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Civic Ecology---Village Green/Green Village
Submitted by rfelsing on Sat, 05/19/2007 - 8:27amA 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 - 7:08amWater in jail.
They call them “detention basins” for a reason.
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Imprint anything but Light at New Initiatives Forum
Submitted by Heather Smith on Thu, 05/17/2007 - 10:49pmTom Low kicked off the New Initiatives Forum today with a newly emerging idea that is quickly gaining traction within the movement--Light Imprint New Urbanism or LINU.
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CNU XV Blog, Part 2: birdies
Submitted by MLewyn on Wed, 05/16/2007 - 8:41amI walked from South Philly to the Lowes, and the one noise that really grabbed me was: the birds.
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Green Building and New Development in Seattle Neighborhood
Submitted by Joe Menard on Fri, 05/04/2007 - 11:55amA new two-part E&E story discusses the partnerhsip between the U.S. Green Building Council, Seattle Housing Authority, and New Urbanists to rebuild High Point - a once-blighted Seattle neighborhood. As detailed in part one, High Point's rebuilding efforts include 1,600 green-built houses (now h... read more »
How Urbanism Slows Global Warming, Part 2
Submitted by Filmanowicz on Mon, 04/30/2007 - 3:33pmIn a previous posting, I scratched the surface in describing how traditional, mixed-use urban neighborhoods help slow global warming.
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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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Environmental Benefits of Mass transit?
Submitted by ddeering on Mon, 03/19/2007 - 12:50pmDoes anyone has some links to some studies which support the environmental benefits of mass transit? I am specifically looking for the energy efficiency, energy consumption, NOx, SOx, CO, of subway a/o trains.
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CNU Florida Chapter Meeting Attracts 300
Submitted by crandell on Thu, 01/18/2007 - 11:04pmThe third annual CNU Florida Chapter statewide meeting, Jan. 18-19 at Rollins College, attracted almost 300 new urbanists from across the state.
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