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How to turn NIMBYs into YIMBYs
When it comes to development projects in their communities, people want honesty, transparency, and facts.
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Confessions of a recovering engineer
Taking highway standards and applying them to urban and suburban streets costs us thousands of lives every year.
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Ask Umbra's Book Club: What do you want to ask Jonathan Franzen?
Grist will be interviewing author Jonathan Franzen about environmental themes in his novel "Freedom" this week. What should we ask him? Tell us!
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Find out where your city is most walkable with Walk Score's new heat maps
Walk Score rolled out new heat maps for the 2,500 largest American cities, providing a quick way to get a sense of where cities are most walkable.
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The messy side of energy efficiency: finance
If we want to make a dent in household energy efficiency, we will need to move large amounts of private capital.
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Defining success for climate negotiations in Cancun
The key challenge of the Cancun climate talks is to continue the process of constructing a sound foundation for meaningful, long-term global action.
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R20 – A Carbon Rebel Alliance
A long, long time ago…in a galaxy far, far away…a group of states and provinces banded together in frustration that their national governments were held hostage by Big Oil & Coal and had been unable to break free to harness the economic development opportunities presented by renewable energy, alternative fuels, energy efficiency, and carbon markets. […]
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‘Farmageddon' doc tracks the coming food-safety showdown
Will jack-booted thugs from the FDA shut down the alternative food movement? The new documentary Farmageddon seems to think so.
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Moscow's transportation policy makes even Republican plans look okay
Newly elected Republican leaders may be blocking passenger-rail plans in Wisconsin, Ohio and New Jersey and wishing it were the 1950s in Congressional transportation planning, but at least we're doing better than Moscow.
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How do you eat well? Share your 'food rules'
Culture has much to teach us about how to choose, prepare, and eat food. I'm collecting and preserving more of this wisdom before it disappears, in an expanded edition of my last book.
