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Kafi Benz

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Kafi Benz (born 1941) is an American author and artist who began participation in social entrepreneurship through environmental preservation and regional planning in 1959 as a member of the Jersey Jetport Site Association, which opposed plans by the New York Port Authority to found a new airport in the Great Swamp, the central feature of a massive 55 square mile watershed in New Jersey bounded to the south and east by the Watchung Mountains, 25 miles west of Manhattan. [1]

83 relations: Act of Congress, Allied Stores, Austin J. Tobin, Bedminster, New Jersey, Berta Margoulies, Bonwit Teller, Ceramic, Chatham Borough, New Jersey, Collection (artwork), Commercial art, Conservation movement, Corporate identity, Curator, Cypress, Documentary film, Drainage basin, El Vernona Hotel-John Ringling Hotel, Environmentalism, Florida Forever, Fortune 500, Framing (construction), Friends of Seagate Inc., Gainor Roberts, Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge, Ghostwriter, Graphic design, Graphic designer, Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Habitat, Historic preservation, Jane Holtz Kay, Jim Gary, Jonathan Talbot, Lake Underwood, List of art media, Litton Industries, Local government in the United States, Macy's, Inc., Manhattan, Marcellus Hartley Dodge Sr., Medication, Mendham Borough, New Jersey, Metropolitan planning organization, Morristown, New Jersey, National Geographic, National Natural Landmark, National Register of Historic Places, Natural history, New College of Florida, Newark Evening News, ..., Newark Liberty International Airport, Novartis, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Owen Burns, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Plat, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Powel Crosley Jr., Real estate development, Regional planning, Regulatory agency, Robert Campeau, Roundabout, Ruskin, Florida, Sarasota Chalk Festival, Sarasota County, Florida, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Sarasota School of Architecture, Sarasota, Florida, Sculptors Guild, Seagate (Manatee County, Florida), Social entrepreneurship, Stewart Udall, Sun City Center, Florida, Tallahassee Museum, Tamiami Trail, The Arts Map, The Bradenton Times, University of South Florida, Urban planning, Watchung Mountains, Watercolor painting, Wetland. Expand index (33 more) »

Act of Congress

An Act of Congress is a statute enacted by the United States Congress.

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Allied Stores

Allied Stores was a department store chain in the United States.

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Austin J. Tobin

Austin Joseph Tobin (May 25, 1903 – February 8, 1978) was an American businessman who served as the executive director of the Port of New York Authority, the precursor to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, from 1942 until 1972.

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Bedminster, New Jersey

Bedminster is a township in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States.

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Berta Margoulies

Berta Margoulies (September 7, 1907 – March 20, 1996) was an American sculptor, born in Lovitz, Poland.

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Bonwit Teller

Bonwit Teller & Co. was a luxury department store in New York City founded by Paul Bonwit in 1895 at Sixth Avenue and 18th Street, and later a chain of department stores.

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Ceramic

A ceramic is a non-metallic solid material comprising an inorganic compound of metal, non-metal or metalloid atoms primarily held in ionic and covalent bonds.

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Chatham Borough, New Jersey

Chatham is a borough in Morris County, New Jersey, United States.

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Collection (artwork)

A museum is distinguished by a collection of often unique objects that forms the core of its activities for exhibitions, education, research, etc.

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Commercial art

Commercial art is the art of creative services, referring to art created for commercial purposes, primarily advertising.

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Conservation movement

The conservation movement, also known as nature conservation, is a political, environmental, and social movement that seeks to protect natural resources including animal and plant species as well as their habitat for the future.

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Corporate identity

A corporate identity or corporate image is the manner which a corporation, firm or business presents themselves to the public (such as customers and investors as well as employees).

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Curator

A curator (from cura, meaning "to take care") is a manager or overseer.

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Cypress

Cypress is a common name for various coniferous trees or shrubs of northern temperate regions that belong to the family Cupressaceae.

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Documentary film

A documentary film is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education, or maintaining a historical record.

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Drainage basin

A drainage basin is any area of land where precipitation collects and drains off into a common outlet, such as into a river, bay, or other body of water.

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El Vernona Hotel-John Ringling Hotel

The El Vernona Hotel-John Ringling Hotel was a famous hotel in Sarasota, Florida, United States.

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Environmentalism

Environmentalism or environmental rights is a broad philosophy, ideology, and social movement regarding concerns for environmental protection and improvement of the health of the environment, particularly as the measure for this health seeks to incorporate the impact of changes to the environment on humans, animals, plants and non-living matter.

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Florida Forever

Florida Forever is a land conservation program in Florida.

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Fortune 500

The Fortune 500 is an annual list compiled and published by Fortune magazine that ranks 500 of the largest United States corporations by total revenue for their respective fiscal years.

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Framing (construction)

Framing, in construction, is the fitting together of pieces to give a structure support and shape.

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Friends of Seagate Inc.

Friends of Seagate Inc. was founded in the late 1980s by Kafi Benz as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in Sarasota, Florida.

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Gainor Roberts

Gainor Roberts (born September 14, 1941) is an American artist known for still life and landscape paintings that explore color, forms and symbolism.

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Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge

Ethel Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge (April 3, 1882 – August 13, 1973) was the youngest child of William Avery Rockefeller Jr. and Almira Geraldine Goodsell Rockefeller.

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Ghostwriter

A ghostwriter is hired to write literary or journalistic works, speeches, or other texts that are officially credited to another person as the author.

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Graphic design

Graphic design is the process of visual communication and problem-solving through the use of typography, photography and illustration.

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Graphic designer

A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography, or motion graphics to create a piece of design.

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Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge

The Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge is located in Morris County, New Jersey.

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Habitat

In ecology, a habitat is the type of natural environment in which a particular species of organism lives.

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Historic preservation

Historic preservation (US), heritage preservation or heritage conservation (UK), is an endeavour that seeks to preserve, conserve and protect buildings, objects, landscapes or other artifacts of historical significance.

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Jane Holtz Kay

Jane Holtz Kay (born Jane Holtz; July 7, 1938, Boston – died November 4, 2012) was an American urban design and architecture critic.

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Jim Gary

Jim Gary (March 17, 1939 – January 14, 2006) was an American sculptor popularly known for his large, colorful creations of dinosaurs made from discarded automobile parts.

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Jonathan Talbot

Jonathan Talbot, (born November 14, 1939) is an American collage artist, painter, and printmaker.

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Lake Underwood

Lake Underwood (July 4, 1926 – September 12, 2008) was an American entrepreneur who competed as a champion in the racing of prototype automobiles and motorcycles.

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List of art media

Art media is the material used by an artist, composer or designer to create a work of art.

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Litton Industries

Named after inventor Charles Litton, Sr., Litton Industries was a large defense contractor in the United States, bought by the Northrop Grumman Corporation in 2001.

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Local government in the United States

Local government in the United States refers to governmental jurisdictions below the level of the state.

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Macy's, Inc.

Macy's, Inc. (originally Federated Department Stores, Inc.) is an American holding company; it was founded by Xavier Warren in 1929.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace.

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Marcellus Hartley Dodge Sr.

Marcellus Hartley Dodge Sr. (February 28, 1881 – December 25, 1963) was the chairman of the board of Remington Arms Company and a member of the family associated with the Phelps Dodge Corporation.

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Medication

A medication (also referred to as medicine, pharmaceutical drug, or simply drug) is a drug used to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent disease.

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Mendham Borough, New Jersey

Mendham Borough is a borough in Morris County, New Jersey, in the United States.

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Metropolitan planning organization

A metropolitan planning organization (MPO) is a federally mandated and federally funded transportation policy-making organization in the United States that is made up of representatives from local government and governmental transportation authorities.

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Morristown, New Jersey

Morristown is a town and county seat of Morris County, New Jersey, United States.

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National Geographic

National Geographic (formerly the National Geographic Magazine and branded also as NAT GEO or) is the official magazine of the National Geographic Society.

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National Natural Landmark

The National Natural Landmarks (NNL) Program recognizes and encourages the conservation of outstanding examples of the natural history of the United States.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance.

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Natural history

Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms including animals, fungi and plants in their environment; leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study.

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New College of Florida

New College of Florida is a public liberal arts honors college located in Sarasota, Florida, United States.

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Newark Evening News

The Newark Evening News was an American newspaper published in Newark, New Jersey.

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Newark Liberty International Airport

Newark Liberty International Airport, originally Newark Metropolitan Airport and later Newark International Airport, is the primary airport serving the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Novartis

Novartis International AG is a Swiss multinational pharmaceutical company based in Basel, Switzerland.

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Nuclear Regulatory Commission

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is an independent agency of the United States government tasked with protecting public health and safety related to nuclear energy.

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Owen Burns

Owen Burns (October 31, 1869 - August 22, 1937) was born in Fredericktown in Cecil County on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, commonly known as Auguste Renoir (25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919), was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style.

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Plat

In the United States, a plat (plan or cadastral map) is a map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land.

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Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) is a joint venture between the United States, New York and New Jersey, established in 1921 through an interstate compact authorized by the United States Congress.

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Powel Crosley Jr.

Powel Crosley Jr. (September 18, 1886 – March 28, 1961) was an American inventor, industrialist, and entrepreneur.

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Real estate development

Real estate development, or property development, is a business process, encompassing activities that range from the renovation and re-lease of existing buildings to the purchase of raw land and the sale of developed land or parcels to others.

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Regional planning

Regional planning deals with the efficient placement of land-use activities, infrastructure, and settlement growth across a larger area of land than an individual city or town.

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Regulatory agency

A regulatory agency (also regulatory authority, regulatory body or regulator) is a public authority or government agency responsible for exercising autonomous authority over some area of human activity in a regulatory or supervisory capacity.

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Robert Campeau

Robert Joseph Antoine Campeau (August 3, 1923 June 12, 2017) was a Canadian financier and real estate developer, who engineered the largest retailing bankruptcy at the time in U.S. history.

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Roundabout

A roundabout, also called a traffic circle, road circle, rotary, rotunda or island, is a type of circular intersection or junction in which road traffic flows almost continuously in one direction around a central island.

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Ruskin, Florida

Ruskin is an unincorporated census-designated place in Hillsborough County, Florida, United States.

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Sarasota Chalk Festival

Sarasota Chalk Festival is an American cultural event of public art that celebrates a performing art form of pavement art also known as Italian street painting.

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Sarasota County, Florida

Sarasota County is a county located in the U.S. state of Florida.

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Sarasota Herald-Tribune

The Sarasota Herald-Tribune is a daily newspaper located in Sarasota, Florida, founded in 1925 as the Sarasota Herald.

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Sarasota School of Architecture

The Sarasota School of Architecture, sometimes called Sarasota Modern, is a regional style of post-war architecture that emerged on Florida's Central West Coast, in and around the city of Sarasota, Florida.

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Sarasota, Florida

Sarasota is a city in Sarasota County on the southwestern coast of the U.S. state of Florida.

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Sculptors Guild

Sculptors Guild, a society of sculptors who banded together to promote public interest in contemporary sculpture, was founded in 1937.

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Seagate (Manatee County, Florida)

Seagate, also known as the Bay Club, is located along Sarasota Bay in Manatee County, Florida, and was the former winter estate of Powel Crosley Jr., a noted Cincinnati, Ohio, industrialist and entrepreneur.

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Social entrepreneurship

Social entrepreneurship is the use of start-up companies and other entrepreneurs to develop, fund and implement solutions to social, cultural, or environmental issues.

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Stewart Udall

Stewart Lee Udall (January 31, 1920 – March 20, 2010) was an American politician and later, a federal government official.

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Sun City Center, Florida

Sun City Center is an unincorporated census-designated place in southern Hillsborough County, Florida, United States.

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Tallahassee Museum

The Tallahassee Museum is a privately funded, non-profit corporation in Tallahassee, Florida.

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Tamiami Trail

The Tamiami Trail is the southernmost of U.S. Highway 41 (US 41) from Florida State Road 60 (SR 60) in Tampa to US 1 in Miami.

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The Arts Map

The Arts Map was an international on-line resource to locate and identify artists and their studios, as well as galleries, art schools, museums, performing arts facilities, and related associations, service organizations, and businesses around the world, which are related to the arts.

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The Bradenton Times

The Bradenton Times is an online newspaper founded and continuously published on the Internet from Bradenton, Florida.

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University of South Florida

The University of South Florida, also known as USF, is an American metropolitan public research university in Tampa, Florida, United States.

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Urban planning

Urban planning is a technical and political process concerned with the development and design of land use in an urban environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportation, communications, and distribution networks.

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Watchung Mountains

The Watchung Mountains (once called the Blue Hills) are a group of three long low ridges of volcanic origin, between high, lying parallel to each other in northern New Jersey in the United States.

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Watercolor painting

Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also aquarelle (French, diminutive of Latin aqua "water"), is a painting method in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-based solution.

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Wetland

A wetland is a land area that is saturated with water, either permanently or seasonally, such that it takes on the characteristics of a distinct ecosystem.

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References

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