others are taking a stand for corporate social responsibility. Aburdene explains what many have felt but couldn’t prove: Corporate responsibility actually is good business. Old-fashioned values, honest accounting, and stewardship for each other and the environment translate into healthy profits: “doing the right thing” pays off for everyone.



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WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wakeup Call: Preventing Teenage Drinking

What role should school systems play in fighting teenage drinking? That’s one of the questions explored in a panel discussion on alcohol held during the June 18 edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call. Sue Friedman is the chair of the Albemarle County School Board. Frank Birkhead is a parent of a recently graduated student from Western Albemarle High School. Andrew Owen is the coach of the lacrosse team at Western Albemarle.

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Two men dead in Albemarle County plane crash

Two men died this morning when a single-engine plane crashed into an Albemarle County field. County Spokeswoman Lee Catlin says the plane was from Central Virginia, but would not reveal their identities pending notification of next of kin. The bodies will be identified at the University of Virginia medical center this afternoon. Here’s a report from the scene.

Read up on the event at the Daily Progress, cvillenews.com and the Hook.