March 2012
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February 2012
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“… between 2000 and 2009, U.S. transportation and housing costs increased...”
– A paragraph from the Atlantic Cities article, ‘How More Expensive Housing Can Actually Cost You Less’, which highlights the growing economic benefits of living in walkable/ “location efficient” neighborhoods.
The website for the ‘Housing and Transportation...
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Connections: Food Prices, Income & Climate Change →
From The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Climate Progress:
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Food in Cities: Seattle neighborhood creates "the... →
From Crosscut:
Sandwiched between 15th Ave. S. and the play fields at the SW edge of Jefferson Park in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Seattle are seven acres of lonely, sloping lawn that have sat idly in the hands of Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) for the better part of a century. At least until this spring, when the land that has only ever known the whirring steel of city mowers will begin a...
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Urban Agriculture: 18 Story Vertical Farm Being... →
From CleanTechnica:
Here’s a pretty cool urban farming solution—a Plantagon greenhouse for urban farming. Construction on the first one broke ground in Sweden last week. This unique vertical-farming greenhouse will also be “[part of] an international Centre of Excellence for Urban Agriculture, a demo-plant for Swedish clean-tech and a climate-smart way to use excess heating and CO2 from...
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NOAA Study: Solar, wind hold promise to replace... →
From The Vancouver Sun:
Large-scale green energy systems can affordably replace fossil fuel as the world’s primary source of electricity within 20 years, new research from the United States weather office suggests.
… a director with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said Friday in Vancouver that wind and solar could supply 70 per cent of electricity...
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STREAMING NOW: Climate Scientist & Nobel Laureate... →
Climate scientist and Nobel Laureate Michael E. Mann – author of the IPCC’s “Hockey Stick” Report that sparked a bitter controversy between scientists and science deniers.
Hear the real story of the science and politics behind this controversy – and of the campaign to deny the reality of global climate change.
The Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions & David Suzuki Foundation are...
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“… the think tanks and institutes that deny the reality or severity of...”
– A healthy bite of Naomi Oreskes‘ recent piece in the Los Angeles Times, ‘The Verdict is in on Climate Change’. Oreskes is a science historian, professor at the University of California San Diego, and author (‘Merchants of Doubt’). If you’re interested, you can...
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Climate Denial: Leak Exposes How U.S. Think Tank... →
From The Guardian:
The inner workings of a libertarian thinktank working to discredit the established science on climate change have been exposed by a leak of confidential documents detailing its strategy and fundraising networks.
Desmogblog, which broke the story, said it had received the confidential documents from an “insider” at the Heartland Institute, which is based in Chicago....
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“The melt-off from the world’s ice sheets, ice caps and glaciers over eight...”
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A quote from the LiveScience article, ‘NASA Satellites Show How Our Icy World Is Melting’. It profiles a new study that points out that, “The Earth is losing an incredible amount of ice to the oceans annually, and these new results will help us answer important questions in terms...
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'China report spells out "grim" climate change... →
From Reuters:
Global warming threatens China’s march to prosperity by cutting crops, shrinking rivers and unleashing more droughts and floods, says the government’s latest assessment of climate change, projecting big shifts in how the nation feeds itself.
The warnings are carried in the government’s “Second National Assessment Report on Climate Change,” which...
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Study: U.S. green economy lost fewer jobs in... →
From USA Today:
The green economy lost fewer jobs than did the overall economy during the height of the United States’ recent recession, finds a study out today on California’s experiences.
The state’s overall economy lost 7% of jobs from January 2009 to January 2010 while its “core green economy” lost 3%, according to the study released by San Francisco-based...
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Building Green: 'Lessons in Sustainability:... →
From the Vancouver Sun:
Since retrofitting buildings to make them sustainable is both more expensive and less effective than building them right in the first place, we create 50- to 100-year consequences when we construct buildings without consideration for sustainability.
Such buildings are leading sources of greenhouse gases, guzzle up our natural resources and are expensive to maintain for...
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Getting Around: Cities, Streets, and 'Shared... →
From The Economist:
For years urban planners have emphasised the needs of the motorist over those of the pedestrian. Thanks partly to greenery, partly to a greater understanding of how pedestrians behave, and partly to concerns about social cohesion, priorities are changing.
London provides two good example of this shift. On February 1st Exhibition Road, a landmark street near many of the...
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“The advent of bike lanes in some American cities may seem like a big step, but...”
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A quote from the New York Times article, ‘The Dutch Way - Bicycles and Fresh Bread’, which highlights the cycling culture in the Netherlands in search of lessons for building more robust cycling cultures in North American cities and towns.
(Photo credit: Amsterdamize)