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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Associate Editor
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Associate Editor
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Peter Chase
Director of Sales
Fred Marks
Director of Sales
N G T M S .....
In the beginning … there was light. And all this time later, we are finally harnessing
light’s energy to power our cities, our buildings, and our everyday devices—mostly
because all of the energy sources we’ve used until now emit incalculable amounts of
carbon and other dangerous particles into the atmosphere, causing what is now widely
understood to be a global climate catastrophe.
C C R C ...... .
The reality of climate change is upon us. Weather patterns have changed, and seasons
have been altered. We experience more intense heat, more frequent, destructive storms,
wide-ranging wildfires, and more destructive cold. Tornadoes—the spawn of conflicting
hot and cold air masses—touch down in places they were once almost unheard of.
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Between the tragedy of the Surfside condominium collapse in Florida and the subsequent
placement of the association in receivership, as well as the flurry of recent press around
popstar Britney Spears’s yearslong struggle against her own financial and legal conser-
vatorship situation, many may be confused—or just curious—about what exactly those
terms mean, and how both an entity like a condo association and a private individual
can be in the same legal ballpark.
T B I G ....
As the COVID-19 pandemic descended upon the country at the end of last winter, nota-
bly taking hold initially and most prominently in New York City’s outer boroughs, which
include some of the most diverse zip codes in the United States, it quickly became appar-
ent that communities of color were being impacted more heavily and more severely by
the pandemic
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