Tagged with Sprawl 
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The assumption of inconvenience 0
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago Early this week, I noticed a number of my favorite bloggers linking to a Elisabeth Rosenthal essay at Environment 360, on the mysterious greenness of European nations. The average American, as it happens, produces about twice as much carbon dioxide each year as your typical resident of Western Europe. -
Nuke it
Lamar Alexander loves the earth too much to support solar and wind 12
Posted 2 months ago
One of the few Congressional Republicans who talks about the need to address climate change makes an interesting argument against wind and solar energy. It's a bogus argument, but still interesting.
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from the sacred to the profane
Wal-Mart’s history of destroying sacred sites 1
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
A re-consecration ceremony was held this past weekend at a damaged Indian mound in Oxford, Ala.
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It's sprawl over?
Alabama city backing away from destruction of ancient Indian mound? 2
Posted 2 months, 4 weeks agoFollowing 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.
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Laws of physics were made to be broken
Competition dreams up new ways to harass suburbanites 1
Posted 3 months agoDwell 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.
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Sprawling Over the Past
Alabama city destroying ancient Indian mound for Sam’s Club 4
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
City leaders in Oxford, Ala. have approved the destruction of a 1,500-year-old Native American ceremonial mound and are using the dirt as fill for a new Sam's Club, a retail warehouse store operated by Wal-Mart.
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a dirty, hermaphrodite-fish-filled river runs through it
Help for the hurting Potomac 2
Posted 4 months ago
Washington, D.C. residents are currently banned from swimming in the Potomac, the river that cradles the nation's capital and feeds into the Chesapeake Bay.
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Transportation policy and the working married woman 6
Posted 9 months, 3 weeks ago -
Unnaturalism
Images of an evolving world by artist Don Simon 12
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New book offers a prescription for 21st century suburbia 0
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Phoenix: What happens when a city built on growth begins to shrink? 3
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Massive flooding in western Washington linked to man-made causes 3
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Tolls reduce congestion, but they price people off the roadway 4
Posted 1 year ago -
How design must change in a warming, oil-scarce world 0
Posted 1 year ago -
Who will bail out the McMansion developers? 2
Posted 1 year, 1 month ago -
Against Sprawl Odds
New California law aims to cut CO2 emissions by discouraging sprawl 0
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Why the party that wrecked America can’t fix it 5
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Let’s hear it for floor area ratio 5
Posted 1 year, 2 months ago -
The Golden-State Touch
California bill aims to curb sprawl 3
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Brownstein on land use 12
Posted 1 year, 3 months ago