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How to give a community a soul
Charming neighborhoods are not magic. They can be developed with smart public policy.
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Katrina and Sandy cost over 2,000 lives. Will we do better next time?
A new project looks back at the superstorms that have ravaged U.S. coasts, and at storms yet to come.
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Vegas tops the list of the country’s worst heat islands
On a real scorcher of a day, the mercury downtown can roar 24 degrees above the temps in the surrounding desert. Other cities are feeling the heat, too.
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Leaving Las Vegas, a city feeling the slow burn of climate change
I came for the apocalypse. I got art instead.
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Joel Kotkin thinks you want to live in Houston. Here’s why you don’t.
Even many of the Americans who want to live in a single-family home would prefer that home to be in walkable neighborhood near transit.
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Killing young black men like Michael Brown is unsustainable in every sense of the word
In a world that is heating and cooling at increasingly uncontrollable rates, we need more black youth learning how to work with sustainable technology, and less of them in jail or dead.
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Public art, environment, history, and the locals all collide in the Anacostia River
Artist Mia Feuer wanted to submerge a gas station in the river, but locals fought back. We unpack all the reasons why.
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5 things I learned from DOJ’s elder statesman on environmental justice
A chance meeting in a Washington, D.C., bookstore turned into an hours-long conversation. Here are the highlights.
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“I Heart NY” mastermind launches catchy climate change logo
To help make climate change awareness stick (and slick), design legend Milton Glaser created a catchy logo.
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A Las Vegas community garden beats the odds
A silver lining to the economic downturn that brought Vegas to its knees: People may be setting down roots.
