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Yeah, we said billion

A $4 billion push to make affordable housing green 0
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago By Katharine Wroth Today brings news of a major investment in making affordable housing greener, and an ambitious call for an even bigger national conversion. Find out who's behind it.
Bumper to Bonkers

For public transportation to survive, we all need to ... drive more? 4
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago By Katharine Wroth Could traffic jams convert drivers into subway riders? Are eco-parking garages the key to increasing train use? A look at the inescapable role of the car in our every deliberation, even when that deliberation is how to ditch the car.
Infrared, Schminfrared

4.5 things I learned at my energy audit 8
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago By Katharine Wroth I finally took the plunge after years of blithely telling Grist readers to "get an energy audit" -- so what was it like?
Does Schwarzenegger care more about tea partiers or the planet? 0
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago By Jonathan Zasloff Like any Hollywood actor, and like any politician, Arnold Schwarzenegger likes to talk a good game. And on climate, he talks a lot. He loves to promote inconsequential gab-fests like the Governors Global Summit on Climate Change. But when the rubber hits the road, will he actually, you know, do anything about it? Whether a bill on his desk gets a signature will tell us whether he is real or all puffery.
That smarts

MacArthur genius award winners include climate and ocean researchers 0
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago By Jonathan Hiskes Some of the MacArthur Foundation “genius award” winners are doing work related to climate change. And they now they each have $500 grand, no strings attached.
This 9/11, urban communities remember and serve 0
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago By Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, Rev. Lennox Yearwood
In honor of those who died on 9/11, community groups are holding more than 100 Green the Block service events around the country.
Grow your farmer ...

USDA to unveil “Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food” initiative 2
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago By Ken Meter
As I prepare for five days of announcements next week, when USDA plans to unveil its new "Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food" initiative, the buzz across my desk is about the potential for urban agriculture.
from the sacred to the profane

Wal-Mart’s history of destroying sacred sites 1
Posted 2 months, 4 weeks ago By Sue Sturgis
A re-consecration ceremony was held this past weekend at a damaged Indian mound in Oxford, Ala.
Laws of physics were made to be broken

Competition dreams up new ways to harass suburbanites 1
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago By Adam Stein
Dwell magazine and Inhabitat have teamed up to sponsor a “Reburbia” competition in which designers re-envision suburbia in ways that make environmentalists seem as scary and dingbatty as possible.
It's sprawl over?

Alabama city backing away from destruction of ancient Indian mound? 2
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago By Sue Sturgis
Following local protests and international outcry, the city of Oxford, Ala. appears to be backing away from plans to destroy an ancient and archaeologically significant Indian mound.