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The fracking frenzy in North Dakota has boosted the U.S. fuel supply--but at what cost?
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trCalifornia drought 'a borderline catastrophe' in rural area
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California drought 'a borderline catastrophe' in rural area. Dwindling water supplies are rousing anxieties in rural communities across the state.
I'm thinking truckers could make a killing hauling Michigan snow to California about now.
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People St makes it way easier for community members to get a pedestrian plaza, mini park or bike parking approved. (RT @kaboom: Yes!
Good sense planning & design ONE, car-centricism ZERO.
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Before the burn: Downtown's Life Cube an inviting canvas for artists
Las Vegas Sun
Downtown's Life Cube is taking on a, well, life of its own.
We could all use more murals in our lives.
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RideScout co-founder Joseph Kopser would love if his transportation app were the last one you ever downloaded. Whereas most city transportation services offer their own app, RideScout collects all the services in a single interface.
Because you can never have enough apps.
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In a secret underground lair somewhere deep below Europe, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is hunched over a map of...
Bru ha ha ha ha ha. My bike is an instrument of Agenda 21.
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It turns out, we may be more social than we were 30 years ago — at least in public spaces.
Very cool story about revisiting a ground-breaking study of social interactions in NYC public spaces. How has technology impacted social interaction?
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Resilience is the ability to overcome adversity, cope with setbacks, and persevere in the face of trauma and deprivation. India Kandahar, Afghanistan The greatest glory in living lies not in neve...
A little perspective.
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The driver who hit a professional cycling team in Tucson last February has been sentenced to seven days in jail and two years probation. Rodney Kinkade, Jr.
This makes me want to get on my bike and run a bunch of pick-up trucks off the road. Take that justice! No wait... the snow will do that for me tonight anyway. When was the last time you heard of a cyclist stuck in a ditch?
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ReutersA new article by John Cawley in NBER Reporter, "The Economics of Obesity," poses an interesting question right at the top. Why study obesity like an economic problem, anyway?
There are two broad answers.
And who's brave enough to answer this question?
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(Phys.org) —The UK can celebrate the launch of its first electric bus routes, to swing into operation this month in Milton Keynes, where eight electric buses will be running, taking over a busy 'Number 7' 15-mile route, and covering two...
Nice.
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With a mix of homegrown chic, elegance and global innovation, Toronto architects are defining global trends.
Toronto is one of my favorite North American cities. And just a nine hour drive from my home town in northern Michigan.
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Alpha 1 Antitrypsin, Alpha-1 Foundation. English. Alpha-1 Foundation in Google Plus · Alpha-1 Foundation in Twitter · Alpha-1 Foundation in Facebook · magazine / brochures · donate · Alphas, Friends & Family ...
This report helped change how we all breathe.
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Loss of only grocer hurts rural Vinton County
Columbus Dispatch
View Slideshow Ashleigh Ferguson Claar The McArthur SuperValu store, Vinton County's only supermarket, closed on Sept.
Another food desert in the making?
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Michael Andersen: At long last, cycling is being supported by American business – not out of environmentalism but because it's delivering profit (Bike parking generates 3 times the amount of retail revenue than the same size car-parking
I just wonder if we can also mandate using those cool Dutch bikes.
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After record amounts of snow this year in Philadelphia, you could be excused for not wanting to see any more of it. But today's snow actually brought us some pretty cool ideas for public spaces and traffic safety improvements along E. Passyunk Avenue in South Philly.
Love this. Works the same for sidewalks too. Look at sidewalks in the summer, then watch where pedestrians actually walk in the winter. Jeffersonian, rectilinear, architecture's downfall.
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Creative placemaking and the arts. Via NEA.
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In the midst of the recession, millions of Americans began to "double up," in the language of demographers: Parents moved in with their children, recent college graduates returned home with their parents, unrelated families combined households,...
I understand this concept. We've decided to stay in our current, smallish, home for strategic financial reasons. I get it.
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Comparing forecasts with reality and why it's a problem for policymakers.
It's no wonder cities around the country continue to clamor for more road-building. They're relying on predictive data that is far from reality.
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All new developments should be required to discourage solo car trips, RAC says. (Bike-friendly sites a must - Yahoo!
As much time as we spend on issues of zoning and planning for building code compliance, why not start building in transportation code too? This article from Australia gives us a clue just how forward thinking community planning can be.
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For those of us earning ordinary money the corporate shuttle buses are the place that we see the inequality, and feel our twinge of envy, everyday.
Corporate shuttle debate? I know of no such things where I live and ride. But politics are always fascinating around transportation.
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The world can be divided into two kinds of drivers: Those that get over into a lane to exit or merge early (lineuppers) and those that zoom by until the last moment (sidezoomers), cutting the line in a sense.
Just in case you wanted to make sure you got the front of the queue as you approached a "right lane ends" sign on the road.
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A clean slate to reinvent downtown Las Vegas
VEGAS INC
Downtown is peppered with vacant lots, unlike many other major cities' urban centers, which are more fully developed.
I've always appreciated the view of Las Vegas through the lens of Stephen King's book The Stand. Two people are representative of good and evil. Guess which city Mr. Evil chooses to call home? So if there's a town that needs reinvention, this is it.
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'Citizen artist' spreads message of peace to neighborhoods
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Howard Aikens of Point Breeze walked the whole route after hearing Ms.
Art as inspiration and local economy leadership.
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“What do we really want from the businesses in our communities?...Perhaps we first need to ask: what kind of community do we want?
This is the first of a two-part essay that examines our understanding of The Commons.
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RT @mark_lynas: Harvard announces grid-scale battery storage breakthrough: http://t.co/azCBdsTY7T Flow battery: great news for clean energy!
Very cool science coming out of Harvard no less. This could be a game changer for solar and wind energy connected to the grid.
The real face of unbridled energy exploration and development. North Dakota is seeing the brunt of this right now. It's especially visible because it wasn't being done at all until recently. The oil and its derivatives being extracted from the Bakken Shale fields is staining these once pristene prairies. (Thanks to my friend Deb Wallwork for keeping us apprised of this ongoing story.)