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Go Big on Deficit Reduction

Maya MacGuineas and the Committee for a Reponsible Federal Budget have been calling for the Super Committee to surpass its mandate and "Go Big" to find several times the $1.5 trillion in savings it had been charged with.

In The New York Times, Thomas Friedman applauded this effort and urged President Obama to put the country on a “sustainable economic recovery path” by following the recommendations of the Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction commission.

On Sustainability

The New Yorker and the New America Foundation recently hosted a conversation on sustainability with chef Dan Barber, presidential adviser Carol Browner, and author Daniel Yergin. The event was moderated by New Yorker staff writer Michael Specter.

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Sustainability as Strategy

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New America's Smart Strategy Initiative seeks to provoke discourse about a grand strategy to address the challenges facing the U.S. and the world in the first half of the 21st century.

Grist Magazine featured Director Patrick Doherty and the initiative's work in a story highlighting the military's growing attention on sustainability measures and "smart growth" to address some of the vulnerabilities in the nation's food, energy, and socioeconomic systems.