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Grassroutes | Yonah Freemark | Nov 17th, 2010 | Topic: Built Environment | Region: East Coast | Cities: New York |
Electric vehicles are being marketed as if they are will simply replace gas-guzzling cars. But they offer wide possibilities for change. (
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Julia Ramey Serazio | Sep 20th, 2010 | Topic: Governance | Region: Midwest | Cities: Chicago |
Each Monday, we invite you to meet a member of the Next American Vanguard, a group of the nation’s brightest young urban leaders. This week: Emma Berndt of the Clinton Climate Initiative. (
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Open Cities | Christian Madera | Sep 16th, 2010 | Topic: Culture | Region: West Coast | Cities: New York, Portland |
Beyond Farmville: It’s not just the ubiquitous Facebook game that is helping to increase interest in growing your own food. Online tools designed to connect local farmers with consumers are helping sustain the local food and urban agriculture movements. (
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Diana Lind | Next American City | May 3rd, 2010 | Topic: Governance, Culture, Built Environment | Region: Central, East Coast, Midwest, South, West Coast | Cities: Philadelphia |
Each year Next American City chooses more than 30 outstanding young leaders from around the country to join together for a two-day conference. Call Next American Vanguard, the group and the conference are dedicated to understanding American cities and strategizing ways of improving them. Here’s the class of 2010. (
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Worldwatch | Josh Leon | Dec 8th, 2009 | Topic: Governance | Region: | Cities: |
As the Copenhagen climate change discussions get underway, Josh Leon wonders whether advocating for the continued use of automobiles—even the fancy new “green” ones—might spell disaster for cities. (
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Hamida Kinge | Mar 11th, 2009 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
Three months ago, the Environmental Protection Agency publicized its first replica of a “most wanted” list. In her new column, The Tipping Point, Hamida Kinge asks whether in doing so, they were missing the target. (
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Nate Berg | Nov 7th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
If one were to step back and take a look at the world as a whole, without international borders, the health and efficiency of this one entity would appear very poor. It’s a dismal view, but might this be a better way to approach the challenge of climate change? (
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Hayley Richardson | Oct 19th, 2007 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
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