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• The issue is not growth or no growth, but a better world

  Growing a better world 5

  Posted 1 week, 3 days ago by Gar Lipow

  Questioning growth has been the obsessive focus of many for decades. Questioners make important points. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has been, at best, a very rough proxy for wellbeing, often not even that. For this and other reasons many liberals, progressives, and leftists consider a "steady state economy" part of building a good society.  For all that critics of growth get right, they focus in the end on the wrong thing, on growth rather than waste. Read More

• Your train is running late

  Phoenix’s light rail project sparks journalism start-up 1

  Posted 2 weeks ago

  Last year, Adam Klawonn started sketching out the plan that, this week, landed him a $95,000 Knight News Challenge grant: a news service devoted entirely to Phoenix's six-month-old light rail system. Its working title is Daily Phoenix. Read More

• Radiant Cities: Driving It Home

  One man’s plan to re-create suburbia, sans cars 1

  Posted 2 weeks ago by Lisa Selin Davis

  If Sherman Lewis has his way, he and 950 other homeowners will soon be living in a car-free California paradise. But can he shift his vision into high gear, or will it stall out? Read More

• Welcome to the JP Green House

  In which we chronicle the creation of a groundbreaking eco-home 5

  Posted 2 weeks, 1 day ago by Katharine Wroth

  When the JP Green House is finished, it will be an eco-home like no other -- but there's a long way to go before that happens. Follow the adventures of Grist contributor Ken Ward and his family this summer, as they work to make their zero-carbon dream a reality. Read More

• Recycling a House

  How we found 133 Bourne St., and how we almost lost it 3

  Posted 2 weeks, 1 day ago by Andrée Zaleska

  Andrée Zaleska explains how she and Ken Ward bought the JP Green House just as the real-estate bubble was bursting, how their own bubble burst not long after, and how they got back on their feet. Read More

• Coming Home: Chronicling the (re)creation of the JP Green House 0

  Posted 2 weeks, 1 day ago by Katharine Wroth

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• Love in a time of cataclysm

  Fighting climate chaos with a hammer and a heart 4

  Posted 2 weeks, 1 day ago by Ken Ward

  Activist Ken Ward finds that his emotional responses to the climate crisis vary wildly, from despair to hope to anger. But one feeling remains constant: his love for partner Andrée and their JP Green House undertaking. He explains -- and invites others to share their experiences. Read More

• More riding tips and evolutionary insights 0

  Posted 2 weeks, 2 days ago by Biodiversivist

  Got some more riding tips to share. I've learned that nothing catches people's attention like a hand wave. It has been hypothesized that our brains have literally evolved the ability to detect hand waves against a cluttered background. I always wave at drivers before crossing in front of them. Try it. They can't seem to ignore you no matter how much they would like to. Read More

• Ray (and Shaun and Lisa) of Hope

  Feds get cozy for sustainable communities 3

  Posted 2 weeks, 3 days ago by Katharine Wroth

  A new partnership will promote affordable housing, public transit, and walkable neighborhoods. Pinch us, we're dreaming. Read More

• Point A to Point Whee!

  The best U.S. transit systems you never knew existed 15

  Posted 3 weeks ago

  Certain cities are public transit all-stars: New York, San Francisco, D.C. But what about the rest of the country? As cities rethink how their residents get around, we take a look at transit innovations gaining speed in unexpected places. Read More

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