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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Along the Mississippi: Tax thyself Guess what happens when communities cough up cash?	Katharine Wroth	24 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Earlier today, we met with three folks from the Great Rivers Greenway District in St. Louis. Their organization owes its very existence to a voter-approved one-tenth of one cent sales tax that generates $10 million each year. As a result, they've been able to complete about 100 miles of trails and greenways in a 1,216-square-mile area over the last few years, and have plans to create a network of 500 miles more. Not all of their financing comes from the sales tax, bu ...
Topics: Missouri, Mississippi River, Iowa, placemaking, education (all these topics)

Health Class L.A. building schools close to freeways		24 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 11:40 AM on 24 Sep 2007 More than 60,000 students in Los Angeles attend school within 500 feet of a highway, and seven more traffic-spooning campuses are in the works, despite health experts' warnings that such pollution-proximate students are at increased risk of asthma and other illnesses. All of the schools will be built with air-filtration systems, but such systems do not reliably remove the smallest, most dangerous particulate p ...
Topics: air pollution, education, health, Los Angeles, news, placemaking, urban planning (all these topics)

The perfect dorm College residence halls trending toward green ... and not-so-green	Sarah van Schagen	30 Aug 2007	Gristmill
I'm excited about this new trend toward green dorm design and decor, such as the Green Campus Program in California wherein new students can tour a dorm room pimped out with, for example, "hemp towels, organic cotton sheets, a reusable elephant grass shopping basket, and bed frames made of recycled train tracks." But I'm bummed that it's basically negated by another "trend" in college dorms these days: deluxe consumerism of the not-so-eco kin ...
Topics: education, green living, placemaking, shopping (all these topics)

Vehicle of change The Big Green Bus rides again	Sarah van Schagen	10 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Witness the Big Green Bus. Hard to miss, even amid the glaring sun and smog at Bonnaroo. I happened upon the crew of Dartmouth students at the festival last year and got just a few minutes to chat with them. This year, I sought them out on the festival grounds and then met up with them again when they rolled into Seattle last weekend.During their 12,000-mile trek this summer, the Big Green Busriders are stopping at various events and landmarks ranging from a Doobie ...
Topics: biofuels, education, energy, green living, innovation, placemaking, tech (all these topics)

Bright green principles All 21 of them, from Worldchanging	David Roberts	13 Jul 2007	Gristmill
A while back, Worldchanging did a great series of posts on the core principles of a bright green future. I kept meaning to link to it. Now I finally am! Here they are: Principle 1: The Backstory Principle 2: Ecological Footprints and One Planet Thinking Principle 3: Cradle to Cradle and Closing the Loop Principle 4: Life Cycle Analysis, Embodied Energy and Virtual Water Principle 5: Ecosystem Services and Ecological Economics Principle 6: Transp ...
Topics: education, environmental movement, green living, placemaking (all these topics)

Two Green Builders Take Trains Leaving From Different Stations... U.S. schools betting on benefits of going green		29 May 2007	Daily Grist
Two Green Builders Take Trains Leaving From Different Stations... U.S. schools betting on benefits of going green When we were kids, the only thing green about our schools was the vomit-hued paint on the bathroom walls. But times change, and these days, schools across the U.S. are incorporating green features that save money, improve student performance, and help protect the planet. The trend is ...
Topics: education, green building, green living, news, placemaking (all these topics)

Choose You Can Use School choice could be an answer to sprawl	Daniel Akst	06 Oct 2005	Soapbox
Imagine a country -- we'll call it Hobsonia -- that requires all its residents to shop at officially assigned supermarkets based on where they live. Now, Hobsonians care passionately about food, and since the law allows them to move if they wish, citizens decide where to live based largely on where they can buy groceries. Those with money move to the best supermarket districts, which tend to be in affluent a ...
Topics: education, placemaking (all these topics)

The Pledge of Reason Dispatches from a student-run clean-car campaign		23 Aug 2005	Dispatches
The Road to Detroit campaign is run by 11 student organizers from around the U.S., one big, beautiful biodiesel and veggie-oil bus, and many friends and allies. Road to Detroit is a campaign of Energy Action, a student and youth clean-energy and global-warming coalition. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 Tuesday, 23 Aug 2005 DETROIT, Mich. Yesterday evening, the Road to Detroit team of organizers joined up with our brave Drive the Future we ...
Topics: biofuels, cars, Dispatches, education, energy, fuel efficiency, grassroots activism, Michigan, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

What's All the Bus About? Dispatches from a student-run clean-car campaign		22 Aug 2005	Dispatches
The Road to Detroit campaign is run by 11 student organizers from around the U.S., one big, beautiful biodiesel and veggie-oil bus, and many friends and allies. Road to Detroit is a campaign of Energy Action, a student and youth clean-energy and global-warming coalition. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 Monday, 22 Aug 2005 DETROIT, Mich. In the madness of classic cars and signs reading "Burn Out," "Light Her Up," a ...
Topics: biofuels, cars, Dispatches, education, energy, fuel efficiency, grassroots activism, Michigan, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

Mind Over Motor Dispatches from a student-run clean-car campaign		19 Aug 2005	Dispatches
The Road to Detroit campaign is run by 11 student organizers from around the U.S., one big, beautiful biodiesel and veggie-oil bus, and many friends and allies. Road to Detroit is a campaign of Energy Action, a student and youth clean-energy and global-warming coalition. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 Friday, 19 Aug 2005 DETROIT, Mich. We know you know about fuel-efficient cars. You may even own one. Peak oil, the rising price at the pump, an ...
Topics: biofuels, cars, Dispatches, education, energy, fuel efficiency, grassroots activism, Michigan, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

A Few of Your Favorite Things The Grist Inbox Is Brimming With Opinions on Biodiesel, Urinals, More		09 Jan 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: education, energy, green living, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Car Talk		26 Feb 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: education, placemaking (all these topics)

Wheels of Misfortune		20 Feb 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: education, green living, placemaking, US EPA (all these topics)

We've Got Mail		19 Feb 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: Department of Energy, education, Mexico, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

Better, By Design		25 Jul 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: education, green living, placemaking (all these topics)

Katie Car Ick		15 Feb 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: education, green living, placemaking (all these topics)

Something Wild		05 Feb 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: education, New York, placemaking, wildlife (all these topics)

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