Creatives and entrepreneurs (this website’s target audience) solicit ideas and inspiration from around the world, and since many of them are actually moving overseas, it’s economically beneficial to learn which countries are tapping into their deepest values.  One of those values lies in green building and environmentalism - Fortune calls it the Next Big Thing and the market has been growing by a third each year ($7 billion in 2005.)

So it may be a good idea to understand how Sweden has

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Up until the middle of the 20th century, the economy of Easthampton, MA ran on textile mills.  Ever since then, the town of 16,000 people about 100 miles west of Boston has been struggling to find a new economy to grow from.

Enter the Eastworks, a 500,000 s.f. former mill turned mecca for arts-related industries founded in 1997 by some rather visionary small developers.  Among designers in clothes, jewelry, software, art and photography are 46 live-work lofts and the Marketplace at Eastworks,

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