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The Atlantic Cities | Debunking the Cul-de-Sac
Earlier neighborhoods were literally built on a scale for the human body, with architectural embellishments at eye level and blocks and sidewalks designed for foot travel. The human measuring stick hasn’t changed much over the last 200 years, and [...]
EatLocalGuide.com | The Great GMO Debate
The debate over the use of GMOs has been pretty much explicitly confined to two aspects, the scientific and the economic. But as Wendell Berry says, these are only two sides of an eight-sided coin. Read the entire article at EatLocal.com: The [...]
TheNation.com | The Food Movement: Its Power and Possibilities
Just as dramatic is the struggle for the seed. More than 1,000 independent seed companies were swallowed up by multinationals in the past four decades, so today just three—Monsanto, DuPont and Syngenta—control about half the proprietary seed [...]
City of Longmont | History of Longmont Power and Communications
City Council made several attempts to purchase the local distribution system from NCP, but to no avail. Several of the more active citizens then created Longmont Service and eventually pledged enough money to build a new distribution system complete [...]
The Denver Post | Boulder, Xcel Energy square off over city’s energy future
Minneapolis-based Xcel, which has served Boulder for a century, is fighting back. David Kenney, a political consultant whose clients have included former Gov. Bill Ritter and Gov. John Hickenlooper during his days as Denver mayor, is working on [...]
OnEarth.Org | The Bicycle Diaries
In the future, when gas prices are exorbitant and cities implement congestion charges that render driving a luxury that even fewer of us can afford, you, too, may find yourself pushing the pedals. Read the entire article at OnEarth.Org: The [...]
The Denver Post | Boulder County agriculture division helps keep urban sprawl at bay
LONGMONT — Four generations of the Zweck family have farmed on the west edge of town, but when the fifth opted out, the 230-acre operation seemed doomed to development. "The city limits are right on our fence," said John Zweck, whose [...]
CommonDreams.org | Monsanto Corn Spawning Superbug
Originally published in the Wall Street Journal: Widely grown corn plants that Monsanto Co. genetically modified to thwart a voracious bug are falling prey to that very pest in a few Iowa fields, the first time a major Midwest scourge has [...]
TPM Idea Lab | U.S. Solar Energy Exports Rise, Posting Positive Trade Balance With China
The U.S. solar market is thriving among fierce global competition -- even besting China last year when it came to trade between the two countries, according to a new report from GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association. Read the [...]
GOOD | Across the Globe, Solar Power Just Keeps Getting Cheaper
Solar power is getting cheaper. It’s something of a parlor game among energy companies and analysts to predict when, exactly, solar will achieve “grid parity” with coal and other cheap sources of electricity—in other words, when it will be [...]
