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How Environmentalists Can Respond to Americans’ Need for Personal Space

October 14, 2011 by Kat Friedrich
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Instead of overlooking personal space issues, environmentalists should address them constructively. Understanding the way United States audiences respond to these questions could transform the way we design eco-friendly housing, products and communities. [read more]

Research Recap: Pollution-Reducing Rail, Public Transit Efficiency, Green San Francisco

July 6, 2011 by TheCityFix - produced by EMBARQ
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A study by Montreal University found that children living in economically disadvantaged urban areas are the most likely to choose walking and cycling. Photo by Nicola Jones. Welcome to “Research Recap,” our series highlighting recent reports, studies and other findings in sustainable transportation policy and practice, in... [read more]

The Tea Party Versus Sustainable Development: Part One

November 24, 2010 by Stephen Del Percio
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The way other people get at Christmastime is the way I get around Thanksgiving. I enjoy Christmas well enough — I like it when the world is quiet and still and indoors, and for we non-celebrants of that bent, Christmas day is indeed the most wonderful time of the year, even if we just use it to watch movies or whatever. But while the... [read more]

Preparing for 2014-15 "Oil Crunch" Forecast by UK industry Group

February 22, 2010 by Warren Karlenzig
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A new report by a United Kingdom industry taskforce predicts steep oil price rises and gasoline supply shortages by 2014-2015, which will put the global economy at similar risk to the rapid rise in oil prices in 2008 that helped trigger the Great Recession. "The time period would be 2014-2015 when the oil market would be starting to... [read more]

Stephanie Rawlings Blake:Rediscovering Downtown

February 15, 2010 by Spence Lean
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Well, Baltimore has a new Mayor. Stephanie Rawlings Blake has taken the Office after Shelia Dixon resigned and like any new Mayor, she has an agenda. Now, so far all that needs to be done in Baltimore is removing four feet of snow and I'm sure Madame Mayor has a more ambitious agenda than that. The Sun Paper asked Ms. Rawlings Blake... [read more]

Conservatives and Mass Transit: All Aboard? -- Politics Daily

October 14, 2009 by John Michlig
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One of the prime examples of an area of public policy where conservative dogma seems contrary to conservative ideology:Effete liberals love mass transit and red-blooded American conservatives disdain it, right? That's the stereotype, all right. Libs love their commuter trains, while we conservatives dig our pickup trucks. There's surely... [read more]