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• New Castle County Council-Coochs Bridge Battlefield Area/Gore Properties Vote Tonight In Wilmington

  
  Delaware Way — Authority: 147
  My email to get the word out included ccs to Angie Basicoonsies bosses: Kim, Ralph and all, can you help spread the word about the countys vote tonight on the fate of the segment of the Battle of Coochs Bridge battlefield owned by WL GORE? The News Journals county beat reporter has totally ignored ...
  19 hours ago

• Intensive land-management leaves Europe without carbon sinks

  
  Watts Up With That? — Authority: 771
  Away from Climategate and back to science, here’s something interesting fingering land use as an issue. This is from the Max Planck Society . A new calculation of Europe’s greenhouse gas balance shows that emissions of methane and nitrous oxide tip the balance and eliminate Europe’s terrestrial sink of ...
  1 day ago

• PG County "Envisioning" process

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 520
  1. Remember that people in Prince Georges County dont like it when you refer to the County as PG... 2. They have a visioning process going on now. See " Residents lend a hand in planning the future of Prince Georges " from the Gazette . (Its similar to the Growth Policy process in Montgomery County.) 3. ...
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• New York Court of Appeals Finds Zoning Board Abused Its Discretion in Granting Use Variance

  
  New York Zoning and Municipal Law Blog — Authority: 104
  The New York Court of Appeals in In the Matter of Edward J. Vomero v City of New York, et al has unanimously held that the City of New York Board of Standards and Appeals abused its discretion in granting a use variance to use residentially-zoned property for commercial use. The Court reversed the decision of the ...
  2 days ago

• Wildfires spreading as temperatures rise

  
  Carbon-Based — Authority: 486
  Janet Larsen of the Earth Policy Institute in IPS : Future firefighters have their work cut out for them. Perhaps nowhere does this hit home harder than in Australia, where in early 2009 a persistent drought, high winds, and record high temperatures set the stage for the worst wildfire in the countrys history. On ...
  3 days ago

• Pact marks joint effort to go forward for Northwest fish

  
  Oregon Living — Authority: 807
  Ron Suppah and Steve Wright: That Northwest tribes and the Bonneville Power Administration agree on how to restore salmon and steelhead runs is a powerful signal that the region is finally beginning to address inequities tribes have too long endured.
  3 days ago

• Hearings Officer Agenda - December_No Hearings

  
  PortlandOnline — Authority: 167
  PDF Document, 13kb Category: Land Use Hearing Officer Agenda
  4 days ago

• City Moves to Restrict Front-Yard Driveways

  
  City Room — Authority: 791
  New rules would restrict so-called curb cuts -- the sidewalk indentations created to allow cars to move from the street onto the front yards of houses -- and tighten front-yard "planting" requirements.
  4 days ago

• Savannah’s Abercorn Street Extension is “Dangerous by Design”

  
  Sustainable Savannah | Tracking sustainability news and events in Savannah, Georgia (and beyond) — Authority: 115
  News reports from the Nov. 17 death of a man, who was attempting to cross Abercorn Street Extension, have included a familiar reminder issued by the Savannah Chatham Metropolitan Police Department, which and automatically echoed in by local media in similar reports: “Pedestrians should use crosswalks.” The ...
  4 days ago

• Thursdays Links

  
  inversecondemnation.com — Authority: 123
  Things we were reviewing today: Check out the just-launched Hawaii Civil Procedure blog . Its a welcome addition to the blogroll for Hawaii civil practitioners. My colleague Mark Murakami has set up a resource page for all things about the McDonald v. City of Chicago case. Thats the appeal currently being ...
  5 days ago

• Memo to Bankrupt Cities: Try Competition

  
  The Beacon — Authority: 616
  As cities across the country face growing deficits, instead of their current strategy of raising taxes and cutting services, they might like to take a look at a few case study examples of how those before them solved their challenges. As an example, ten years ago we hosted the then-mayors of Indianapolis, Stephen ...
  5 days ago

• Ethanol and a Changing Agricultural Landscape

  
  RFF Library Blog — Authority: 135
  Economic Research Service, US Dept. of Agriculture / by http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/ERR86/#2009-11-16 [Summary] The Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007 established specific targets for the production of biofuel in the United States. Until advanced technologies become commercially viable, ...
  5 days ago

• Amazon deforestation is on the decline, while U.S. ethanol production increases

  
  Ethanol. Right. Now. — Authority: 107
  The theory of "indirect land use change" maintains that if an acre of corn in the United States is used for ethanol production, an acre elsewhere in the world will be converted to agriculture to make up for it --...
  5 days ago

• Links From ABA Condemnation Committee Conference Call (11/18/2009)

  
  inversecondemnation.com — Authority: 123
  Another very interesting conference call today, focusing on theupcoming arguments in the Stop the Beach Renourishment case, the New York Court of Appeals decision in Aspen Creek , and the New Jersey Supreme Courts decision to review Klumpp v. Borough of Avalon . Here arethe links to some of the cases and other ...
  6 days ago

• A shrinking major lake in China is a victim of drought

  
  Carbon-Based — Authority: 486
  China Daily : Dongting Lake, the nations second largest freshwater lake, has decreased by more than 90 percent compared with its average capacity during the flood season, a local official said. Presently the lakes total volume is about 770 million cu m, less than 10 percent of the average volume during the flood ...
  6 days ago

• Federal Land Management : Challenges to Implementing the Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act

  
  RFF Library Blog — Authority: 135
  Government Accountability Office / statement of Robin Lane, Director, Natural Resources and Environment before the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands, Committee on Natural Resources, House of Representatives / http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d10259t.pdf [Summary] Under the Federal Land ...
  6 days ago

• Focusing on a single goal will not mean success for Project DeRenne

  
  Sustainable Savannah | Tracking sustainability news and events in Savannah, Georgia (and beyond) — Authority: 115
  A summary presentation for the recent Project DeRenne charrette is scheduled for Thursday, Dec. 3 at 7 p.m. at 131 W. DeRenne Ave. The location, a former NAPA auto parts store, is fitting. The nearby intersection of DeRenne Avenue and Montgomery Street is—as one of the charrette facilitators from Kimley-Horne ...
  6 days ago

• $80,000 to Live on Your Own Farm?

  
  Cascade Policy Institute - Oregon Public Policy — Authority: 412
  Click the play button to hear the audio commentaryOregon is a leader in the “buy local food” movement, and buying fresh produce from local farmers’ markets and community supported agriculture (CSA) could become an even stronger trend in our state. People not only want to know where their food is coming from, but ...
  1 week ago

• Mandates to Reduce Driving Will Kill Oregon’s Economy

  
  Cascade Policy Institute - Oregon Public Policy — Authority: 412
  By Todd Wynn and John A. Charles, Jr.Summary: Numerous federal, state and local policies aim to reduce vehicle miles travelled as a carbon-emissions reduction plan, yet rarely considered are the possible economic effects of these policies. New evidence shows that those effects are likely to damage both the environment ...
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• Can smarter land use help stop violence in the community?

  
  Smart Growth Around America — Authority: 406
  The public health field often looks at changing individual behavior to get better outcomes – we offer driver’s education to prevent accidents, or conduct public service announcements about the importance of exercise to lower obesity levels. New research on violent crime helps illustrate the fact that the choices ...
  1 week ago

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