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Headline	Author	Published	Section
A Moment in the Sun How three Southeast cities are changing		14 May 2008	Grist Feature
For more on Southeast cities, see our full feature on sustainability initiatives underway in Atlanta. With rapid population growth and increased climate vulnerability, the Southeastern U.S. would seem a prime place for sustainability initiatives. But the area has been slow to cotton on to the greening trend. We chalk it up to the South's shade-shifting toward red in the last fifty years -- aligning with a party that was, unt ...
Topics: climate, Florida, green building, placemaking, Smartish Cities, special series, Tennessee, urban planning, Virginia (all these topics)

Hope for a Desert Delinquent What Phoenix, the poster child for environmental ills, is doing right	Lisa Selin Davis	13 May 2008	Grist Feature
Can Phoenix remake its desert-gobbling ways? In order for Phoenix to truly be a green city, it would have to be brown. Or not brown, exactly, but the sandy shade of the mountains that surround it: the jagged peaks and parched hills that enclose the Valley of the Sun. These days, though, Phoenix is a less-natural shade of brown; a ring of smoggy pollution known locall ...
Topics: Arizona, climate, green building, placemaking, Smartish Cities, special series, urban planning (all these topics)

Urban Index Fast facts about cities, climate change, and sustainability		12 May 2008	Grist Feature
Less than 1: Percent of the earth's surface covered by cities (1) 75: Percent of global energy consumed by cities (2) 80: Percent of global greenhouse-gas emissions contributed by cities (1) 6.7 billion: World population in 2007 (3) 50: Percent of world population expected to live in urban areas by the end of 2008 (3) 70: Percent of world population expected to live in urban areas by 2050 (3) 840: Mayors who have ...
Topics: climate, green building, placemaking, Smartish Cities, special series, urban planning (all these topics)

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