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#CNU18: Some hot stats on health and the built environment
Submitted by Ruth Walker on Thu, 05/20/2010 - 10:24amA cyclist can travel 3.5 miles on the energy of a 350-calorie slice of pizza. A car can go 100 feet.
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Food, Energy, Transportation, Urban Design, Climate for an Eternity without Oil!
Submitted by kimgyr on Sun, 05/16/2010 - 8:48pm2. The specific challenges that we must all address are A) the production of food without petroleum – there were approximately 100 million Americans in 1915 and 21.5 million horses (≅5:1) to help
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Taking revitalization to the next level: Denver’s Living City Block
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Fri, 03/12/2010 - 10:15amThe Living City Block is an ambitious project in Denver’s LoDo (Lower Downtown) to demonstrate the potential of combining environmentally conscious business and economic development with revitalizat
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Energy Consumption: Map Illustrates U.S Energy Use, With a Global Perspective
Submitted by abanks on Thu, 12/10/2009 - 10:28amIn his article entitled ... read more »
Sustainable Urbanism Module by Farr Associates
Submitted by Sandy Sorlien on Tue, 04/07/2009 - 10:45amThe Center for Applied Transect Studies (CATS) announces the availability as freeware of the new Sustainable Urbanism Performance-based SmartCode Module, written by Farr Associates
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What does Waxman mean for us?
Submitted by Jon Davis on Thu, 11/20/2008 - 2:24pmIn a rather big victory for progressives (or liberals, if you prefer), House Democrats Thursday voted 137-122 to make Rep.
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Energy Prices Spurring "Reversal of Desirability"
Submitted by norabeck on Wed, 06/25/2008 - 3:19pmGreat article by Peter Goodman in today's New York Times, "Rethinking the Country
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another environmental cost of sprawl
Submitted by MLewyn on Tue, 05/06/2008 - 1:37pmRandall O’Toole has another piece out on Cato Institute letterhead (http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9325 ) in which he argues that rail transit is less efficient than bus service.
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CNU XV Blog, Part 3: Nextgen 4
Submitted by MLewyn on Wed, 05/16/2007 - 9:50amJust finished seeing most of the morning presentations at CNU Nextgen (by Russell Preston and Faith Cable).
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Environmental Benefits of Mass transit?
Submitted by ddeering on Mon, 03/19/2007 - 12:50pmDoes anyone has some links to some studies which support the environmental benefits of mass transit? I am specifically looking for the energy efficiency, energy consumption, NOx, SOx, CO, of subway a/o trains.
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