Another blog that’s recently become required reading for me: Mode Shift, a blog on urban sustainability from Keith Schneider, founder of the Michigan Land Use Institute.

Yesterday brought a somewhat surprising post on big plans afoot to make Knoxville, Tenn. (among other places) a model of sustainable, healthy living. Y’all may or may not know that I was born in Knoxville, and went to college close to there, and I’m here to tell you that it’s the last place I would ever think would get on the sustainable bandwagon. Goes to show how much things have changed, I guess …