PAVING PARADISE

Mitchell's playful closing vocals have made the song one of the most identifiable in her repertoire, still receiving significant airplay in Canada.

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In , it was voted No. In , Joni Mitchell released the album Shine , which includes a newly recorded, rearranged version of the song. There are various slight alterations of the lyrics from different versions. Joni Mitchell's original version runs:. They took all the trees And put them in a tree museum Then they charged the people A dollar and a half just to see 'em. Bob Dylan, instead of singing about the "big yellow taxi" that "took away my old man," sings, "A big yellow bulldozer took away the house and land. While Amy Grant retains the taxi, her final reprise of the line about "paved paradise" reads "steam rolled paradise.

The home video also contains an animated music video of Mitchell's song " Both Sides, Now ". The song was the fourth pop radio single from her House of Love album the third in the U. Grant's version featured slightly altered lyrics, which she changed at Joni Mitchell 's request.

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Grant also released a music video for the single, which was aired in the U. Grant also performed the song for her concert album, Time Again In , the Counting Crows covered the song with backing vocals by Vanessa Carlton. It was featured on the soundtrack to the film Two Weeks Notice and is the most successful version of the song to date U.

Billboard Adult Top New releases of the album included it as a track with her added, as with her in the video which was shot on Coney Island , Brooklyn, and in nearby Bensonhurst , although Counting Crows and Carlton neither appeared in the video together nor recorded together. This song became the band's only Top 20 single in the UK , peaking at No. This version slightly changed Mitchell's original lyrics to describe when the eponymous taxi took "my girl" away, instead of Mitchell's "my old man. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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Perhaps unsurprisingly, mothers in newly cemented houses reported less depression and greater life satisfaction.

By , Piso Firme had spread to other states, and , households — about 10 percent of dirt-floor houses in Mexico — had taken part in the program. It helps if the street outside the house gets paved, too — not so much for health reasons as for economic ones. Economists Marco Gonzalez-Navarro and Climent Quintana-Domeque found in a study that paving the street in the town of Acayucan, Mexico, added more than 50 percent to land values and caused a 31 percent rise in rental values.

As a result, households on paved streets were 40 percent more likely to have cars.

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While the concrete mixers are there, why stop at the edge of town? Paving roads in rural areas has enormous human benefits — and not just by putting millions of people to work worldwide. Research by economists Shahidur R. Koolwal, and Zaid Bakht found that paved roads increased agricultural wages by 27 percent and output by more than 30 percent.

It also increased school enrollment by as much as 14 percent. Of course, there are considerable environmental factors to account for: Making and pouring concrete and asphalt is a big source of greenhouse gases, and roads generate traffic, which means more exhaust and carbon emissions. Not to mention that building new roads in a pristine forest is a pretty surefire way to lose that forest to loggers, often without much in the way of economic returns.

Concrete certainly is not a recipe for smart development of the Amazon — and countries would do well to balance new roads with higher carbon taxes. Trending Now Sponsored Links by Taboola.

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