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• Regional planning for the Washington Metropolitan Area

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 498
  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, ...
  9 hours ago

• Land Use Issues Await New Governor and General Assembly

  
  Bacon's Rebellion — Authority: 426
  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 ...
  1 day ago

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

  
  Advanced Biofuels and Climate Change Information Center — Authority: 417
  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 ...
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• 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: 730
  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 ...
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• South Korea launches 19 billion dollar river project despite protests

  
  Carbon-Based — Authority: 440
  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 ...
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• UN Environment Program launches Bioenergy Issue Paper Series to bring emerging bioenergy topics into focus

  
  Biofuels Digest Biofuels DIgest — Authority: 620
  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 ...
  2 days ago

• Another example of co-located public facilities in Arlington County

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 498
  Flickr image from Arlington Public Library Arlington just had the dedication for a new combined library-elementary school. See " Official Launching of Dual Building " from the Connection Newspapers . I believe that co-location makes a lot of sense, maximizing the use and utility of public assets. Its ...
  2 days ago

• Petitioners Reply Brief In SCOTUS Beachfront Takings Case

  
  inversecondemnation.com — Authority: 467
  The property owners have filed their Reply Brief in Stop the Beachfront Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Dept of Environmental Protection , No. 08-11 (cert. granted. June 15, 2009), the case about "judicial takings" and the rights of littoral owners to accretion. Oral arguments in the Supreme Court are set for ...
  2 days ago

• Planning Commission Hearing for the Manson Sub Area Plan Tonight

  
  GoLakeChelan's Chelan Real Estate Blog — Authority: 125
  At 7:00 p.m. tonight there is a hearing with the Chelan County Planning Commission on the Manson Sub Area Plan.  Public input is still welcome on the plan.  The meeting will be held at the County Commissioner’s Chambers. This plan is controversial.  If you are a property owner in the Manson area, you should pay ...
  3 days ago

• (Not) Understanding Government

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 498
  1. To reiterate from yesterday, the (primary) reason that Rollin Stanley is so disconcerting is that he is painfully direct. 2. todays Post has a piece about how WMATA, the DC transit organization, is "stonewalling" safety checks by the advisory safety organization that seemingly provides oversight. See " Metro ...
  3 days ago

• LEED for Landscapes Aims to Green the Nations Greens

  
  Greener Buildings — Authority: 546
  The United States first voluntary rating system for sustainable landscapes launched last week, a development its creators hope will do for the landscaping sector what LEED did for the building industry.
  3 days ago

• LEED for Landscapes Aims to Green the Nations Greens

  
  GreenBiz.com Green Business News — Authority: 626
  The United States first voluntary rating system for sustainable landscapes launched last week, a development its creators hope will do for the landscaping sector what LEED did for the building industry.
  3 days ago

• WL GORE Wants To Develop A Revolutionary War Battlefield In Delaware. Can They Be Persuaded To Do The Right Thing And Swap The Land To Save It?

  
  Delaware Way — Authority: 144
  For the folks who can afford to shill up the fifty bucks to go celebrate up n comin cuttin edge biz, WL GORE, please pass along the request that they cooperate with New Castle County and the State of Delaware in representing our fallen heroes. At last weeks business meeting, the NCC Historic Review Board created an ad ...
  3 days ago

• USA Today: Expanding cities contribute to global warming

  
  Watts Up With That? — Authority: 730
  From Roger Pielke Sr. A very good news article titled Expanding cities contribute to global warming by Doyle Rice has been published on USA Today . The article is based on our paper Fall, S., D. Niyogi, A. Gluhovsky, R. A. Pielke Sr., E. Kalnay, and G. Rochon, 2009: Impacts of land use land cover on ...
  3 days ago

• Charlotte Mayor Patrick McCrory on transit

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 498
  From " Charlotte Mayor Patrick McCrory advocates Bay area rail " in the Tampa Bay Business Journal : “Wherever you put transit, it will create jobs,” he said. “The more choices you have, the more the consumer will want to live, work and play here.” I dont think this is exactly correct. If you dont put ...
  4 days ago

• Rollin Stanley, planning director in Montgomery County

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 498
  I went to a training session (a "planners bootcamp" at Catholic U, sponsored by the local chapter of the Am. Planning Association), and he spoke, ostensibly about how to do spellbinding graphic presentations, featuring presentations on the current Montgomery County Growth Strategy update process (the strategy is up ...
  4 days ago

• Brian, I Hope You’re Wrong

  
  Sussex Green — Authority: 403
  On October 21, 2009 Brian Shields posted the following comments on his blog, The Mourning Constitution:My Sussex County Council Representative, Mike Vincent, has been flying under the radar…much like how he was elected unopposed to a Freshman term. He is, though, supposedly the swing vote on this Lingo ...
  4 days ago

• Wrong Question: Can Biofuels Be Carbon Friendly?

  
  Advanced Biofuels and Climate Change Information Center — Authority: 417
  The Science Insider blog last week hosted an interesting debate between Tim Searchinger, Princeton visiting scholar, and John Sheehan, of the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota, regarding the recent policy proposal in the pages of Science by Searchinger et al. to “fix” the carbon ...
  4 days ago

• Wind farms grim harvest

  
  Oregon Living — Authority: 811
  Michael Fry: Where sage grouse once boomed, the whoosh of turbines is catching more and more birds. Regulations would help, says the director of conservation advocacy for the American Bird Conservancy.
  4 days ago

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