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• We Have A New Forum for Conversation - Please Join Me!

  
  One Green Generation — Authority: 121
  As many of you know, I’ve been thinking about creating a forum here at One Green Generation.  Unfortunately, I am already trying to do too many things at the moment - some of you pointed out how much work maintaining a forum can be, and I agree.  So, I think I may have found a [...]
  23 hours ago

• How to Feed the World and Get a Nobel Prize: Invent an Efficient Small Scale Haber/Bosch Process

  
  Green Options — Authority: 146
  Ok, I didn’t actually clear this challenge with the Nobel Committee, but I think we could convince them.  Nobels were awarded early in the 20th century when German scientists Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch made the sequential advances that made it possible to make synthetic nitrogen fertilizer from the nitrogen gas ...
  2 days ago

• Remembering Tom Graff

  
  Switchboard, from NRDC — Authority: 632
  Yesterday, California lost one of its environmental heroes.  Our friends at the Environmental Defense Fund have posted a moving tribute to Tom Graff here .  Tom was a leading advocate on California water issues for more than three decades.  He was a champion for the Bay-Delta ecosystem and particularly for ...
  3 days ago

• New book ‘Green Community’ defines and illustrates sustainable neighborhoods, towns, cities

  
  Switchboard, from NRDC — Authority: 632
  I am most pleased to announce the release of Green Community , a new book produced and published jointly by the National Building Museum and the American Planning Association.  Its a terrific book of essays, if I do say so.  (Full disclosure: one of them is mine.) Federal Housing and Urban Development Secretary ...
  3 days ago

• Pull the Plug on the Electric Asian Carp Fence

  
  Switchboard, from NRDC — Authority: 632
  Poison has been used to repel invading armies throughout history.  And its just about to happen again outside Chicago. In this case, the invading army doesnt come in the form of armed troops...  actually, they are fish.  But their threat is very real.  And this escalation of tactics points not only to a real ...
  4 days ago

• Californias Co-Equal Goals for the Delta

  
  Switchboard, from NRDC — Authority: 632
  Today, Californias Governor is signing into law SB 7X 1 , part of the legislative package to reform water policy in the state.  The bill being signed today builds the foundation for a sustainable 21st century water policy, which is built on two interrelated principles: Improving water supply reliability and ...
  4 days ago

• ‘Dangerous by Design’ report faults systematic inattention to pedestrian safety

  
  Switchboard, from NRDC — Authority: 632
    Transportation for Americas website introduces its important new report , Dangerous by Design , with an attention-grabbing statistic: "In the last 15 years, more than 76,000 Americans have been killed while crossing or walking along a street in their community. More than 43,000 Americans - including ...
  4 days ago

• California Takes a Big Step Forward in Improving Water Efficiency

  
  Switchboard, from NRDC — Authority: 632
  Yesterday, the Governor signed into law SB 7X 7 , a bill that NRDC co-sponsored to improve water use efficiency in California.  This landmark legislation requires California to achieve a 20% improvement in water use efficiency per person by 2020, making California the first state to set numeric per capita water ...
  5 days ago

• “Housing First” offers glimmer of hope for homeless veterans, others

  
  Switchboard, from NRDC — Authority: 632
  On this Veterans Day, when we remember those who have served, it is troubling to note that, although veterans make up around 9 percent of our population, they comprise 23 percent of our homeless population and fully a third of our homeless men.  In a country that perpetually holds itself up as the best, most ...
  5 days ago

• Organic Farming Would Be Better In Terms of Climate Change Impact. Right?

  
  Green Options — Authority: 146
  I’m probably going to irritate some people with this post.  I apologize in advance because that is not at all my intention.  For those readers that don’t think climate change is a real problem, I respect the fact that there is uncertainty in that science, but if the majority position of climate scientists is ...
  6 days ago

• Major real estate report: shift to urban living is “fundamental,” outer suburbs may “lack staying power”

  
  Switchboard, from NRDC — Authority: 632
  Last week the Urban Land Institute and PriceWaterhouseCoopers released their well-regarded annual analysis, Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2010 .  The report, which has been published for the last 30 years, aims to advise the industry "on where to invest, what to develop, which markets are hot, and how the ...
  6 days ago

• New York state moves to align new infrastructure with smart growth

  
  Switchboard, from NRDC — Authority: 632
  According to a press release issued last week, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Pete Grannis has announced that the agency will update the system used to score applications for clean water infrastructure loans. The changes will provide communities with more incentives for ...
  1 week ago

• Looking Back - My Week of Environmentally Responsible Living

  
  Switchboard, from NRDC — Authority: 632
  No Impact Week is long over, but unfortunately I havent had a chance to blog and record my experiences during the last few days of the effort. Things got seriously busy, but here I am, back in action now, and I thought Id finish the No Impact Week series off with a few quick notes on energy (Day 5) and water (Day 6), ...
  1 week ago

• Walk Score incorporates transit, real estate industry takes note

  
  Switchboard, from NRDC — Authority: 632
      Walk Score keeps getting better, and it was already very good.  With assistance from the Rockefeller Foundation, the locational rating system has now incorporated transit service data from 40 metro regions into its service, so that its maps reflect this key measure of urbanity.  In the past, this ...
  1 week ago

• Federal officials, other leaders stress “sustainable communities” at national planning forum

  
  Switchboard, from NRDC — Authority: 632
    "Sustainable communities" was the phrase of the day at the annual symposium of the American Institute of Certified Planners , held last week at the National Building Museum.  Federal officials from the Departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development headlined the program, along with Joe ...
  1 week ago

• Anorexics and Bulimics Anonymous

  
  Boston Blogs - Boston's blog network — Authority: 459
  I received this over the transom, and am happy to pass it along. I know no one personally who has reached out to ABA, but I do know people who have gotten help from food-related 12 Step groups, and I could not endorse them more strongly. read more
  1 week ago

• All aboard: Cincinnati voters emphatically reject anti-streetcar measure

  
  Switchboard, from NRDC — Authority: 632
        Cincinnati voters have rejected "Measure 9," an anti-streetcar initiative, by a 56-44 percent margin.  The measure was aimed at killing a streetcar plan approved earlier this year by the city council, and would have required further referenda on any city spending on rail transit. This is great ...
  1 week ago

• Meet Rosel Designer, Juliane Camposano

  
  EcoSalon — Authority: 537
  Designer Juliane Camposano in a Rosel shrug Sustainably-designed knitwear isn’t something new, but really fashion-forward knits are. Rosel designer Juliane Camposano is one of those trendsetting knitwear lines to watch. Camposano grew up in Northern Germany, on the North Sea, where knits were commonplace ...
  1 week ago

• Florida county links density & conservation to restrict mining, protect water supply

  
  Switchboard, from NRDC — Authority: 632
  Lee County, Florida (Fort Myers) is moving forward with an innovative plan to use clustered, dense development instead of large-lot zoning to protect its water supply.  Under current zoning the southeastern portion of the Gulf coast county has been threatened by the spread of both limerock mining and large-lot ...
  1 week ago

• Design and ecotourism

  
  Boston Blogs - Boston's blog network — Authority: 459
  When I think of ecotourism, I think of jungles and rain forests. Get in, get out, leave as little trace as possible. For her new effort leading travelers overseas to investigate, and work on, sustainability projects, Andrea Atkinson has a different take: “We’re going beyond not leaving a footprint to leaving a ...
  2 weeks ago

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