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The Only Thing We Have to Sears Is Sears Itself Clinton, Daley to green Sears Tower, other Chicago landmarks		08 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 8:42 AM on 08 Nov 2007 The tallest building in North America is officially going green, along with a few of its Windy City counterparts. At a green building expo in Chicago yesterday, former President Bill Clinton and eterna-Mayor Richard Daley announced a partnership to retrofit landmarks including the Sears Tower and the Merchandise Mart, the nation's largest commercial cente ...
Topics: Chicago, climate, energy, green building, placemaking (all these topics)

Transportation and climate get hitched Seattle-area voters tied the knot	Eric de Place	07 Nov 2007	Gristmill

Topics: cars, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, local politics, placemaking, politics, public transportation, Seattle (all these topics)

Climate change direct action	David Roberts	07 Nov 2007	Gristmill

Topics: business, climate, coal, energy, placemaking (all these topics)

Growing cooler Can urban planners save the earth?	Eric de Place	31 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, placemaking, sprawl, urban planning (all these topics)

You're Getting Warmer, Warmer ... Sprawling homes susceptible to flames in California		24 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 3:27 PM on 24 Oct 2007 The impact of the still-raging California fires on humans and their homes is tragic and lamentable -- but far from unexpected, thanks to homeowners' tendency to sprawl out and nestle right up to the fire line. Some two-thirds of new building in southern California in the past decade was on tinder-dry, fire-susceptible land, says historian Mike Davis. "You might as well be ...
Topics: California, climate, climate change impacts, news, placemaking, severe weather, sprawl (all these topics)

This urban life Even the greenest suburbs can't touch low urban emission rates	Ryan Avent	21 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, placemaking, sprawl, urban planning (all these topics)

Suburban legend Widening roads does not, in fact, reduce emissions	Clark Williams-Derry	13 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, placemaking, urban planning (all these topics)

Moving Stricture Corps may buy out coastal Miss. towns, encourage residents to move inland		02 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 3:13 PM on 02 Oct 2007 The Army Corps of Engineers is seeking support from three coastal Mississippi counties for a proposal to buy out 17,000 homes and encourage residents to move inland. The Corps generally reserves buyouts for areas prone to river flooding; the new proposal is an indication that the U.S. may be seriously considering the risk of sea-level rise, coastal erosion, and stronger hu ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, climate, climate change impacts, Mississippi, news, placemaking, politics, urban planning (all these topics)

Putting your inner political superego on hold A utopian realist agenda	Jon Rynn	01 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: business, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Sprawl and global warming Land-use and development decisions are crucial in the fight against climate change, says new report	David Roberts	22 Sep 2007	Gristmill

Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, placemaking, sprawl, urban planning (all these topics)

Walk It Off Land-use decisions a key factor in emissions reduction, says analysis		21 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 12:36 PM on 21 Sep 2007 How to reduce U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions? Building compact, mixed-use neighborhoods would be just as effective as much-touted policies like boosting fuel economy, cleaning up power plants, and building green, says a new analysis from the Urban Land Institute. The U.S. population is expected to grow 23 percent by 2030; under the sprawl-encouraging status quo, driving is expected ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, placemaking, sprawl, urban planning (all these topics)

Post-Labor Day link dump, the second Exploring the tubes so you don't have to	David Roberts	04 Sep 2007	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, climate, energy, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

How bad is peak oil, really? Would the biosphere care?	Jon Rynn	20 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: biofuels, climate, coal, energy, oil, placemaking, public transportation (all these topics)

Galbraith says what he really thinks Economist goes over to the dark side	biodiversivist	15 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: climate, energy, placemaking, politics, urban planning (all these topics)

Of cars and carbon How the Prius stacks up against other cars	Clark Williams-Derry	02 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: cars, climate, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, placemaking (all these topics)

Alternatives to auto-mobility Necessary	David Roberts	23 Jul 2007	Gristmill

Topics: cars, climate, green building, placemaking, sprawl, urban planning (all these topics)

Go Get 'Em, Plugger Plug-in hybrids would reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, says new study		23 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Go Get 'Em, Plugger Plug-in hybrids would reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, says new study Plug-in hybrid vehicles, long extolled here at Grist HQ, seem always to elicit one question from doubters: Wouldn't running cars on electricity just mean more emissions from power plants? Answer: No! According to a ne ...
Topics: cars, climate, electric vehicles, electricity grid, energy, fuel efficiency, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, hybrids, news, placemaking (all these topics)

Thames Fugit England walloped by historic floods		23 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Thames Fugit England walloped by historic floods It's a "summer of suffering" in England, as severe flooding wreaks havoc across the country. This weekend, floods in the central and southern part of the country left more than 350,000 people without drinking water and forced the evacuation of hundreds from their homes. The worst part, observers say, is that the waters are still rising -- and a ...
Topics: climate, England, news, placemaking, severe weather (all these topics)

New study finds that plug-in hybrids rule in all possible futures Really	David Roberts	20 Jul 2007	Gristmill

Topics: cars, climate, electric vehicles, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, hybrids, placemaking (all these topics)

Post-vacation links Stuff I missed	David Roberts	16 Jul 2007	Gristmill

Topics: business, climate, energy, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

No Rush Hour New York hems and haws over Manhattan congestion fees		16 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
No Rush Hour New York hems and haws over Manhattan congestion fees Today is a make-or-break, do-or-die, fish-or-cut-bait, poo-or-get-off-the-pot, we-wish-we-could-think-of-more-hyphenated-clich�s day for New York, as state legislators, Governor Eliot Spitzer, and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg wrestle over Bloomberg' ...
Topics: climate, health, innovation, New York City, news, placemaking, politics, public transportation, state politics, urban planning (all these topics)

Carbon offsets and tree huggers Trees should play a bigger role	biodiversivist	13 Jul 2007	Gristmill

Topics: carbon offsets, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, placemaking (all these topics)

Sure it's 100 in the shade, but man, nice plane! While planet burns, Boeing scores a PR victory	JMG	10 Jul 2007	Gristmill

Topics: air travel, climate, ecological footprint, green living, music, placemaking, public transportation (all these topics)

Hastings Makes Less Waste? Central Nebraska town wins greenest city in America contest		26 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
Hastings Makes Less Waste? Central Nebraska town wins greenest city in America contest We say "greenest city in America," and you say -- Portland? Seattle? Savannah? Try Hastings, Nebraska. The town of 25,000 beat out some 350 other cities to win a contest sponsored by Yahoo! as part of the portal's "Be a Better Planet" initiative. Yes, we're pretty sure we just got suckered into giving Ya ...
Topics: climate, energy, Nebraska, news, placemaking (all these topics)

Connecting land use and global warming California takes the lead	David Roberts	06 Jun 2007	Gristmill

Topics: California, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, litigation, placemaking (all these topics)

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