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LATimes.com | Critic’s Notebook: Fast lane to gridlock
It's striking, though, that amid all this handwringing we've barely paused to ask the most basic questions about what the widening project means for the city and how we navigate it or how we think about the relationship between architecture and [...]
Grist | When is it time to break up with your utility?
City officials aren’t just interested in clean, reliable electricity. They also want to learn more about the potential for generating electricity locally. While any new energy generator can add jobs and grow the economy, locally owned renewable [...]
CNET News | Swiss political party tries to ban PowerPoint
The Swiss might have been slightly late in giving women the vote (1971 was the year), but they still believe in certain progressive forms of democracy. One of these seems to be helping a fascinating political party in its quest to have PowerPoint [...]
NYTimes.com | Number of Female Cyclists Lags in New York, With Safety as a Concern
Despite the city’s efforts to become more bike friendly, male cyclists in New York continue to outnumber female cyclists three to one, just as they have steadily over the past two decades. Data tracked by the city and private groups shows the gap [...]
Think Progress | As Oklahoma Swelters Under Record Heat and Drought, Inhofe Bails on Heartland Denier Conference: ‘I am Under the Weather’
You may recall last year that Senator Inhofe’s grandchildren built an igloo to mock a killer snow storm, calling it ‘Al Gore’s New Home’. Of course, extreme precipitation is precisely what we expect from human-caused global [...]
NYTimes.com | Across Europe, Irking Drivers Is Urban Policy
Store owners in Zurich had worried that the closings would mean a drop in business, but that fear has proved unfounded, Mr. Fellmann said, because pedestrian traffic increased 30 to 40 percent where cars were banned. Read the entire article at [...]
The Colorado Independent | Koch Brothers Beaver Creek retreat to be met by protesters
Word that a retreat hosted by conservative mega-donors Charles and David Koch is coming to Colorado has spurred activists across the state into action. Colorado Common Cause, ProgressNow, Moveon.org, and others plan to meet and protest in Beaver [...]
The Colorado Independent | Boulder in midst of fight to determine who supplies the light
The hope is that a municipalized Boulder, if advertised as a dynamic and independent player in the emerging renewable sector, could become a hotbed of solar, geothermal and wind entrepreneurship and research. Read the entire article at the [...]
The Colorado Independent | Community owned solar array goes live in Rifle
Tuesday, the nation’s largest community owned solar energy facility opened in Rifle. The Glenwood Post Independent reports that the array’s 3,575 solar energy panels are expected to produce more than 1,500 megawatt-hours of clean, renewable [...]
NYTimes.com | A Federal Study Finds That Local Reporting Has Waned
Coverage of state governments and municipalities has receded at such an alarming pace that it has left government with more power than ever to set the agenda and have assertions unchallenged, concluded the study, which is to be released on [...]
