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Critical List: Shell spills oil in the Arctic; the Northwest Passage opens
A Shell oil platform in the Arctic is leaking oil. The company won't say how much but will say that the spill is under control.
The Interior Department is looking into treatment of Arctic scientist Charles Monnett, who is under investigation for his work on polar bears.
Why real world fuel efficiency is so much lower than fuel efficiency standards. -
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How to tell if your city is going places
Here's a handy infographic, from the Project for Public Spaces, to help you distinguish cities that are going places from cities that are going nowhere. What's your retail shopping like? Transportation? Public spaces? (Or publc spaces; even handy infographics sometimes have typos, and this one coulda been a lot worse.)
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Help MIT evaluate people's attitudes about cities
MIT's Media Lab has developed a website called Place Pulse that evaluates your perception of cities and neighborhoods. You choose which of two images from Google Street View looks more unique, or more upper-class, or safer, and Place Pulse collates everyone's votes in a way that will hopefully be useful for urban planning. And for […]
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Critical List: Bachmann goes after Pawlenty on cap-and-trade; a bubble shield for wind turbines
At last night's Republican debate, Michelle Bachmann tried to stake Tim Pawlenty on his support for cap-and-trade.
The EPA wised up and banned DuPont from selling Imprelis, the herbicide that was killing trees.
San Francisco could require businesses to let bikers bring their ride inside. -
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Let's make urban revitalization greener, greater, and more inclusive
Improving the environment, economy, and social equity in distressed neighborhoods is possible if the right players are involved.
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When 'starchitects' build art you can't escape
Work-of-art buildings by Frank Gehry or I.M. Pei often take prominent roles in cities across the globe -- but they fail at creating a sense of place
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Critical List: Shipping industry objects to E.U. emissions scheme; when horses act like squirrels
Like the airline industry, the shipping industry objects to the E.U.'s decisions to include it in a emissions trading system.
Will the federal government be spending less on disaster response in the future? Somehow “let ‘em drown” doesn’t seem like the best possible debt reduction plan.
Australia's carbon tax, which was so hotly disputed that people were sending climate scientists death threats, would apply to just 400 of the country's top polluters.
Hydro turbines are going into the Puget Sound by late summer 2013. -
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No vacancy: Empty lots are full of promise
Vacant lots are the scourge of cities around the world, but they offer acres of unfulfilled potential for urban renewal.
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Heat cycles: how D.C. cyclists rode out the hottest July on record [VIDEO]
Cyclists in Washington, D.C. talk about how to keep a heat wave from breaking your bike-commuting habit.
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Coolest bike commute ever
I can't see this type of ad flying in the U.S., where there's already some perception of bicyclists as scofflaws. But in the Netherlands, bike commuting is so commonplace that the Dutch Cycling Association can shake up its image with a super-hot besuited dude doing BMX stunts.
