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Biodiversity in Singapore?
While New York City wrangles over a few bike paths, Singapore is not only adding green space, it's determined to turn itself from a city with gardens to "a city within a garden" with biodiversity considerations usually foreign to urban concerns. Read More...
Still Fossil-Fueled, but Cleaner, Greener, Nonetheless
How many of New York's larger buildings are responding to the City's demand that they stop burning the highly polluting No. 6 oil is a great hands on demonstration of how large buildings can come clean and make money doing it. Read More...
Bikes Win Tour de Carmaggeddon
When Jet Blue set up a flight over the 40 miles of L.A.'s Carmaggeddon, it was challenged by guys on bikes, and even people who took the LA Metro. Guess who came in last! Read More...
The Fifth Fuel: Hong Kong and Its Mindset
The fifth fuel is saving energy. If profligate California can bring its energy use down 40%, so can the rest of the developed world. But creating this mindset isn't easy. This article about energy use in Hong Kong is lays out why. Read More...
Strangling Car Traffic to Create Walkable Cities
Making it less pleasant to drive and more pleasant to walk or ride a bike is making many European cities more pleasant to live in, with cleaner air merely one of the perks. Read More...
Wealthy Guzzle Water During Florida Drought
With one typical wealthy West Palm Beach landowner managing to continue her use of an average of 10,000 gallons a day on her 2-acre property during Florida's current drought while the town does nothing but wring its hands, there's not much hope for the rest of the state's residents. Read More...
Grand Scale Planet Saves: Possible but Unlikely
This OpEd piece from the NY Times lays out things we could actually do to execute a last-minute save our Planet, but given our current lemming-like bent for fossil-fueled self-destruction, which we are unlikely to follow through on. Read More...