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Laurie Mazur

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Laurie Mazur is editor of the Island Press Urban Resilience Project, which is supported by the Kresge Foundation and the JPB Foundation. She is the editor of the books A Pivotal Moment: Population, Justice and the Environmental Challenge and Beyond the Numbers: a Reader on Population, Consumption and the Environment and co-author of Marketing Madness: a Survival Guide to a Consumer Society.

Mazur also founded and for several years directed the Funders Network on Population, Reproductive Health and Rights. She is a graduate of Oberlin College.

They give cities a way to share the risk and learn whether new approaches work.
Everyone should have ready access to a high-quality park, but it's especially important for low-income neighborhoods.
It's too hard for low-income households to take advantage of programs to lower their utility bills. Some cities are making progress.
There are many choices and challenges, but it's an attainable goal.