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The Way You Move Climate change has it out for transportation infrastructure, says report		11 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 5:08 PM on 11 Mar 2008 Climate change is likely to wreak havoc on U.S. transportation infrastructure, according to a report released Tuesday by the National Research Council. Think bridge joints weakened by too-high temperatures, flooded tunnels, shipping disrupted by heavy storms, roads threatened by erosion, and much, much more! Coastal regions are likely to be especially hard hit, as more and ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, news, placemaking, public transportation, urban planning (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)

Green building certified! Again! New certification planned by safety group	Katharine Wroth	07 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Maybe this all makes more sense to green builders than it does to me, but I see news today of plans to develop another new green-building certification, this one sponsored by the International Code Council. It seems like only yesterday three weeks ago that the National Association of Home Builders launched its own 'education, verification, and certification' program, and of course our pal LEED keeps chugging along. Oh wait, look what happens when you read the who ...
Topics: green building, placemaking, urban planning (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)

Gas up The next generation of infrastructure should help more Americans go carless	Ryan Avent	04 Mar 2008	Gristmill
It appears that oil has reached a new all-time high in real terms. Given that gas prices normally peak during the summer season, the stage could be set for some ugly pump prices this year, although expensive oil may not be the most painful part of the current commodity price boom for consumers (an honor which may go to the exploding cost of grain). With oil so expensive, commuters may wish they had better transportation options. Some of them may even begin to wonder ...
Topics: energy, oil, placemaking, public transportation, urban planning (all these topics)

Starting to Tank Americans using less gasoline		03 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 1:41 PM on 03 Mar 2008 Well, it's finally happened: Americans are starting to use less gasoline. It took a weakened economy and record oil prices -- crude hit an all-time high of $103.95 a barrel Monday -- but in the past six weeks, U.S. gasoline consumption has fallen by an average 1.1 percent from 2007 levels, the most sustained drop in at least 16 years (excepting the dropoff that followed Hurricane Katrina). As Americans move to mitig ...
Topics: energy, green living, news, oil, placemaking, United States (all these topics)

Know Thy ELF 'Eco-terrorism' suspected in Seattle-area arson		03 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 11:18 AM on 03 Mar 2008 Four unoccupied multimillion-dollar homes burned in a Seattle suburb Monday in what officials have reason to believe was eco-related arson. Explosives were found in the homes, and a spray-painted sign out front -- "Built green? Nope black! McMansions in RCDs r not green" -- bore the initials of radical environmental group the Earth Liberation Front. The Woodinville, Wash., homes were built wi ...
Topics: Earth Liberation Front, eco-terrorism, environmental movement, grassroots activism, news, placemaking, Seattle (all these topics)

Go veg ... Hollywood PETA wants Hollywood hills ad space	Sarah van Schagen	29 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Remember when I said the land just west of the iconic "Hollywood" sign was for sale? And then joked about interesting advertising opportunities?Yeah, I wasn't too far off ...PETA officials said they want to erect a large sign of their own to the west of the famed landmark that would spell out "Go Veg" in 45-foot-high letters.Heh. They said "erect."
Topics: vegetarianism and veganism, Los Angeles, placemaking, advertising (all these topics)

Zipcar merges with Flexcar, effs it all up Has the east coast car-sharing company screwed up the west coast car-sharing company?	David Roberts	29 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Late last year, the country's two major car-sharing companies, west-coast Flexcar and its larger east-coast cousin Zipcar, merged and became, um, Zipcar. Flexcar fans were concerned about the effects of the merger. Sadly, Flexcar fangirl Erica Barnett reports that they were decidedly negative: more expensive, fewer cars, less friendly service, etc. Zipcar, what hath thou wrought? Any Gristians have car-sharing experiences to share?
Topics: public transportation, placemaking, cars, business (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)

Progressive energy policy in Bayou City? Carl Pope talks market failures with energy execs at Houston energy conference	Josh Dorner	28 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Today's second panel -- Carl's, on 'conservation and the environment' -- opened with remarks from Houston Mayor Bill White. Despite my earlier comments about the road-crazy Bayou City, Mayor White laid out some items from what appears to be a truly progressive energy agenda for Houston, including making it an international leader in green buildings. Some of his more interesting comments came when White told the story of being one of the staffers that helped ...
Topics: energy, placemaking, green building, Texas (all these topics)

The greenest neighborhood? Sustainable, carbon-neutral community built in Oregon	Joseph Romm	27 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Last week the Center for American Progress began a series called 'It's Easy Being Green,' meant to recognize the steps communities, individuals, and organizations are taking to transform our country's energy use. Last week's column featured a new kind of neighborhood: Pringle Creek Community in Salem, Ore., named the 2007 Green Land Development of the Year by the National Association of Home Builders, may be the greenest neighborhood in the country. It uses 35 sust ...
Topics: green building, Oregon, placemaking (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)

No country for thirsty men In North Carolina's Triangle, a severe drought has leaders stumped	Tom Philpott	26 Feb 2008	Gristmill
North Carolina's Triangle -- Durham, Chapel Hill, and Raleigh -- counts as the state's economic, educational, and political engine. It's also very quickly running out of water, parched by a severe drought.Are the area's leaders doing anything constructive to respond to the situation? So far, the signs aren't encouraging. I've been following the story in the excellent daily Raleigh News & Observer. On Monday, the N&O reported that Raleigh has exactly one agreemen ...
Topics: North Carolina, placemaking, severe weather, water crisis (all these topics)

Licensed to Ride Percentage of 16-year-olds licensed to drive has dropped		25 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 4:52 PM on 25 Feb 2008 The percentage of 16-year-olds with a U.S. driver's license has decreased sharply in the last decade, from 43.8 percent in 1998 to 29.8 percent in 2006. Rising insurance costs, expensive driver education, and an increase in indoor pastimes are more likely to be driving the trend than environmental awareness -- and sure, most yoots still get around in four-wheeled transportation, chaffeured ...
Topics: cars, green living, news, parenting, placemaking (all these topics)

Sing a song of sustainable cities Curitiba's Jaime Lerner on why the car is like your mother-in-law	JMG	25 Feb 2008	Gristmill

Topics: cars, placemaking (all these topics)

Public investment: the counterargument Geek humor	Gar Lipow	22 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Volker Weber provides a strong counterargument to my posts favoring public investment (very funny, if you are a certain kind of geek):
Topics: public transportation, placemaking (all these topics)

It Takes a Village Protests arise over British government's		22 Feb 2008	News
"eco-town" plans Posted at 10:00 AM on 22 Feb 2008 The British government is preparing a shortlist of sites for high-density, carbon-neutral eco-towns, but is coming under consistent protest from villagers who don't want 'em nearby. Many residents living near the proposed sites have concerns that, eco or not, new development will take over agricultural land, increase traffic, and burden local infrastructure. Says Mark Sulliva ...
Topics: England, news, placemaking, urban planning (all these topics)

Deep thought of the day	David Roberts	21 Feb 2008	Gristmill
As rising energy prices and better urban planning push the affluent back to city centers, the poor and working class will be pushed out to the suburbs. Soon, we'll see blight, crime, the drug trade, and other social pathologies where we have been accustomed to seeing the American Dream. 'Inner city' and 'outer suburb' will flip their cultural connotations. It will be confusing.
Topics: placemaking, urban planning (all these topics)

Hour Town Cities worldwide will turn off lights for Earth Hour		20 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 1:27 PM on 20 Feb 2008 Mark your calendar for March 29, when cities around the world will switch off non-critical lights at 8:00 p.m. for an awareness-raising Earth Hour. At present, 24 cities -- with a total population of some 30 million people -- plan to participate in the energy-saving symbolism, from Toronto to Tel Aviv, Bangkok to Brisbane, Canberra to Copenhagen, and first Earth Hour participant Sydney to copycat eve ...
Topics: energy, grassroots activism, news, placemaking (all these topics)

Let buildings heat and cool themselves How to kill coal in 10 years	Jon Rynn	20 Feb 2008	Gristmill
We know that coal is the enemy of the human race, what with carbon emissions, deadly air pollution, and unsafe and destructive mining practices. The supply of coal is becoming more problematic as well: recently, a Wall Street Journal article described a 'coal-price surge,' and Richard Heinberg has warned that coal may peak much sooner than most people expect. So what's to like? Not much. But since coal-fired plants provide almost half of our electricity, we can't ge ...
Topics: coal, energy, energy at home, energy efficiency, green building, placemaking, renewable energy, urban planning (all these topics)

Lance Armstrong: more bike commuters, please A breathless appraisal of Lance's new bicycle mecca and mission	Adam Stein	16 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Lance Armstrong will soon unveil his 18,000-square-foot Austin-based bike shop, Mellow Johnny's (named after the Tour de France's yellow jersey -- or 'maillot jaune'). The goal of the shop is to promote bike culture and bike commuting: 'This city is exploding downtown. Are all these people in high rises going to drive everywhere? We have to promote (bike) commuting...'Showers and a locker room will allow commuters who don't have facilities at their offices to ride down ...
Topics: bikes, celebrity, green living, placemaking, Texas (all these topics)

The hills What would you build on the land near the iconic Hollywood sign?	Sarah van Schagen	13 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Get out your checkbooks, folks: The mountaintop property located just above the "H" in the iconic "Hollywood" sign is now for sale. The asking price? A sweet $22 million. Two years ago, Los Angeles officials and conservationists tried to purchase the land atop the 1,820-foot Cahuenga Peak to create a city park, but were unable to raise the funds. No matter what is constructed there -- homes, additional words (I see an advertising opportuni ...
Topics: green space, Los Angeles, placemaking, public lands (all these topics)

Our Kind of Guy Engineer plans to sell compressed-air car in India within a year		13 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 4:44 PM on 13 Feb 2008 Could folks in India be driving a car that runs on compressed air within a year? French engineer Guy Negre says it will be so. Tata Motors has backed his invention: a five-seater called the OneCAT, which would produce no emissions and cost around $5,000. "The first buyers [of the car] will be people who care about the environment," says Negre, who hopes that investors arou ...
Topics: business, cars, India, news, placemaking (all these topics)

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