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against "sustainability" (the word, not the policy)
Submitted by MLewyn on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 1:45pm(cross-posted with my personal blog)
Literally (i.e. in normal, non-jargon English) “sustainable” means that it is capable of being sustained over time, whether it is good or bad.
But in environmentalist jargon, “sustainable” means “environmentally friendly” or “non-polluting.” ... read more »
Amory Lovins gets all optimistic
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 4:45pmOne would expect that scientist Amory Lovins would be pretty discouraged considering the stall of the Kyoto Accords and the failure of Congress to address climate change. Depressed he's not. In the March-April edition of Foreign Affairs, Lovins happily points to data that must have the oil rich Koch... read more »
A Green River is a Green River
Submitted by Ben Schulman on Fri, 11/04/2011 - 11:05amChicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is marching forward with designs to revitalize the Chicago River for recreational use. As he does, the mayor can look towards other cities worldwide who have undertaken their own river reclamation projects and apply their lessons here. The main question Emanuel needs to be... read more »
Garden Cities: Theory & Practice of Agrarian Urbanism - Book Review
Submitted by josh.oconner on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 10:30amOne of the more familiar tenets of the New Urbanist development paradigm is the use of compact development patterns which utilize high densities as a means to contain suburban development in order to preserve the pastoral and idyllic conditions often destroyed by sprawl. Within this scheme, New Urba... read more »
Sustainable and Resilient Communities - Book Review
Submitted by josh.oconner on Mon, 09/12/2011 - 2:22pmSustainable and Resilient Communities: A Comprehensive Action Plan for Towns, Cities, and Regions (Wiley Series in Sustainable Design)
by Stephen Coyle
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"If we built cities differently, would people drive less?"
Submitted by Ben Schulman on Fri, 09/02/2011 - 11:16amUC-Irvine Professor of Planning, Policy and Design Marlon Boarnet asks the question: "If we built cities differently, would people drive less?
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Cool Planning: LEED-ND in Plain English
Submitted by Mary Vogel on Tue, 07/05/2011 - 5:16pmIn giving some advice on LEED-ND on Pro-Urb, John Anderson once wrote "LEED-ND is a reasonable (but in my view excruciating) way to go." He suggested other paths to get to a similar place with "less brain damage."
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Bill McKibben Speaks at Power Shift 2011
Submitted by Ben Schulman on Tue, 04/19/2011 - 9:42amThe good folks at e350.org have shared the following video from environmentalist Bill McKibben, speaking at the recent Power Shift 2011conference in Washington D.C.
Enjoy highlights such as "The radicals are the people are the people who are fundamentally altering the composition of the atmosphere. ... read more »
Vibrant Cities, Urban Forests
Submitted by Ben Schulman on Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:05amWhen most people hear the phrase "urban forest," images of places like New York's Central Park or San Francisco's Golden Gate Park come to mind. Those great green places are indeed part of the urban forest fabric, but equally important to a city is the way it treats its everyday spaces with green in... read more »
Making the Case for Urban Agriculture
Submitted by Ben Schulman on Thu, 03/31/2011 - 10:41amThe following article is a contribution from K. Rashid Nuri, the founder of the Truly Living Well Center for Natural Urban Agriculture in Atlanta.
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