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In Illinois, rail passengers stand up for trains [VIDEO]
Trains. People love them. And these riders want the government to know it.
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Digital entrepreneurs want to change the way New Yorkers hail a cab
What if the solutions to America's transportation problems weren't made out of concrete and steel, but out of zeros and ones? What if you could turn car services and taxis into an alternate public transportation system -- by creating an iPhone app?
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Chilean miners rescued, carnage continues on American roads
The world watched as 33 lives were saved. But in the two months since the miners were trapped, more than 6,500 people died in motor vehicle crashes in the United States. Why can't we pay attention to that?
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Redesigning our cities for the dawning age of global freshwater scarcity
The next urban evolution cannot occur unless we reinvent urban water supply and management to meet the demands of the age of freshwater scarcity.
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When the man in the street is your friend
Tom was always there outside the bodega, until he wasn't. And we realized what we had lost.
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In Los Angeles, people come out to play when streets are closed to cars [VIDEO]
"We can take a ... street that's usually filled with cars and congestion, blowing out pollution all around, and clear every car from that street, and create a canvas of what a community can look like when we get the cars off the streets and let people enjoy them in the way we are today." That's the mayor of Los Angeles talking.
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NYC to use hybrid Zipcars for city employees
New York is the latest municipality to try car-sharing for city employees as a strategy for reducing costs and the number of automobiles on the street.
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Farmers and travelers in a tar-sands boomtown
Stratospheric wages draw laborers from around the world to Fort McMurray, Alberta. So how does a booming oil workers' camp become a town?
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The city that said no to garbage
If you want to keep garbage out of landfills, you have to stop thinking about it as garbage. Instead, think of it as resources. This is how Jack Macy thinks. He developed San Francisco’s trailblazing composting program and is currently Zero Waste Coordinator for the city. Here, he shares the city’s secrets to success.
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San Francisco watches its waste line
Most cities send thousands of tons of unwanted flotsam and jetsam to landfills every day. But in San Francisco, garbage is treated like a resource that shouldn't be wasted. And that means formulating a plan to reduce the city's garbage output to zero. Yes, that's right: zero.
