urban living
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The Climate Post: Cancun climate talks limp to a compromise at close of hottest year on record
It's official, at least according to NASA: worldwide, 2010 was the hottest year on record.
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Follow-up on Seattle's proposed deep-bore tunnel
A roundup of basic info on the impending decision to build a huge, car-centric mega-tunnel under downtown Seattle.
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Seattle's impending car-centric mega-tunnel: a chat with urbanist Cary Moon
Despite their ostentatious talk on climate, many Pacific Northwest political leaders don't seem to be making the transportation connection. Nowhere is that more evident than in the fight over how to replace Seattle's crumbling Alaskan Way Viaduct, a two-mile-long elevated stretch of State Route 99 running along the city's waterfront. The alternative with the most momentum is a gigantic bored tunnel -- a concrete-heavy, emissions-intensive, multi-billion-dollar piece of old-school highway infrastructure devoted almost entirely to cars, shuttling suburban drivers past the urban core. Sustainable urbanism advocate Cary Moon explains WTF.
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Some tips on city-fixing from people who should know, in New Orleans
Five years after Katrina, the people of New Orleans can be damn proud of the progress they have made. So listen up. They've learned some things about fixing their city that you could stand to know, even if you're not living in a disaster zone. Or if you're living in a place that just looks and feels like a disaster zone -- say, a crumbling Rust Belt city, or a foreclosure-gutted subdivision.
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Does new public transit increase gentrification and lower ridership?
Smart Planet points us to a report from the Dukakis Center at Northeastern University that concludes that new transit can lead to gentrification.
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My Intentional Life: Sharing is Daring
In this My Intentional Life, the gang meets to discuss whether splitting their Community Supported Agriculture share is threatening to split them up.
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Forbes: By 2018, 'one-fifth of urban food will be grown on rooftops and in former parking lots'
Within a decade, will a huge portion of your food come from around the corner? It sure is pretty to think so.
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How does population affect climate change?
Slowing population growth could get us 16-29% of the emissions cuts we need by 2050 to stave off dangerous climate change, according to a new study.
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In the empty lots of Flatbush, students see possibility [VIDEO]
Middle school kids from Brooklyn turn a spotlight on their neighborhood's vacant lots.