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		<title>Consensus convenes statewide Missouri River basin engagement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Jennifer Wilding, director of Consensus
Farmers, historians, businesspeople, environmentalists, people who make their living taking sand or water from the river, and those whose livelihood depends on recreation all gathered Oct. 2 at a hotel meeting room in Jefferson City. Their job? To discuss how best to restore the Missouri River basin ecosystem. Consensus was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onekcvoice.wordpress.com&blog=5589691&post=390&subd=onekcvoice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://onekcvoice.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/consensusmoriverbasin/</link>
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		<title>Why you should care about disaster preparedness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Stephanie Williams, MARC Public Affairs Specialist
On Feb. 28, 2001, I was sitting in an archaeology lecture on the third floor of Gowen Hall, an old, red-brick building on the University of Washington campus in Seattle. The room had an enormously high ceiling with lights like upside-down salad bowls suspended on the ends of long [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onekcvoice.wordpress.com&blog=5589691&post=386&subd=onekcvoice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://onekcvoice.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/naturaldisaster/</link>
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		<title>Learning from social research practices</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Stephanie Williams, MARC Public Affairs Specialist
What is the relationship between social research and public involvement? And are the two fields mutually exclusive? Not exactly.
For decades, social researchers have made careers and answered questions using quantitative and qualitative research methods. The designs are ideally carefully constructed to ensure that the results are representative of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onekcvoice.wordpress.com&blog=5589691&post=384&subd=onekcvoice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://onekcvoice.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/socialresearch/</link>
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		<title>Equity and sustainability in Greater Kansas City</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Daniel Cash, One KC Voice Program Coordinator
Sustainability is a word that is used today most often to refer to stewardship of the physical environment in order to preserve quality of life for future generations.
I spent nearly 20 years working with indigenous and often marginalized people in developing countries. Our use of the word recognized [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onekcvoice.wordpress.com&blog=5589691&post=380&subd=onekcvoice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://onekcvoice.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/equity/</link>
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		<title>The state of the region</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Daniel Cash, One KC Voice Program Coordinator
What is the role of the citizen, in citizen engagement?
We recently completed two major projects that have the potential to have a great impact on quality of life in the Kansas City region over the next 20–30 years. The first, Imagine KC, asked citizens to imagine a sustainable [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onekcvoice.wordpress.com&blog=5589691&post=377&subd=onekcvoice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://onekcvoice.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/stateofce/</link>
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		<title>Your ideas for an open government</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Daniel Cash, One KC Voice Program Coordinator
Are you participating in the Open Government Dialogue? If you&#8217;re not, you should be. Go to Open Government Dialogue, where you can see more than 2,500 ideas for making our government more open and transparent submitted by individuals and organizations. You can also vote on the ideas you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onekcvoice.wordpress.com&blog=5589691&post=369&subd=onekcvoice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://onekcvoice.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/opengov/</link>
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		<title>If this post uses the word environment, you probably will not read it unless you are an environmentalist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Jennifer Wilding, Kansas City Consensus
Over the years, I have facilitated many discussions, some of which have dealt with the environment. I want to start a conversation about something I have noticed: People who show up to discuss environmental topics are experts. It is extremely rare for someone not involved in environmental issues to attend a public [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onekcvoice.wordpress.com&blog=5589691&post=357&subd=onekcvoice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://onekcvoice.wordpress.com/2009/05/14/participation/</link>
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		<title>White House creates Office of Public Engagement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the new Office of Public Engagement Web page:

ABOUT THE OFFICE OF PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
The Office of Public Engagement is the open front door to the White House.
The Office of Public Engagement is the embodiment of the President’s goal of making government inclusive, transparent, accountable and responsible.
We create and coordinate opportunities for direct dialogue between the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onekcvoice.wordpress.com&blog=5589691&post=347&subd=onekcvoice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://onekcvoice.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/ope/</link>
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		<title>*URGENT*: Greater KC transit funding (ACT NOW)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (KCATA), a major public transit provider in the Kansas City region, will be forced to make drastic service reductions by next month if citizens don&#8217;t act right now.
According to an e-mail from KCATA:

Kansas City&#8217;s bus system needs your help TODAY! In an unexpected move last night, lawmakers passed a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onekcvoice.wordpress.com&blog=5589691&post=328&subd=onekcvoice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://onekcvoice.wordpress.com/2009/05/05/transitfunding/</link>
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		<title>Local projects supporting sustainability</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Daniel Cash, One KC Voice citizen engagement coordinator
A synergy that can help our region move toward sustainability is building among people, initiatives and organizations in Greater Kansas City. Two of these are Bridging The Gap&#8217;s EarthWalk/EarthFest and Congressman Emanuel Cleaver, II&#8217;s proposed Green Impact Zone of Missouri.
Showing support for sustainability: EarthWalk and EarthFest
Bridging The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onekcvoice.wordpress.com&blog=5589691&post=306&subd=onekcvoice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://onekcvoice.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/earthfestgizmo/</link>
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