Compared to canvas grocery bags or CFL light bulbs or even solar panels, larger "green infrastructure" projects such as roof gardens or permeable streets can be hugely expensive. It turns out, however, that they're actually not that expensive when comp... »
Even the name sounds idealistic: the Beacon Food Forest, an experiment in urban planting planned for land adjacent to a Seattle city park. The plan has attracted plenty of attention. But is a food forest practical in Seattle’s climate, not to mention o... »
For many if not for most people, cities are inextricably associated with pollution, but in reality, cities and metropolitan areas are key levers in energy conservation and the reduction of emissions and greenhouse gases. »
Imagine the plight of the urban planner, circa 1930. What was once the transportation mode for the rich has become de rigueur for the masses. Streets meant for horse and buggy now needed to transport hundreds of cars to and from work every day. Then, o... »
The United States' obesity crisis is bad enough as it is, but I contend that it is particularly unfortunate that we do not sufficiently recognize the extent to which these trends are caused by the shape of our built environment. These graphs tell the s... »
For more than four decades, the powerful engines that helped boost the Apollo 11 mission to the moon have rested in the Atlantic. Now Internet billionaire and space enthusiast Jeff Bezos wants to raise at least one of them to the surface. »
New maps show the distribution of green jobs across the 50 states and point to a a few correlations: Green jobs are more prevalent in higher income states, are more closely associated with education or human capital levels and are also more likely in s... »
The Sierra Club said Thursday it will try to block an energy company's plan to export liquefied natural gas to find new markets for the drilling boom that has flooded the Mid-Atlantic with natural gas. »
