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Garrison Keillor in the International Herald Tribune: At $5 a gallon, we'll start telling stories again
Submitted by joel.vanderweele on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 7:40pm.In a recent Op-ed in the International Herald Tribune, Garrison Keillor writes: "The fantasy of comfortable vagabondage lies deep within each one of us, though, and once, 30 years ago, driving a GMC m
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California Adopts State-wide Policy to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Submitted by joel.vanderweele on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 7:15pm.James Temple, of the San Francisco Chronicle, writes about one of the first state-level global warming plans to get serious about emission.
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Rising gas prices provide a good start to 2030 Challenge
Submitted by Jon Davis on Tue, 07/01/2008 - 8:41pm.Doug Farr’s 2030 Challenge, issued at CNU XVI just three months ago, requi
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CNU on CNN: Norquist Touts Location Efficiency on "Issue #1"
Submitted by Jon Davis on Fri, 06/27/2008 - 4:14pm.As Americans are rousted from our collective 50-year torpor by ever-rising gasoline prices, newspapers and television stations around the country are finally realizing what we've known for a long t
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May 29, 2008 Philadelphia Inquirer: Fuel prices and ridership up on mass transit.
Submitted by Michael McAteer on Thu, 05/29/2008 - 2:08am.PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER STORY LINK AT BOTTOM OF POST
Chart: Increases in Ridership http://www.philly.com/inquirer/gallery/19304779.html
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More evidence that sprawl means more pollution
Submitted by MLewyn on Fri, 04/11/2008 - 1:21pm.Edward Glaeser of Harvard and Matt Kahn of UCLA have a new study out, showing that sprawling cities really do consume more energy and pollute more. Some of their conclusions:
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Canons for Sustainable Architecture and Urbanism on line at cnu.org/canons
Submitted by HDittmar on Sat, 03/29/2008 - 11:01pm.Elizabeth Moule, Stefanos Polyzoides and I
presented a document at the Green Council that was intended to serve
as a lesser companion to the Charter in the area of green urbanism and
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Sustainability and New Urbanism in the Third World
Submitted by Karja Hansen on Mon, 08/20/2007 - 9:52pm.A recent article on WorldChanging.com brought up the subject of sustainable planning and building in third world regions. The article specifically discusses the October 15 8.0 earthquake in the Ica region of Central Andean Peru. The city of Pisco near the epicenter has reportedly lost 80 percent of... read more »
Urban Land Interview on Green Urbanism
Submitted by HDittmar on Mon, 05/28/2007 - 5:06pm.Urban Land - May 2007 - Feature
“‘Try it, you’ll like it’ is better than ‘Do this even though it hurts because it’s good for the planet.’”
The Green Quotient
Q&A with Hank Dittmar
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From Beaches to Pine Barrens, a Study Puts Values on New Jersey’s Natural Assets NY Times, Monday, May 21
Submitted by Michael McAteer on Mon, 05/21/2007 - 4:51pm.By PAM BELLUCK, NY TIMES MONDAY, MAY 21,2007
The report, by economists commissioned by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, tries to put a dollar value on the state’s natural resources, from the Jersey Shore to the Kittatinny Mountains, to places like, well, Weehawken.
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