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NewWest.Net | Challenges of a Colorado Local Food Initiative
"Brownlee maintains that one indication of an increased awareness of food localization in the county is that the number of restaurants actively buying local food has increased from eight in 2006 to more than 80. He could not quantify exactly how [...]
Greater Greater Washington | Rewritten DC zoning code corrects past mistakes
"Few zoning rules have done more to harm urban neighborhoods than parking requirements. The view in the 1950s was that since everyone would drive everywhere all the time in The Future, all buildings need to have lots of space for cars.It turned out, [...]
Boulder Weekly | How Reagan and the largest EPA scandal in history may explain why Valmont Butte is still contaminated
"After the EPA’s assessment and inspection of Allied’s Valmont Butte site in 1982, the agency controlled by Burford, Lavelle and their like-minded Reagan appointees scored the contaminated site at 27.8 points on the HRS and labeled it for “no [...]
Atlantic Cities | Should Cities of the Future Look More to the Past?
"Imposing, impersonal buildings that bear no resemblance to their communities are off-putting. Traditional architecture draws people to its harmonious, human scale. Local, natural materials not only protect our environment, but connect us to it. And [...]
Term Sheet | Solo nation: American consumers stay single
"The extraordinary rise of living alone is among the greatest social changes since the baby boom. Until recently, no culture in human history had sustained large numbers of people in places of their own. Today more than 40% of households have just [...]
Realtor.org | The 2011 Community Preference Survey
"The 2011 Community Preference Survey reveals that, ideally, most Americans would like to live in walkable communities where shops, restaurants, and local businesses are within an easy stroll from their homes and their jobs are a short commute away; [...]
Boulder Weekly | Valmont cemetery families say city in danger of digging up human remains
"One of the key elements that will ultimately determine how many millions of dollars will be spent cleaning up contamination that originated from milling operations once located on the City of Boulder’s 103-acre Valmont Butte property is whether [...]
Boulder Weekly | The Ghosts of Valmont Butte
"Ever since the city of Boulder purchased its Valmont Butte property, city taxpayers have been picking up the tab to pay for the environmental sins committed by more than a century’s worth of long-departed users at the site. And that tab may be [...]
Los Angeles Magazine | Between the Lines
"This spring the DOT plans to introduce an $18.5 million smart wireless meter system based on Shoup’s theories. Called ExpressPark, the 6,000-meter array will be installed on downtown streets and lots, along with sensors buried in the pavement of [...]
Time | The Wet House: Homeless People with Alcoholism Drink Less When Booze Is Allowed
“Participants in the study told us that they’re happy to have a home, and happy that they no longer have to drink to stay warm or to put themselves to sleep or to forget that they’re on the streets.” Read the entire article at Time.com: [...]
