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Rust Wire | Soul-Crushing Sprawl Killing Business
The fundamental problem it seems to me is that our region has gone berserk on suburbia to the expense of having any type of nearby open space or viable urban communities, which are the two primary spatial assets that attract and retain the best [...]
The Colorado Independent | Federal court delivers another blow to Arizona immigration law
The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has backed the Obama Administration in its case against SB 1070, the controversial immigration legislation passed by Arizona lawmakers last year. A three-judge panel ruled Monday that Arizona District Judge [...]
Sustainable City Network | Portland Energy Retrofit Program Goes Statewide
"The Portland pilot program has been successful in supporting new jobs in the community, expanding the market for energy efficiency products and services, and is serving as a model for other communities looking to adopt home energy efficiency [...]
GOOD | Heroes: Young Woman Who Saved Thousands of Lives
The voice is Miki Endo, a 25 year old public worker in the Crisis Management Department of the city of Minami Sanriku. She is saying, roughly, "Please run away fast." The mess of red beams are the skeletal remains of the building from which Endo [...]
NYTimes.com | The Price We’re Willing to Pay for Oil
When oil prices are high, Americans like to say that the oil markets are broken, driven by speculators, detached from reality, driven by conspiracy. When prices are low, we do not have complaints about the oil markets. Then we say the “markets are [...]
NYTimes.com | Grading New York Teachers – When the Formulas Lie
You would think the Department of Education would want to replicate Ms. Isaacson — who has degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia — and sprinkle Ms. Isaacsons all over town. Instead, the department’s accountability experts [...]
Boulder Weekly | It’s not about the bike
Some say that the desires and demographics of the city of Boulder are shifting and that conservation policies need to accommodate those changes. Others point out that this isn’t the first time a group of recreationists has come into conflict with [...]
CSMonitor | Downtown need a makeover? More cities are razing urban highways
"For people who live and work around , they always had huge negative side effects: They broke up the urban fabric, were noisy, and divided cities," says Ted Shelton, a professor of architecture at the University of Tennessee who has studied urban [...]
EPA | Location Efficiency and Housing Type – Boiling it Down to BTUs
How and where we construct our communities has an enormous effect on our energy consumption. Buildings and transportation together account for about 70 percent of energy use in the United States and are responsible for about 62 percent of U.S. [...]
APA Planning | Rescuing the Castaways
Many cities have saved unique historic buildings by adapting them for new and profitable uses. But properties left stranded since 2008 by the receding flood of cheap loans are different. These are not one-in-a-million properties but one of a [...]
