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• iePolitics: Additional information requested

  
  iePolitics.com — Authority: 521
  iePolitics is seeking out additional tips relative to land development negotiations in the cities of Rialto, Ontario, Chino, Upland, Claremont, and Rancho Cucamonga. The information you have provided to date involving area real estate matters has been quite helpful. E-mail us at: inlandempirepolitics@gmail.com
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• Jim Titus Writes: How Delaware (And Other Coastal States) Respond To Rising Sea Level

  
  Delaware Way — Authority: 145
  Jim Titus is giving us fair warning here about whats coming down the pike and the kinds of decisions that our state is going to have to make in the near future about sustainability and livability in terms of land use and the inadequacy of laws currently on the books. From the inbox: I am writing to let you ...
  14 hours ago

• One Change Could Cut Brazils Carbon Emissions in Half

  
  Solve Climate: Daily Climate News and Opinion — Authority: 613
  Brazil is the fourth-largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world, responsible for about 5 percent of current global GHG emissions. Maybe this isn’t shocking. It’s a huge country. Its south is speckled with major population centers, and it has a southern industrial belt. Yet most of its emissions don’t come from ...
  15 hours ago

• B Corp Expands Certification to Building Industry

  
  Greener Buildings — Authority: 549
  B Lab, the nonprofit that created the sustainable business certification, launched its building industry addenda at the Greenbuild conference Thursday, the product of 18 months of development by more than two dozen industry leaders.
  17 hours ago

• B Corp Expands Certification to Building Industry

  
  GreenBiz.com Green Business News — Authority: 645
  B Lab, the nonprofit that created the sustainable business certification, launched its building industry addenda at the Greenbuild conference Thursday, the product of 18 months of development by more than two dozen industry leaders.
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• Redefining U.S.-Israel Foreign Policy

  
  Fog City Journal — Authority: 523
  In President Obama’s June 2009 Cairo Islam speech, he called for a Palestinian state and a freeze on Israeli settlements. By Ralph E. Stone November 15, 2009 Now is the time for a long overdue debate on our current Israeli foreign policy. The fallout from Israel’s 2006 war with Lenbanon and its 2009 ...
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• Streamline land use code revision process

  
  Salida Citizen — Authority: 132
  Ann Marie Swan recently wrote a very comprehensive story about the new land use code committee. It provides a terrific overview of a rather complex issue. For me, her story raises the question of why? Why is there yet another committee of citizen laymen charged with something that seems better handled by ...
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• Dangerous minds...

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 500
  Its not original thinking to put rail transit on freeways. Even if the New York Times thinks it is and deemed it necessary to run this not very interesting op-ed, " Revolutionary Road ." But its dangerous thinking. Freeways allow people to get to and from places, but generally they dont connect activity centers ...
  2 days ago

• Ag Art Nature Tourism and Court Theater Committee Meeting Cancelation Alert!

  
  Thegardeningsnail's Weblog — Authority: 120
  General Meeting – All Invited Ag/Art/Nature Tourism in Merced County Meeting: Monday 16, Nov 2009, 11:00am to 1pm Multi-Cultural Art Center 645 W. Main Street between M and N Streets, Merced Sponsored by: Valley Land Alliance and UC Cooperative Extension Light lunch provided 11:00 Welcome – Maxwell Norton, ...
  3 days ago

• Response to Judicial Review of Wolverhampton City Council’s decision to grant planning permission against HSE’s advice

  
  What's new at HSE — Authority: 143
  HSE statement about the judgement that Wolverhampton Council failed to notify the HSE that it was minded to grant planning permission, and it failed to notify the HSE that it had granted planning permission against advice. View HSE statement on Judicial Review
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• Pfizer to Leave City That Won Supreme Court Land-Use Case

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 914
  Susette Kelos house, a landmark of sorts, was moved from the Fort Trumbull neighborhood that was seized by New London. Ms. Kelo was the losing plaintiff in a 5-to-4 Supreme Court decision.
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• Beachfront Taking Case (HAWICA) Oral Argument Recording

  
  inversecondemnation.com — Authority: 124
  The judiciary web site has posted the recording of the November 10, 2009 Intermediate Court of Appeals oral arguments in Maunalua Bay Beach Ohana 28 v. State of Hawaii , No. 28175 (HAWICA) here (caution, it is a massive 88 MB mp3 file). The issue in the case is whether the state, or littoral landowners, are ...
  4 days ago

• Scenes from My 15th Greenbuild Expo

  
  Greener Buildings — Authority: 549
  The sights and sounds of this years conference show just how far the gathering -- and the green building as an industry -- has changed since the first, tiny outdoor gathering in Big Sky, Montana in 1994.
  4 days ago

• Regional planning for the Washington Metropolitan Area

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 500
  From page 4 of the Greater Washington 2050 plan. The biggest idea there is would be linking transportation planning and land use planning into an integrated framework, and requiring intensification of land use across the region, rather than more sprawl. There is a process for the creation of a Regional Growth Plan, ...
  4 days ago

• Land Use Issues Await New Governor and General Assembly

  
  Bacon's Rebellion — Authority: 472
  The elections are over; Virginia has a new Governor and several new members of the House of Delegates, and when Bob McDonnell takes the oath of office and the General Assembly reconvenes in January multiple problems will be awaiting attention. Among them are a series of land use issues that will affect Virginia’s ...
  5 days ago

• From Pacific Rim Summit: Specialty Crops, Renewable Feedstocks & Sustainability

  
  Advanced Biofuels and Climate Change Information Center — Authority: 418
  This panel on the second day of the Summit consisted of Richard Gustafson from the University of Washington, Gillian Madill, an independent consultant representing views of the environmental NGO community and John Sheehan, from the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota. While Mr. Gustafson and ...
  5 days ago

• Georgia Tech: “50 percent of the [USA] warming that has occurred since 1950 is due to land use changes rather than greenhouse gases”

  
  Watts Up With That? — Authority: 723
  County-level land-use changes from 1950 to 2000, based on censuses of population, housing, and agriculture. A) change in population density; B) change in land area settled at “exurban densities” (i.e., 1 house per 1 to 40 acres); C) change in percent cropland (Brown et al. 2005). From a Georgia Tech Press ...
  5 days ago

• South Korea launches 19 billion dollar river project despite protests

  
  Carbon-Based — Authority: 441
  Terra Daily via Agence France-Presse : South Korea on Tuesday launched a 19 billion dollar project to dredge and restore its four major rivers despite protests over the feared environmental impact. Excavators started shifting soil to build temporary dams on two of the rivers after the environment ministry gave the ...
  5 days ago

• UN Environment Program launches Bioenergy Issue Paper Series to bring emerging bioenergy topics into focus

  
  Biofuels Digest Biofuels DIgest — Authority: 589
  At the United Nations, the UN Environment Program has launched the UNEP Bioenergy Issue Paper Series: Bringing emerging bioenergy topics into focus . The UNEP Bioenergy Issue Paper Series will be releasing a new paper every month, and topics will be chosen as they appear. The first issue is covering land use, land ...
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• Lots of Controversy at Manson Sub Area Hearing with Planning Commission

  
  GoLakeChelan's Chelan Real Estate Blog — Authority: 125
  The Chelan County Planning Commission hearing on the Manson Sub Area Plan did not adjourn until 11:00 p.m. last night.  There was a bunch of new public input to the process and the vacation rental issue continues to be a hot topic with the public. Going right to the punch line, the Planning Commission adopted the ...
  6 days ago

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