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• A Dream Deferred in the Bronx, Now Lost

  
  City Room — Authority: 787
  A fathers plans for a medical center in the Morris Park section of the Bronx, to honor a son lost to leukemia, fall through.
  3 hours ago

• Where Rink Now Stands, an Isle Is Planned

  
  City Room — Authority: 787
  In Prospect Parks lake, an island that disappeared nearly 50 years ago beneath a skating rink is to re-emerge, Atlantis-like.
  22 hours ago

• Office Depots Campaign to Help Green the Workplace

  
  Greener Buildings — Authority: 499
  Office Depot, whose annual Green Guide is a compendium of the nearly 2,200 greenest products the retailer provides, has added a new dimension to its campaign to be the working worlds top supplier of eco-friendly office products.
  1 day ago

• Surface Coal Mining : Characteristics of Mining in Mountainous Areas of Kentucky and West Virginia

  
  RFF Library Blog — Authority: 141
  Government Accountability Office http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d1021.pdf [Summary]  Surface coal mining in the mountainous areas of Appalachia—often called “mountaintop mining”—generates controversy, in part because of its scale and the post-mining appearance of the land. Yet there is limited public access ...
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• Second Circuit: To Demolish Dangerous Property Without Notice, Dont Delay

  
  inversecondemnation.com — Authority: 469
  In WWBITV, Inc. v. Village of Rouses Point , No. 08-5112 (Dec. 9, 2009), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that a property owner whose building was demolished the day after it was badly damaged in a fire was not entitled to predeprivation notice. After the building -- an " old hotel " in ...
  1 day ago

• REDD: More Than a Developing Country Issue

  
  ClimateBiz.com — Authority: 477
  Some argue that REDD -- reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation -- is strictly an issue for developing countries, yet the developed world also has a big stake in the role that forestry can play in addressing climate change. REDD is being considered for various national climate change schemes and is also ...
  2 days ago

• REDD: More Than a Developing Country Issue

  
  GreenBiz.com Green Business News — Authority: 629
  Some argue that REDD -- reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation -- is strictly an issue for developing countries, yet the developed world also has a big stake in the role that forestry can play in addressing climate change. REDD is being considered for various national climate change schemes and is also ...
  2 days ago

• Nobel laureate criticizes Kenyan policies

  
  Carbon-Based — Authority: 484
  Sammy Cheboi and Dave Opiyo in AllAfrica.com via the Daily Nation (Kenya) : Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai has blamed bad policies for the worsening impact of climate change in Kenya. Addressing the UN conference on climate change, Prof Maathai said the climate change may have exacerbated a situation that was already ...
  2 days ago

• Fordham Slams Gate to Litigious Neighbors

  
  City Room — Authority: 787
  After residents of a nearby condo complex sued to halt Fordham Universitys planned expansion at its Lincoln Center campus, Fordham said it would close a walkway that allows the condo residents to cut across the campus.
  3 days ago

• Cisco Reduces Net GHG Emissions by 40%

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 611
  Cisco has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) for scope 1, 2 and 3 by 40 percent compared to fiscal year 2007, by implementing energy-efficiency programs, using collaboration technologies to reduce business air travel, and contractual efforts including the purchase renewable energy, according to the company’s ...
  3 days ago

• Seeing Yellow

  
  Walking the Berkshires — Authority: 411
  I am really glad my job isnt to manage this public relations disaster for the Borough Of Litchfield, Connecticut and its Board of Warden and Burgesses.  Fair use excerpt from Rinker Bucks column in the Hartford Courant : " Forthe past six years several military mothers here and their supportershave ...
  3 days ago

• Rice an unlikely global warming culprit

  
  Carbon-Based — Authority: 484
  Seed Daily via Agence France-Presse : Asian rice farmers typically do not fly around the world on holidays or own big-engine cars but scientists say they have an important role to play in helping cut the worlds output of greenhouse gases. While much of the globes focus in the climate change fight is on the burning of ...
  3 days ago

• Manson SubArea Commission Workshop December 14

  
  GoLakeChelan's Chelan Real Estate Blog — Authority: 126
  There will be a workshop to be held with the County Commission on the Manson SubArea Plan on December 14th in the County Commission office, the time is yet to be announced. I heard about this upcoming meeting last Friday as a meeting with the Commission and the Manson Community Council.  A couple of weeks ago I ...
  3 days ago

• Cities along Northstar corridor wait for development

  
  The Transportationist — Authority: 117
  Cities along Northstar corridor wait for developmentby Ambar Espinoza, Minnesota Public RadioDecember 7, 2009 St. Cloud, Minn. -- Minnesotas first commuter rail line has been up and running for three weeks now, but it has yet to spur any development along the route of the train. The article implies Northstar ...
  3 days ago

• To Kill An Egg-Sucking Dog

  
  inversecondemnation.com — Authority: 469
  We promised in our earlier post on Mann v. Calumet City , No. 09-1681 (Dec. 7, 2009) that we were going to read the egg-sucking dog case, Hull v. Scruggs , 2 So.2d 543 (Miss. 1941). We have, and present it below in its full glory. The rule of law in the case was summarized by Johnny Cash : Dirty Old ...
  3 days ago

• Land Use Law Day At The Seventh Circuit: "Property Owner Can Kill A Trespassing Dog That Has Irresistible Urge To Suck Eggs"

  
  inversecondemnation.com — Authority: 469
  Heres an opinion from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit thats worth reading, if only to see why we like reading Judge Posners writings: It uses contractions (Judge Kozinski would approve). Slip op. at 11 ("The rule doesnt apply to an order of civil contempt..."); slip op. at 5 ("No court thinks, ...
  4 days ago

• Rezoning of Brooklyns Broadway Triangle Advances

  
  City Room — Authority: 787
  The Broadway Triangle rezoning plan inched forward with votes by a land use subcommittee and a committee of the City Council.
  4 days ago

• On Brooklyn Bridge Park, Condos vs. Open Space

  
  City Room — Authority: 787
  The details of a $350 million project are up for debate Monday night at a hearing in Brooklyn.
  4 days ago

• iePolitics: SB County: 2007 audit critical of Land Use Services Department, estimated loss now at $13 million

  
  iePolitics.com — Authority: 154
  Reliable sources are telling iePolitics that losses in San Bernardino County’s Land Use Services Department have swelled to an astounding $13 million, more than double the previously disclosed amount. Internal County of San Bernardino County documents obtained by this blog indicate that in 2007, the ...
  4 days ago

• Tools we can use for better planning and decision making

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 535
  The Main Street Approach to commercial district revitalization is a volunteer driven program. You organize into 4 committees, create work plans each year, and go to town... The Main Street Center has a number of quality materials and training programs. At the start of the program in DC when there were 5 programs ...
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