Have you ever run across an advertisement saying dirt is good? Have you ever wondered what would need to happen for garbage to be considered beneficial? Well, garbage is just...
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Environmentally Friendly Transport
The International Ecocity Standards identifies environmentally friendly transport as an essential urban design feature (www.ecocitystandards.org). Specifically, non-motorized...
The Full Broad Sun of Day – avoiding or addressing sea rise issues for the San Francisco Bay Area
In 2009 what could have been a threshold-crossing competition into a far healthier future took place on the future of San Francisco Bay Area. As far as I’m concerned the...
Ecocity Snapshots, Chapter 10, Nijmegen, Netherlands: Room for the river
Nijmegen, 2018 European Green Capital, fights climate change with renewable energy, compact development and a transportation system that puts bicycles in the driver’s seat...
Ecocity Snapshots, Chapter 9: Essen, Germany: Greening brownfields
Essen lies at the heart of the Ruhr Valley, at one time one of the world’s largest concentrations of the coal and steel industries. Since the mid-20th Century, this city of...
Ecocity Snapshots, Chapter 8: Ljubljana, Slovenia: River as centerpiece
Ljubljana, home to 283,000 people, is the capital of Slovenia, the mountainous republic surrounded by Italy, Austria, Hungary and Croatia. After years of car-centric planning in...
Global Cooling by 2050
Definitely possible if highly improbable. But what would it take? The scientists are not thinking like that because they watch trends and know people are hardly likely to do what...
Ecocity Snapshots, Chapter 7: Bristol, United Kingdom: Incubating change
Bristol describes itself as a “Laboratory for Change”. In awarding the 2015 title of European Green Capital to this city of 441,000 in South West England, the judges highlighted...
Car Free Journey: Atlanta, Georgia
Beginning with this issue, we will be expanding our coverage of cities featured in Car Free Journey. We always include information to help visitors who don’t want to drive. But...
Ecocity Snapshots, Chapter 6: Copenhagen, Denmark: Good cycle karma
To “Copenhagenize” means to design cities for bikes rather than cars. Not surprisingly, Copenhagen sits atop the Copenhagenize Index, an international measure of a city’s bike...