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Marketing Sustainable Communities – Survivalists on the Rise
Submitted by Ruth Walker on Thu, 06/11/2009 - 9:37pm."You really need to know who you’re speaking to."
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Looking at the big picture
Submitted by crandell on Wed, 08/29/2007 - 7:13pm.Planners say entire neighborhoods, not individual buildings, key to payoff of green principles
Charlotte Business Journal - July 6, 2007
by Bea Quirk
"One of the basic principles of ecology is that everything is connected -- that no part of the environment exists in a vacuum.
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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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Civic Ecology---Village Green/Green Village
Submitted by rfelsing on Sat, 05/19/2007 - 1:27pm.A cluster of comments emerged as a common theme about simple ways to win support for environmentally-sound projects.
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Water in Jail
Submitted by rfelsing on Sat, 05/19/2007 - 12:08pm.Water in jail.
They call them “detention basins” for a reason.
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A Convenient Remedy for the Inconvenient Truth
Submitted by JNorquist on Thu, 05/17/2007 - 4:00am.The following essay by John Norquist, President and CEO of CNU, appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer on Thursday, May 17, 2007.
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How Urbanism Slows Global Warming, Part 2
Submitted by Filmanowicz on Mon, 04/30/2007 - 8:33pm.In a previous posting, I scratched the surface in describing how traditional, mixed-use urban neighborhoods help slow global warming.
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NU-Tube: Video for Santa Fe Project does a smart job introducing principles and sustainability benefits of New Urbanism
Submitted by Filmanowicz on Sat, 01/13/2007 - 8:04pm.This video isn't your daddy's view of New Urbanism. But amid the quick cuts and other cool effects, it does a nice job of introducing viewers to New Urbanism. Just now breaking ground (and already so pre-sold that it's generating a long waiting list) Oshara appears to be an emerging exemplar of gree... read more »