Our founder, Gray Brechin, assisted by John Elrick, Shaina Potts and Alex Tarr, presented an overview of the Living New Deal project on the Berkeley campus, October 9th, at 3:40 pm.   Gray’s summary of the talk:

Now based at the UC Berkeley Department of Geography, the Living New Deal has grown from a book idea to a nationwide team effort to inventory, map, and interpret the vast public works legacy of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal programs. More than an archaeological excavation of what a progressive administration accomplished in less than a decade to extricate the U.S. from the Great Depression, the project also demonstrates how dependent we all are on an infrastructure eighty years old as well as offering a demonstrably successful alternative to the failed policies of austerity in the U.S. and Europe.