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Copenhagen, Melbourne & The Reconquest of the City
Chris Turner
December 10, 2008 10:00 AM
The Strøget in Copenhagen
Photo credit: flickr/PDXdj, Creative Commons license
For ten weeks this summer, a twelve-block stretch of Ste. Catherine Street in Montreal was transformed into a vibrant public square. It covered most of the main drag [...]
http://www.precaution.org/lib/08/prn_moral_climate.080901.htm
By Carl Safina
What most distresses me is the thirty years we’ve wasted by asking people to live sustainably. In high school in the early 1970s, having grappled with terrible air pollution, oil embargoes, and the tyranny of Big Energy, we knew we needed more economical and efficient cars, we knew we were vulnerable to unsavory [...]
By Paul Jones
Wednesday, August 20, 2008 2:02 PM PDT
Staff Writer
American Assets, the San Diego developer that recently applied for approval for its ambitious Fireman’s Fund office park renovation project, claimed in an Aug. 12 press release that its projections show that the project could be “carbon neutral” within 10 years, significantly ahead of the “2030 [...]
Meeting the 2030 Challenge Through Building Codes provides an unprecedented and much-anticipated guide for every city, county and state in the nation to swiftly meet the greenhouse gas reduction targets of the 2030 Challenge.
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We must green the market
Everywhere we look, the prices of goods don’t reflect the true environmental costs of their production
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THOMAS HOMER-DIXON AND STEWART ELGIE
From Wednesday’s Globe and Mail
August 6, 2008 at 8:13 AM EDT
Modern capitalist markets are among the most amazing institutions humankind has ever created. They are mighty engines [...]
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