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#CNU17 Selling the Green Urban Advantage - Hard Truths About Getting the Word Out
Submitted by Ruth Walker on Fri, 06/12/2009 - 6:33pmNew Urbanists are going to have to be part of the effort to shrink America's carbon footprint, reduce VMT, and hold the line on climate change. But they're going to have to do it without talking about carbon, VMT, or climate change.
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Selling The Green Urban Advantage
Submitted by Katherine Gregor on Fri, 06/12/2009 - 3:27pmHere's the condensed takeaway of this #CNU17 session: If CNU wants to have an impact on climate change, it needs to communicate with the public in something other than wonk-planner-insider speak.
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#cnu17 Lizz Plater-Zyberk on Coping With Climate Change
Submitted by Ruth Walker on Thu, 06/11/2009 - 4:37pmThe climate change discussion always makes Lizz Plater-Zyberk think of two different aphorisms, she said Wednesday during the DPZ pre-Congress workshop on "Settlements for the 21st Century."
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Environmental-Minded Limits on Growth Can Actually Fuel Climate Change
Submitted by sberner on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 1:27pmIn 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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Write Your Senator Today on the Lieberman-Warner Bill!
Submitted by norabeck on Thu, 06/05/2008 - 10:46amAs the senate continues debate on the Lieberman-Warner Bill today, please consider sending a message to your Senator in support of the bill, but also urge them to increase the proport
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Canons for Sustainable Architecture and Urbanism on line at cnu.org/canons
Submitted by HDittmar on Sat, 03/29/2008 - 6:01pmElizabeth 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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Going green? Debate shifting from what you drive to how much
Submitted by paytonc on Tue, 06/26/2007 - 4:53pmThe 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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2030 Planning Challenge
Submitted by paytonc on Thu, 04/12/2007 - 1:37pmI attended a speech last night by Edward Mazria, who's generated a whole lot of buzz within the architecture community with his 2030 Challenge:
http://www.architecture2030.org/
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How Urbanism Slows Global Warming
Submitted by Filmanowicz on Wed, 04/04/2007 - 11:53amSure, hybrid cars and other energy-efficient vehicles are part of the solution to global warming and oil dependency, but how much people drive is as important as what people drive.
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