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Forbes Reports: "America's Most Fuel-Efficient Neighborhoods"
Submitted by joel.vanderweele on Thu, 07/10/2008 - 10:16amForbes: "With the national average price of gasoline topping $4 a gallon, it's a propitious time to make the case for gas-sipping neighborhoods.
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Environmental Capital: Pricey Gas Drives People to Move
Submitted by sberner on Mon, 07/07/2008 - 10:21amIn this recent article, Keith Johnson from the Wall Street Journal writes about the pricey gas rates and how it has sparked the move of many Americans.
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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 - 2:40pmIn 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 - 2:15pmJames 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 - 3:41pmDoug 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 - 11:14amAs 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 Wed, 05/28/2008 - 9:08pmPHILADELPHIA 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 - 8:21amEdward 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 - 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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Sustainability and New Urbanism in the Third World
Submitted by Karja Hansen on Mon, 08/20/2007 - 4:52pmA 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 »