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What's 'smart growth'? New web tool can help communities get the picture

January 21, 2009

Posted by Scott Dodd in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil

Tags:
charlotte, development, growth, neighborhoods, planning, smartercities, smartgrowth, transit

"Smart growth" isn't an easy term to explain. And I speak from experience here. For several years, I covered the growth and development beat at The Charlotte Observer, at a time when Charlotte, N.C., was one of the fastest-growing places...

Gas shortages in the Southeast could be a sign

September 24, 2008

Posted by Scott Dodd in Moving Beyond Oil

Tags:
charlotte, gasprices, hurricanes, peakoil, transportation

This past weekend, my wife and I visited Charlotte, N.C., where we used to live. Charlotte's the kind of spread-out, suburban city where you really can't get by without a vehicle, even when you're in town for just a couple...

Live from New York: It's Google Transit!

September 23, 2008

Posted by Scott Dodd in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil

Tags:
bicycling, google, newyorkcity, subways, transit, transportation

Two years after moving to the city, one of the things that helps me feel more like a real New Yorker is when out-of-towners stop me on the street or the subway and I'm able to give them detailed directions....

How did you celebrate World Carfree Day?

September 22, 2008

Posted by Scott Dodd in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
bicycling, commuting, gasprices, newyorkcity, transportation, worldcarfreeday

The president of South Korea biked to work today. Nearly 30,000 cyclists took to the streets of Taiwan's capital. European cities asked their residents to keep cars parked for the good of the planet. A European Commission spokeswoman says that...

Look Ma, no cars!

August 11, 2008

Posted by Scott Dodd in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil

Tags:
bicycling, newyorkcity, streets, summerstreets, transportation

 Just check out all that open pavement, with not a car in sight. And right in the middle of Manhattan, no less. Ain’t it beautiful? New York’s experiment with car-free streets -- closing down a well-traveled route through the heart...

What do jellyfish, drilling and whale blubber have in common?

August 4, 2008

Posted by Scott Dodd in Health and the Environment , Moving Beyond Oil , Reviving the World's Oceans , The Media and the Environment

Tags:
cleanenergy, drilling, globalwarming, jellyfish, newyorktimes, oceans, whaling

Answer: They’re black and white and read all over. Sunday’s New York Times was something of a bonanza (albeit a sobering one) for anyone interested in environmental news. In a front-page story, Elisabeth Rosenthal reports from Barcelona on the...

Scott Dodd
Scott Dodd
OnEarth.org News Editor
New York City
In 12 years as a newspaper reporter, I covered everything from hurricanes to highways to...
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