Climate Cities
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This gingerbread Brooklyn is way too amazing to eat
Think how many people could live in/eat this dense, walkable, edible neighborhood!
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You can now donate to the homeless through a parking meter
People who don't like giving to panhandlers will now be able to give change to the homeless through the more official channel of an old parking meter.
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Forecast for the Northeast by 2070: Much warmer, much rainier winters
Winters in the Northeastern U.S. will have less snow and more rain in the future. As a native, I find this heartbreaking.
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Community health centers rise up from toxic brownfields
New health centers for low-income people are being built on formerly contaminated land -- finally, brownfields redevelopment that helps locals.
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Different breeds of urban agriculture duke it out in Detroit
The Detroit City Council has OK'd a big, millionaire-backed urban forestry project, but will it also support smaller community farms?
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London has been invaded by a giant duck
50-foot seafaring rubber duckies: the hot new mode of transportation.
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For the first time, cities see a drop in childhood obesity
From New York and L.A. to small cities in Nebraska and Alaska, childhood obesity rates are inching downward. The reasons aren't yet known.
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Rural America: Poorer, less populous, less powerful — but now with fracking!
Some rural areas are getting a big economic boost from oil and gas development, but many other areas are still struggling.
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Surrounded by water on three sides, San Francisco fights to keep climate change at bay
Cities are where the real action is at, says Melanie Nutter. The San Francisco sustainability director works with other cities to stave off the worst effects of climate change.
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Holy crap it used to take forever to get anywhere in this country
Six weeks to get from New York to Chicago! And FORGET about L.A.
