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May 15, 2008
Posted by Rob Perks
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- coalmining, kentucky, mountaintopremoval
I had to reread this story to be sure it wasn't actually from The Onion. Taxpayer dollars going to spew propaganda to children about the wonders of coal and the benefits of MTR?Unbelievable. Sadly, outrageously, this is totally true. Yet...continued→
May 15, 2008
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice
, Green Enterprise
, Living Sustainably
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- affordablehousing, architecture, community, HOPE-VI, neighborhood, planning, publictransportation, smart-growth, smartgrowth, transit, transit-oriented-development
My friend David Dixon, and his Boston-based architecture firm, Goody Clancy, has been doing some fabulous smart growth work, and I’m here to give them a well-deserved pat on the back for it. I mention this because I’m off...continued→
May 6, 2008
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Solving Global Warming
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- BP, JamesBrown, NorthwestIndiana, pollution, tarsands, WhitingRefinery
James Brown famously exclaimed “Give the drummer some…”BP could learn a lot from the late, great, Godfather of Soul.Last week was a very good one for the British oil giant. Tuesday, BP announced that they had brought in a jaw-dropping...continued→
May 1, 2008
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Green Enterprise
, Health and the Environment
, Living Sustainably
, Solving Global Warming
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- affordablehousing, cities, cityparks, community, driving, green-building, greenbuilding, neighborhood, newyork, parks, subway, sustainability, sustainabledevelopment, transportation, walkability, walkable, walking
Last week my longtime NRDC colleague Eric Goldstein posted a blog entry highlighting five laudable environmental sites (green apples) and five awful ones (bad apples). Eric got it right as usual. I am particularly a fan of his because, like...continued→
April 21, 2008
Posted by Eric Goldstein in Environmental Justice
, Health and the Environment
, Living Sustainably
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- earthday2008, greenbuilding, greenschools, newyorkcity, publictransit, recycling, streettrees, urbanparks
For those of use who can remember it, Earth Day 1970 in New York was every much as watershed an event here as it was elsewhere in the country. Thirty-eight years ago this week, tens of thousands of New Yorkers...continued→
April 10, 2008
Posted by Rich Kassel in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Green Enterprise
, Health and the Environment
, Living Sustainably
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
, The Media and the Environment
, U.S. Law and Policy
- Tags:
- congestion, congestionpricing, mta, trafficcongestion, transit, transportation
By now, of course, anybody who has followed the saga of congestion pricing in New York knows the outcome: on Monday, the New York State Assembly failed to vote on the congestion pricing program, ensuring that it won’t go forward,...continued→
April 8, 2008
Posted by David Pettit in Environmental Justice
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- airquality, environmentaljustice, naturalgas, powerplants, solarenergy, southerncalifornia, windenergy
Last week, NRDC delivered a 60-day intent to sue letter to the South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD) in Southern California, contending they’re giving regional polluters a free pass on pollution levels and distributing bogus emission credits – sometimes in...continued→
April 6, 2008
Posted by Rich Kassel in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Health and the Environment
, Living Sustainably
, Moving Beyond Oil
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- congestionpricing, newyork, newyorkcity, trafficcongestion, transit
Mariano Rivera is taking the mound now, trying to do his magic to pull out a win...Crain's, the Washington Post, the NY Daily News, the NY Post are all telling various stories of last-minute negotiations, hallway discussions, and everything else...continued→
April 2, 2008
Posted by Rich Kassel in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Health and the Environment
, Living Sustainably
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
, The Media and the Environment
, U.S. Law and Policy
- Tags:
- Bloomberg, congestion, congestionpricing, dailypolitics, elizabethbenjamin, newyorkcity, quinn, trafficcongestion, transit, transportation
On Monday, the New York City Council passed, by a margin of 30-20, the congestion pricing bill, kicking off an intense week of lobbying for its passage in Albany.This was a huge victory for Mayor Michael Bloomberg and City Council...continued→
March 31, 2008
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice
, Living Sustainably
, The Media and the Environment
- Tags:
- architecture, cities, community, ecology, losangeles, urbanplanning
I'm so looking forward to reading Occidental College prof Robert Gottlieb's latest book, Reinventing Los Angeles: Nature and Community in the Global City (MIT Press, 2007). It promises as much cultural as environmental enlightenment, examining, as the publisher puts it,...continued→