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How Smart Is Your City?

July 14, 2009

Posted by Scott Dodd in Living Sustainably

Tags:
greenliving, planning, smartercities, transit, transportation, urbanism

Last week, Time magazine asked, "Why Are Southerners So Fat?" There's no simple answer, of course. Poverty, culture and climate all play a role in the South's high obesity rates. But one factor that's increasingly blamed by everyone from medical...continued

NBA and NRDC Team Up for Green Week

April 1, 2009

Posted by Scott Dodd in Living Sustainably

Tags:
basketball, greeningadvisor, greenliving, NBA, robertredford, sports

My March Madness bracket is in shambles. This weekend's Final Four games will be a terrible reminder that -- for the first time I can remember -- I failed to pick even one team correctly. But at least I've got...continued

Will New York City survive sea-level rise?

February 18, 2009

Posted by Scott Dodd in Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
adaptation, floods, globalwarming, greenliving, newyorkcity, sealevelrise, smartercities, subways

Sometimes in New York, you get surrounded by steel and glass and brick and brownstone and it's easy to forgot that you live on an island -- and not a particularly big island at that.Then it pours for one afternoon...continued

Share your resolutions for making 2009 the greenest year ever

December 29, 2008

Posted by Scott Dodd in Living Sustainably

Tags:
greenliving, greenyear, resolutions, twitter

In 2009, I will become a father. That's not a New Year's resolution. It's actually happening (gulp). My wife and I are expecting our first child in early March, so I know this year is going to be an eventful...continued

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