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The greening of Greensburg How one small town in Kansas is turning disaster into progress	Maywa Montenegro	28 Dec 2007	Gristmill
There wasn't much to be happy about on today's media spectrum. So I thought I'd share one heartwarming story about one Kansas town's efforts to pick up the pieces after a devastating tornado:Townhomes are beginning to rise from the ragged tree trunks, weeds and ruins off Main Street. They mark a radical departure from traditional low-income housing, according to Duncan Trahl, who is from Pennsylvania and on contract with the National Renewable Energy Labs.The to ...
Topics: green building, Kansas, placemaking, urban planning (all these topics)

Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh Bye Humans have intruded on large-mammal habitat, says study		27 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 4:57 PM on 27 Dec 2007 Humans have driven out large mammals in, um, droves, says a new study in the Journal of Mammalogy. Since the year 1500, at least 35 percent of mammals weighing over 44 pounds have seen their range cut by more than half, thanks to humans moving on in. Well gee, maybe if the animals had brought over a welcome basket we would have been more neighborly. source: BBC News < ...
Topics: biodiversity, news, placemaking, sprawl, wildlife (all these topics)

Building Anticipation Portland, Ore., green-building plan will be delayed		27 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 1:17 PM on 27 Dec 2007 Portland, Ore., proposed an ambitious green-building plan last month that was to go before voters in January. But the building and real-estate industries were taken aback by the announcement and have expressed concerns; City Commissioner Dan Saltzman now hopes to have a draft before the city council in three to six months. source: The Oregonian From the Archives ...
Topics: green building, news, placemaking, Portland (all these topics)

Count Your Blessing The depth of the Mississippi River's influence, in numbers		20 Dec 2007	Grist Feature
Fifty-eight semi-truck trailer loads traveling over 9 feet of water. Photo: Sarah van Schagen 10 -- states that border the Mississippi River 31 -- states drained by the Mississippi River watershed 1 2 -- Canadian provinces drained by the Mississippi River watershed 1 50 -- cities that rely on the river for their water supply 1 40 -- percentage of U.S. that's part of the Mississippi River basin 1 2,300 -- l ...
Topics: Mississippi River, placemaking (all these topics)

Balkin' in Memphis The riverfront in Memphis needs help -- but what kind?	Katharine Wroth	20 Dec 2007	Grist Feature
May God bless Memphis, the noblest city on the face of the earth. -- Mark Twain To visit Memphis, Tenn., is to visit a place that is slowly waking from a decades-long stupor. The things that define this city in the popular imagination -- the glamorous life of Elvis Presley, the shocking assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. -- happened decades ago. Some of the young professionals the city ...
Topics: Mississippi River, placemaking, Tennessee, urban planning (all these topics)

Gateway to Heaven St. Louisans turn a working river into a river that works for them	Sarah van Schagen	20 Dec 2007	Grist Feature
"The fifth night we passed St. Louis, and it was like the whole world lit up." -- Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn As the sun rises over the city of St. Louis, an arch-shaped shadow moves eastward over the city's bustling downtown and toward the Mississippi River, where it will leave its invisible mark until early evening. The 630-foot steel structur ...
Topics: Mississippi River, placemaking, urban planning (all these topics)

Dubuque's Not Bluffing An Iowa river town develops a real relationship with the Mississippi	Sarah van Schagen	20 Dec 2007	Grist Feature
"The care of rivers is not a question of rivers, but of the human heart." -- Tanaka Shozo Arriving in Dubuque, Iowa, is a bit disorienting. After passing acres and acres of the heartland's flat soybean and cornfields, you suddenly come upon a small city (pop. 60,000) with a surprising landscape. Gazing east to west, you see the muddy Mississippi meandering sou ...
Topics: Iowa, Mississippi River, placemaking, urban planning (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)

Banking On Change Up and down the Mississippi, communities are reinventing their riverfronts	Sarah van Schagen, Katharine Wroth	20 Dec 2007	Grist Feature
By Sarah van Schagen and Katharine Wroth 20 Dec 2007 Gone are the days when the Mississippi River was just a shipping route and flood risk that happened to run through a city's back yard. Increasingly, the legendary waterway is becoming recognized as a prized attraction, worthy of front-yard status. Here's how a few communities are drawing attention to a natural feature they once shunned. View Larger Map ...
Topics: Mississippi River, placemaking, urban planning (all these topics)

So MINI to Choose From Hybrid Technologies converts gas-powered cars to electric		18 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 4:09 PM on 18 Dec 2007 Obsessed with MINI Coopers but also like the idea of zero-emission electric vehicles? Have your car and drive it too: a company called Hybrid Technologies guts cars such as the MINI, smart fortwo, and PT Cruiser, and replaces their gas tanks with an electric motor and a stack of lithium batteries. Convinced? Starting in 2008, you'll be able to buy your electric MINI at Wal-Mart -- f ...
Topics: business, cars, electric vehicles, greenish companies, news, placemaking, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

The next blight	David Roberts	17 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Via Atrios, a preview of things to come: empty retail space in the 'burbs. How long can something stay empty and still retain that clean, sterile look the 'burbs are known for? How long until blight sets in?
Topics: sprawl, placemaking (all these topics)

Financing green building and retrofits A public policy silver bullet that's available to fight global warming today	David Roberts	17 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Steve Heckeroth's piece "Solar is the solution" has been recommended all over the green blogosphere, first by Robert Rapier, I think. It's great reading, but I wanted to hone in on one thing he mentions -- a piece of public policy that has been woefully under-hyped. To wit: with today's technology, we know how to make new buildings net energy generators, and we know how to retrofit existing buildings to reduce their energy consumption by well over 50%, in s ...
Topics: green building, placemaking, energy (all these topics)

You'll Love It at Levittown Levittown, N.Y., aims to be first green suburb		17 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 1:49 PM on 17 Dec 2007 Think the phrase "green suburb" is an oxymoron? Levittown, N.Y., begs to differ. From the Archives Did You Want Rise With That? Sea-level rise this century could be twice IPCC's predictions, says research. What a Serve! House of Representatives' food service goes sustainable. O Me! O Life! Of the Questions of These Recurring. Synthetic DNA could soon yi ...
Topics: New York, news, placemaking, sprawl (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)

Are You From Tennessee? 'Cause You're the Only Ten I See Al Gore's home meets LEED Gold standard		14 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 11:32 AM on 14 Dec 2007 Al Gore has finished efficiency renovations on his much-maligned Tennessee home. Solar panels, rainwater collection, geothermal heating, and non-incandescent light bulbs have helped the abode earn a LEED Gold rating from the U.S. Green Building Council. source: Associated Press From the Archives Deliverance. Green group ranks eco-friendline ...
Topics: Al Gore, green building, news, placemaking (all these topics)

You Win Some, You Newsom San Francisco mayor proposes strict green-building standards		13 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 5:14 PM on 13 Dec 2007 San Francisco would have the most stringent green-building standards in the U.S. if the city Board of Supervisors adopts a new measure proposed yesterday by Mayor Gavin Newsom. By 2012, Newsom wants all new residential buildings over 75 feet tall, commercial buildings of more than 5,000 square feet, and renovations on buildings of more than 25,000 square feet to be certified by ...
Topics: green building, news, placemaking, San Francisco (all these topics)

A desire named streetcar Transportation planning with people in mind	Eric de Place	12 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Say what you will about streetcars, they have an unmatched appeal. I mean, there must be a reason why it's hard to imagine a smoldering love affair between Marlon Brando and Vivian Leigh with a bus theme. Or, as the inimitable Dan Savage says: Why is this so hard to understand? ... People like trains. People hate buses. To wit, the Seattle P-I recently interviewed folks about the new Seattle streetcar and elicited what I imagine are fairly ...
Topics: Seattle, public transportation, placemaking (all these topics)

We Hail These Taxis NYC taxicabs will have to boost fuel economy		12 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 1:28 PM on 12 Dec 2007 New York City taxicabs purchased after Oct. 1, 2008, will be required to get at least 25 miles per gallon, and those purchased after fall 2009 will have to get 30 mpg -- so, basically, will have to be hybrids, according to a rule adopted by the city's Taxi and Limousine Commission. The city's iconic Crown Victoria cabs currently get around a measly 10 mpg. sources: The New York Sun, Associated Pre ...
Topics: cars, fuel efficiency, hybrids, New York City, news, placemaking (all these topics)

Greening public housing	David Roberts	10 Dec 2007	Gristmill
The Clinton Global Initiative is arranging to have banks finance green retrofits of NYC public housing. CGI is, for my money, one of the most interesting groups figuring out practical, post-ideological solutions to climate change.
Topics: green building, New York, New York City, placemaking (all these topics)

Where the Streets Have No Name -- But the Skyscrapers Do Environmentalists upset over Dublin's planned U2 Tower		05 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 10:14 AM on 05 Dec 2007 Bono and his fellow U2-ers are stuck in a melee (and they can't get out of it) over a plan to construct a skyscraper in band members' native Dublin. The tower, monikered U2 Tower in the name of self-love, would be the highest building in Ireland. Ian Lumley of heritage group An Taisce says the building is not the sweetest thing -- it would "be an ...
Topics: celebrity, green living, Ireland, music, news, placemaking, urban planning (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: United States, climate, energy, green living, placemaking, politics, economy (all these topics)

Right Club Brad Pitt wants you -- to help with his NOLA green-building project		03 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 1:27 PM on 03 Dec 2007 Brad Pitt -- OMG he's so dreamy! Sorry, reflex. Where were we? Brad Pitt today unveiled designs submitted by architecture firms for his Make It Right campaign to build 150 affordable, sustainable, storm-safe houses in New Orleans. Architects were asked to design a 1,200-square-foot, three-bedroom house for about $150,000. Pitt also unveiled a display of pink fabric "houses" ...
Topics: celebrity, green building, green living, news, placemaking (all these topics)

Atlanta Paves Housing slump is slowing sprawl in metro Atlanta		27 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 2:47 PM on 27 Nov 2007 The current housing slump in the U.S. may be helping to slow sprawl -- at least if the experience of metro Atlanta is a reliable microcosm. From the Archives Google Dolls. Google funds R&D to make clean energy cheaper than coal. I'm the President! No, I'm the President! George Bush fetes Al Gore in Oval Office. I Don't Think You're Ready for This Jelly. Northern Ireland ...
Topics: news, placemaking, sprawl (all these topics)

Brit's Eye View: Greening our cities How do U.K. cities stack up in terms of sustainability?	Peter Madden	26 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Peter Madden, chief executive of Forum for the Future, writes a monthly column for Gristmill on sustainability in the U.K. and Europe. Every year more and more people live in cities. Globally, we became a majority urban world for the first time last year, while here in the U.K., nine out of 10 of us live in towns and cities. Cities are clearly important for sustainability. Although the romantic green notion of us all living on small holdings with a goat, a vin ...
Topics: ecological footprint, green living, placemaking, United Kingdom, urban planning (all these topics)

Pedal power Cyclists should be more involved as biking advocates	Alan Durning	26 Nov 2007	Gristmill
This essay is part of a series on bicycle neglect. ----- Blame me. It's my fault the Northwest does not treat bicycling with respect. How? Bear with me, and I'll explain. Cascadia is, as Washington state legislator Dick Nelson used to say, a 'motorhead democracy' -- a place where licensed drivers substantially outnumber registered voters and where car-head dominates transportation thought and debate. No matter how much good Bicycle Respect would do for our ...
Topics: bikes, placemaking (all these topics)

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