Posted by Scott Dodd in Living Sustainably
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→
Posted by Scott Dodd in Living Sustainably
New York magazine featured a great story last week on school overcrowding in Manhattan. What struck me -- aside from concerns about how my own kid might fare -- was this passage about the city's failure to anticipate that New...continued→
Posted by Scott Dodd in Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
Everyone seems to be having fun reading the revamped whitehouse.gov website today and seeing what it says about their top priorities.After writing about the challenges of communicating smart growth earlier today, I was curious what the new Obama administration would...continued→
Posted by Scott Dodd in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil
"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...continued→
