Common Ground

U.S. Rep. John Lewis and Elwin Wilson clasp hands after both received the Common Ground award in Washington. "Maybe, just maybe, we can transform the world," Lewis told the crowd. WASHINGTON At the Canadian Embassy on Thursday night,...

In this article: John Lewis, Rock Hill, Washington, U.S., and Jordan

Apple Day, celebrating apples and orchards, was officially on October 21, but events are held throughout the country all month. Common Ground, the arts and environment charity that founded Apple Day in 1989, compiles an annual listing of...

In this article: Apple Day, Sue Clifford, Scotland, and Britain

...produce not only cuts down on food miles, it helps local farmers and is good for our health." Apple Day, organised by campaign group Common Ground, was started almost 20 years ago to promote British apples amid fears traditional...

In this article: UK, Apple Day, Climate change, and Tesco

...is provided by the theme of rivers, and the high quality of the writing. Sue Clifford and Angela King, co-founders of the charity Common Ground, write particularly well about the language of rivers; Jarvis Cocker writes about his...

In this article: East Nashville, River Forth, and Mississippi

...by Susan Clifford and Angela King , Common Ground aims to promote "local distinctiveness " (a phrase which Common Ground coined during the 1980s) . Common Ground has always been a non-membership organisation (grant and donation-funded)...

In this article: Apple Day, Andy Goldsworthy, Hodder & Stoughton, Cartography, and David Nash

...and other physical and mental issues. The Venice Chronic Homeless Intervention Project is based on a model developed in 2005 by Common Ground, a New York agency that substantially reduced homelessness in Times Square. It follows the...

In this article: Los Angeles Times

Sue Clifford co-founded Common Ground , an organisation which campaigns to link nature with culture and the positive investment people can make in their own localities, with Angela King in 1983. She has worked as a planner and as a...

In this article: Sue Clifford, Conference, CPRE, University College London, Nicholas Crane, Richard Mabey, and Bill Bryson

...ways we live with wood - heat, chairs, cricket bats, artists who work in wood. Deakin, who founded the British environmental group Common Ground, lived on a farm in Suffolk that he purchased in 1969, rebuilding the timber-frame house...

In this article: Coyote, Roger Deakin, New York City, Wyoming, Cartography, and Walnut

"You salute," said his wife of 65 years, Iola. Three organizations also received the Ben Franklin award: nonprofit group Search for Common Ground, consumer products maker Johnson & Johnson Inc. and the University of Southern...

In this article: Dave Brubeck, State Department, Dwight D. Eisenhower, World War II, University of Southern California, Take Five, Frederic Chopin, and Poland

...a church altar to being honored at the most unlikely of places alongside the most unlikely of people. The Washington-based Search for Common Ground, a nongovernmental organization and international leader in conflict resolution, has chosen...

In this article: Henry "Hank" Johnson, John Marks, Muhammad Ali, Jack Kemp, Henry Cisneros, and Polarization