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The climate benefits of smart growth may be far greater than we have thought
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Wed, 12/16/2009 - 7:46pm.Those of us who focus on the ability of compact regional and neighborhood development patterns to reduce the need to drive so much – and that has certainly included me – are missing some important
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Tax greenfield development, subsidize infill
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Tue, 06/30/2009 - 1:49pm.I recently ran across a terrific post on T. Caine's sustainability blog Intercon extolling climate change policy to get on the smart growth bandwagon.
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The Geography of Carbon Emissions from Driving, with Maps
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Wed, 05/27/2009 - 3:27pm.The Center for Neighborhood Technology is releasing today a new series of GIS-based maps show
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Railway carriage charm: has high-speed rail’s moment arrived?
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Mon, 03/09/2009 - 7:03pm.With very few exceptions, city-to-city travel in the US by rail is, if available at all, generally slow and inconvenient outside of the Northeast.
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Environmental-Minded Limits on Growth Can Actually Fuel Climate Change
Submitted by sberner on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 6:27pm.In a recent article found in the San Francisco Chronicle, John King discusses the impact that global warming holds on the Bay Area.
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Wall Street Journal on VMT, Energy, Sprawl
Submitted by Joe Menard on Wed, 02/06/2008 - 8:28pm.Wall Street Journal transportation columnist Joseph White just wrote an interesting piece on Vehicle Miles Traveled in America.
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McKibben on Global Warming, and (New) Urbanism
Submitted by mackean on Mon, 10/01/2007 - 5:48am.Bill McKibben's recent reviews from the New York Review of Books suggest New Urbanism's potential role in the fight against global warming.
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Cities Key to Curbing Climate Crisis
Submitted by crandell on Tue, 09/11/2007 - 3:34pm.As New Urbanism grows in popularity and programs like LEED-ND start to take off, more people are paying attention to the natural environmental benefits of urbanism...
The Urban Revival
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Going green? Debate shifting from what you drive to how much
Submitted by paytonc on Tue, 06/26/2007 - 9:53pm.The connections between transportation, energy, global warming, and neighborhoods continue to make inroads into national political discourse, even while the legislative debate on global warming continues to focus on cap-and-trade systems for industry and fuel efficiency standards for automobiles
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CNU XV Blog, Part 15: Environmental Issues
Submitted by MLewyn on Sun, 05/20/2007 - 5:13pm.On Sunday, the last few panelists focused in varying degrees on environmental issues.
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