Climate Cities
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How can we prepare for climate change without screwing poor people?
Urban adaptation plans are ramping up. It would be nice if the interests of poor and minority communities didn't get trampled in the process.
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San Francisco plans expensive ‘managed retreat’ from rising seas
It's an expensive plan, but rerouting a highway before it's flooded could end up saving a boatload of money in the end.
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GOP could reach out to cities, if not for the elephant in the room
Harvard economist Ed Glaeser argues that Republicans should mend fences with American cities -- and that city folk are natural GOPers. Dude clearly doesn’t know many city folk.
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We kinda never want to get on the subway again after reading this horror story
D.C.'s WMATA did when it left hundreds of passengers stranded underground for hours after a track fire stopped service.
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China’s pollution reaches Japan. Next stop: California
The record levels of soot pollution are making their way around the world, as air pollution tends to do.
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Super Bowl power outage somehow Obama’s fault, apparently
Seems the battle over energy will outlive the 2012 campaign.
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy and bicycling: How do we build a coalition for bike justice?
Lessons from the great civil rights leader on building human infrastructure to connect our divided communities.
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Explosion at headquarters of Mexico’s state-owned oil company kills 32 [UPDATED]
The cause of the blast isn't clear, but it's just the latest in a long string of deadly accidents plaguing Pemex.
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Cyclists are the happiest of us all
A new study finds that cyclists are almost three times happier than solo car commuters.
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U.S. ends record streak of days without tornado fatalities
One reason the no-fatality record stood so long -- 220 days -- was the unusually hot and dry weather of 2012, which stifled tornado activity.
