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Transit Agencies Invest in Marketing for Success
Transit Agencies are increasingly investing in Marketing to boost ridership. Climate change is sometimes a focus.
The automobile industry spent about $21 billion on advertising in 2007, according to DM News. Clearly they would not spend this kind of money to convince us all that we can’t live without a car unless it actually worked. [...]
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Transfer of Development Rights Programs
Richard Register of Ecocity Builders has created a rendering of the de-urbanization of now sprawling Denver, CO. TDR could help achieve this end with the benefit of reducing vehicle miles traveled and thus, carbon emissions and restoring needed farmland.
When local governments want to encourage density and prevent or undo suburban sprawl, one of their [...]
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Ecocity Challenges
Freiburg is known as an ecocity. The newly built neighbourhoods of Vauban and Rieselfeld were developed and built according to the idea of sustainability. The citizens of Freiburg are known in Germany for their love of cycling and recycling.
This past December, as climate talks in Copenhagen commenced, I sat in talks in Istanbul listening [...]
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Vancouver Aims to be Greenest City in the World
Vancouver is already known for savvy city planning.
Vancouver’s Mayor Gregor Robertson recently announced an ambitious 10-year plan to make Vancouver the world’s greenest city by 2020. Robertson presented the plan to the “Gaining Ground-Resilient Cities” conference at the Vancouver Convention Center. Robertson says that Vancouver is still far too reliant on cars and on [...]
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Hidden Subsidies Fuel Climate Change
Denver is notorious for its urban sprawl.
At the G20, President Obama said he would phase out fossil fuel subsidies as a way to combat climate change. Recent reports from the International Energy Agency and other institutions point out the scale of those largely hidden subsidies and how they contribute to global warming.
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The Union of Concerned Scientists Climate 2030 Blueprint for the U.S.
The Union of Concerned Scientists recently released Climate 2030 Blueprint analyzes the economic and technological feasibility of meeting stringent targets for reducing global warming emissions, with a cap set at 26% below 2005 levels by 2020, and 56% below 2005 levels by 2030
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California’s Approach to Land Use and Climate Protection
The passing of Senate Bill 375 in California last year was a landmark occasion marking a new approach to land use and climate protection. The bill, authored by Senate President-Elect Darrell Steinberg, is the first law in the nation to tie billions of dollars in federal and state transportation funds to plans to shorten commutes, build sustainable communities and reduce global warming.
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Smart Growth and Sustainable Development on new U.S. Agenda
The Environmental Protection Agency is joining forces with the Department of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development to create a strategy for sustainable, smart growth in the US. The new partnership means that there will be a new focus on environmental issues when the nation’s housing and transportation needs are being considered.
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Transportation Emissions Dropped 5.2% in 2008
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) recently reported that CO2 emissions from U.S. transportation dropped 5.2% in 2008, the largest annual decline since 1990. EIA noted that motor gasoline accounted for 58.7% of the transportation-related CO2 emissions followed by diesel fuel, which accounted for 23.2% of transportation emissions.
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Curitiba: City Planning at its Best
Curitiba is the capital city of Paran, one of Brazil’s southernmost states. While Curitiba faces the same problems as other cities around the world – overcrowding, poverty, pollution and funding constraints – Curitba’s city planners have come up with some creative and inexpensive ways to address them.