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Rolling On As Corps series ends, big questions remain about the future of the Mississippi	Emily Gertz	21 Mar 2008	Grist Feature
There are 8 million stories in the Mississippi Basin, and this week we've told only a few. As lead editor of this Army Corps series, I've been immersed for the last few months in all things Mississippi River. Coming out the other side, I have a few answers, yes, but even more questions to explore. Below is my personal working list of issues that -- while perhaps less acknowledged ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Mississippi River, placemaking, politics, special series, wetlands (all these topics)

If Only We Could Afford to Live There San Francisco gets even greener		07 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 3:09 PM on 07 Mar 2008 San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom got jiggy with eco-measures this week. He signed into a law a requirement that the city's taxi fleet be converted to low-emission vehicles by 2011; ordered all city departments to purchase 100 percent recycled paper and reduce overall paper use by 20 percent by 2010; and announced his support for a tidal-energy project in the San Francisco Bay, despite a recent ...
Topics: energy, local politics, news, placemaking, politics, recycling, San Francisco, wave and tidal power (all these topics)

Hee Hee, Bikers in Suits Small-scale bike-share program to come to Capitol Hill		07 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 1:27 PM on 07 Mar 2008 Thirty bicycles will be made available to government employees on Capitol Hill under a pilot bike-share program announced by U.S. Representative Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) at a National Bike Summit Thursday. "You have such a huge concentration of people" on the Hill, he said, "and so much of the errand running doesn't need to fire up an engine." Blumenauer, founder ...
Topics: bikes, Congress, news, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Grey's anatomy Victim of Seattle arsons reaffirms commitment to green building	David Roberts	05 Mar 2008	Gristmill
As Grist readers know -- and are furiously debating -- there were some arsons in Seattle on Monday which have been attributed to shadowy (perhaps mythical) activist group Earth Liberation Front. The following is a letter to Grist from the owner of one of the houses that was destroyed, Grey Lundberg of CMI Homes, Inc: I am writing you today in reference to your recent article "Know Thy ELF: 'Eco-Terrorism' Suspected in Seattle-area Arson." I am the ...
Topics: Earth Liberation Front, grassroots activism, green building, placemaking, politics, Seattle (all these topics)

They Put the Greenpeace and others protest Heathrow Airport expansion		29 Feb 2008	News
"Row" in "Heathrow" Greenpeace and others protest Heathrow Airport expansion Posted at 11:38 AM on 29 Feb 2008 Greenpeace and other eco-activists have been protesting mightily against a planned third runway for London's Heathrow Airport, which would demolish the nearby town of Sipson and, say activists, be completely counter to Britain's ambitious carbon-cutting goals. The airport-expansion plan has brought significant opposition from both politicians and residen ...
Topics: air travel, climate, England, grassroots activism, Greenpeace, London, news, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Governors drink the Kool-Aid State govs embrace the range of 'alternative fuels,' from nukes to clean coal to biofuels	Tom Philpott	27 Feb 2008	Gristmill
The National Governors Association has linked up with 'a team of Wal-Mart energy experts' to 'green the capitols.'That's fantastic -- and I'm sure it will draw well-deserved huzzahs in certain green circles. (It's touching to see Wal-Mart giving back some of what it has been siphoning off in state taxes!) But read a little deeper into the press release, and you see what the National Governors Association means by 'green.' Turns out that when it comes to energy, the go ...
Topics: energy, placemaking, politics, public transportation, state politics, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Urban Legends Cities run into roadblocks in attempts to reduce CO2		08 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 8:21 AM on 08 Feb 2008 Announcing an ambitious plan to reduce a city's greenhouse gases is the easy part; when it comes to putting goals into action, local officials tend to run up against significant roadblocks. To take just a few examples: The subprime mortgage crisis has left taxpayers across the country unable to fund efficiency-minded proposals. Across the country, homeowners' associations have vetoed plans for ho ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, local politics, news, placemaking, politics, urban planning (all these topics)

They Have Spooken New CIA campus goes green		30 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 5:09 PM on 30 Jan 2008 The CIA has apparently been green for years -- yet somehow, nobody managed to find out. But the secret-keepers' Chantilly, Va., campus was just outed as neerg gniog (that's code for "going green"). The new campus is LEED certified and features a green roof, preferred parking for carpoolers, energy-efficient equipment, waterless urinals, and more. We'd tell you more, but then we'd have to kill you. Or kidnap y ...
Topics: green building, news, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

The Policed We Can Do Report warns of new security threats from climate change		24 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 8:24 AM on 24 Jan 2008 Climate change will create a range of new security threats, including millions of displaced climate refugees, according to a new report from Britain's Oxford Research Group. The report forecasts a tumultuous climate-changed future by as early as 2050 where some 200 million climate refugees fleeing environmental disasters in their homelands will try to immigrate to the U.K. and other w ...
Topics: climate, news, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Not in a Bind Mayoral climate-protecting agreement hasn't necessarily translated into action		11 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 12:44 PM on 11 Jan 2008 Mayors across the country have signed onto the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement, a nonbinding initiative encouraging city leaders to meet or beat the greenhouse-gas reductions outlined in the U.S.-shunned Kyoto Protocol. So about that nonbinding part: While some city officials have taken concrete steps to reduce emissions, others haven't followed through at all. ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, local politics, news, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Mississippi Keen Three river cities reimagine their waterfronts, and themselves	Katharine Wroth	20 Dec 2007	Grist Feature
It was dark when we first crossed the Mississippi, and we caught only a glimpse of its swirling mass beneath us. The next day was gray and windy, and the dark mass had turned into a steely, uninviting barrier. The day after that was cloudless and blue -- and the suddenly friendly river was too. Sarah van Schagen and I had only just begun our weeklong reporting trip, but already we'd ...
Topics: grassroots activism, Mississippi River, placemaking, politics, special series, urban planning (all these topics)

The Great Carnac I ain't Assessing my predictions from last year	David Roberts	17 Dec 2007	Gristmill
At the end of last year, I made 20 predictions for 2007. As a pundit in good standing I am, of course, unaccountable for my predictions. (How do you think we all stay employed?) Nonetheless, it's worth looking back and seeing how the predictions panned out, drawing sweeping conclusions from the things I got right while minimizing and excusing the things I got wrong. Let's see how I did! Al Gore will a) win an Oscar, b) announce that he is not running for presid ...
Topics: climate, energy, business, politics, placemaking (all these topics)

What will we look like in 2050? America's climate and energy future	Joseph Romm	03 Dec 2007	Gristmill
This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Bill Becker, Executive Director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. A few weeks ago, one of the presidential candidates' advisors challenged a group of climate leaders to describe America's future. His challenge triggered a flurry of e-mails as we attempted to articulate a vision. We talked about carbon caps and price signals and new investments in R&D. That's fine, the advisor responded, but what it the v ...
Topics: climate, economy, energy, green living, placemaking, politics, United States (all these topics)

Hear some trains a-comin' Public transit will be necessary for CO2 reductions	Jon Rynn	12 Nov 2007	Gristmill
At the end of October, both New Jersey Democratic Senator Frank Lautenberg and, believe it or not, Mississippi Republican Senator Trent Lott, passed their cosponsored bill in the Senate to allocate $1.9 billion per year for six years to expand passenger rail in the U.S. According to Parade magazine (yes, the one that's inserted into Sunday newspapers), the main goal is 'to develop high-speed, short-haul rail corridors modeled on the European city-to-city routes. They could ...
Topics: climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, placemaking, politics, public transportation (all these topics)

Cool things happening at the local level California 'cool cities' are taking the lead on climate change	Rep Jane Harman	08 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Now in her seventh term, Rep. Jane Harman (D-Venice) represents California's 36th Congressional District. Jane Harman. Even sunny skies and pleasant ocean breezes over much of our state can't mask the fact that Californians breathe some of the most polluted air in the nation. California is the world's 12th largest source of carbon dioxide, the chief heat-trapping gas that causes global warming. As dirty as our air is, we are taking the lead nati ...
Topics: air pollution, California, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Transportation and climate get hitched Seattle-area voters tied the knot	Eric de Place	07 Nov 2007	Gristmill
In the Seattle metro region, voters just sank an $18 billion transportation megaproposal that would have built more than 180 lanes miles of highway and 50 miles of light rail. But so far, the mainstream press has missed one of the most important stories of the year. The real story isn't tax fatigue, it's this: perhaps for the first time ever in the U.S., a critical bloc of voters linked transportation choices to climate protection. In the run-up to the vote, a surpr ...
Topics: cars, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, local politics, placemaking, politics, public transportation, Seattle (all these topics)

Maui-Go-Round Hawaii legislature allows Superferry to resume voyages		31 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 3:01 PM on 31 Oct 2007 The Hawaii legislature has approved a bill allowing resumption of voyages by the Hawaii Superferry, halted by court order in August because a state-required environmental-impact assessment had not been completed. The new legislation, backed which is backed by Gov. Linda Lingle (R), will allow the ferry to make its Oahu-to-Maui and Oahu-to-Kauai treks while the assessment is being made. The ferr ...
Topics: Hawaii, legislation, news, placemaking, politics, public transportation, state politics (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
Recently Nordhaus and Shellenberger (N&S) posted on Gristmill, wrote in The New Republic, and published a book, all with the aim of offering a better alternative to the mainstream environmental agenda. In my estimation, they made three important points: Americans would respond to a positive vision of the future; global warming can only be solved if, in addition to regulatory policies, we embark on a program of public investment; and the public is quite open to the idea ...
Topics: business, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

PARK(ing) Day Parking lots transform into parks for one day	Adam Browning	21 Sep 2007	Gristmill
There are two kinds of public demonstrations. Those that attract people to the cause and demonstrate new possibilities, and those that just piss people off and make enemies out of potential friends. Here's a beautiful example of the former. 'Parking' can either mean leaving an expensive hunk of climate-changing steel to cool on greasy asphalt, or it can mean sitting on the grass with friends, drinking wine in the fresh, clean air. These guys have an elegant way of g ...
Topics: grassroots activism, placemaking, politics, urban planning (all these topics)

Wheeling and Dealing U.S. Transportation Secretary blames bikes for decay of roads and bridges		14 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 2:15 PM on 14 Sep 2007 When one rides a bicycle, one is able to transport oneself from place to place -- thus, one might call a bicycle "transportation." But not if one is U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters. Despite the fact that 10 percent of all U.S. trips to work, school, and store happen on bike or foot, Peters said in August that bike paths "are really not transpor ...
Topics: bikes, Department of Transportation, green living, news, placemaking, politics, 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
Mo' links! Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland Ohio recently passed a renewable portfolio standard that falls prey to the worst pitfalls of that particular policy mechanism: Gov. Ted Strickland wants to require that 25 percent of the electricity sold in Ohio by 2025 come from alternative energies, such as fuel cells, solar panels, windmills, nuclear and hydroplants. Half of that would have to come from renewable energy while the other half would come from n ...
Topics: agriculture, climate, energy, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

A win for buses in L.A. Los Angeles City Council OKs a peak-hour bus-only lane	Eric Mann	31 Aug 2007	Gristmill
An update from me and my colleague Francisca Porchas of the Labor/Community Strategy Center: For the first time in L.A., the car capital of the world, a bus-centered public-transportation system has been given priority over the auto -- a big victory for environmental justice and the reduction of auto-based air toxins and greenhouse gases. On Aug. 15, the Strategy Center and Bus Riders Union secured an important environmental and public-health victory at the Los Angel ...
Topics: environmental justice, placemaking, politics, public transportation (all these topics)

Roads vs. transit Seattle enviros face a Hobson's choice in November	Erica Barnett	23 Aug 2007	Gristmill
This November, those of us who live in and around Seattle will vote on a $17.7 billion transportation package that would expand light rail (by 50 miles) but also include billions for road expansion -- including roads that will primarily serve sprawling developments to Seattle's south and east, making the package a Hobson's choice for environmentalists. (The state legislature tied the roads and transit votes together last year, on the theory that road supporters will on ...
Topics: cars, placemaking, politics, public transportation, Seattle (all these topics)

Policies to reduce and increase driving at the same time Subsidizing drivers needs to end	Jason D Scorse	16 Aug 2007	Gristmill
This article in the NYT highlights the absurdity of current transportation policy. While New York City is trying to get federal funding to help it pay for a congestion pricing and traffic congestion policy, the federal government is, at the same time, handing out large tax breaks to help people reduce the costs of driving to work. It's yet another example of government policy gone awry, badly. The solution isn't sexy, won't get you on TV, and doesn't make for great ...
Topics: cars, New York, New York city, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

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