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Highlighting The Spread Of Sustainable Investing On Wall Street

Growing awareness of the ways data, technology and the power of investors can transform industries has lent new purpose to the Wall Street green movement and broadened the sector’s appeal to areas the original environmental investors might never...
Posted March 9, 2012 with views     
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Growing Cities Need Progressive Suburbs

While growth of our society over the next decade is inevitable, it is important that we focus some attention on where our growing population will work and reside. In a recent Atlantic Cities article, Jed Kolko lays out where the US Bureau of Labor...
Posted February 14, 2012 with views     
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How to Entice Car Owners to Switch to Public Transit

Years ago, general wisdom held that transit systems must bring people into a city’s central business district. The idea was to create a corridor from home to job. But the idea and the systems remained long after jobs left the city center. The...
Posted February 5, 2012 with views     
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How Formula One Made Your Car More Sustainable

Formula One racing may not be on your priority list for weekend sport watching, but green automotive enthusiasts should take note: the advanced technology in your new eco friendly car was most likely used on Formula One cars before it landed on...
Posted January 31, 2012 with views     
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Driverless Cars: What’s Holding Back the Automobile of the Future?

As convenient as cars are, each and every one of us has gotten frustrated at the unbearably slow driver in the left lane or the rude driver who refuses to drive any farther than two feet away from your rear bumper. Unsafe driving practices such as...
Posted January 25, 2012 with views     
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Why Trees Make For Safer Streets

Urban Forestry is a growing trend in cities looking to actively clean their air and water while making streets aesthetically pleasing for pedestrians, bike riders, and drivers as well. While I could list any number of benefits trees in urban areas...
Posted January 19, 2012 with views     
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Another Use for The Street

In America, a street built for pedestrians is still a growing idea.  However, in Europe this idea is a normal part of life. Pedestrian streets have been a part of European culture for hundreds, even thousands of years, despite changes in...
Posted January 5, 2012 with views     
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Recumbent Bikes: an Efficient + Comfortable Way to Reduce Emissions

While there is no doubt that traditional two wheel bicycles are a great way to save money on gas and reduce emissions, their upright nature does little to provide for the comfort of the driver on his or her way towards a more cost...
Posted December 30, 2011 with views     
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Why Start Cycling in Our Cities? A Lesson From Amsterdam

In today’s world, going green is almost a necessity, and a kind gesture to Mother Earth that only takes small steps to make a big difference.  Using a bicycle, instead of driving a car, is one way to help reduce the carbon footprint...
Posted December 22, 2011 with views     
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Bike Sharing Boom in Cities

Bike sharing sure has come a long way since the failed Yellow Bike Project of 1994 in Portland, Oregon. With the launch of New York City’s first system next spring coinciding with similar plans in other cities, it appears that bikes and bike...
Posted November 30, 2011 with views     
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Turning The Yellow School Bus Green

Most school buses in the United States are powered by diesel fuel, the exhaust from which is classified by the Environmental Protection Agency as a likely human carcinogen and can contribute to acute and chronic health effects including asthma,...
Posted November 27, 2011 with views     
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Does High Speed Rail Have a Future in the US?

A hot topic within the transportation sector these days concerns the epic possibilities of a national network of High Speed Rails.  Obama’s failed Jobs Bill dedicated $10 Billion towards furthering the technology and implementation.  Here...
Posted November 22, 2011 with views     
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