Tue, February 9, 2010

Green Economy Around the Web

 

Brooklyn’s Mourning Rider Gives Cities a New Rule

Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago

If bicyclists keep asserting “rights” to zigzag across urban landscape regardless of lanes and traffic lights, we’ll add martyrs at a faster rate than we reduce carbon emissions. Jonathan Rule knows this all too well. A humble architect from Brooklyn now working in Spain, Rule has designed a…

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There’s an Organic Sucker at Every Rest Stop

Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago

Traveling on the Interstate, as I did today,  provides an acid reminder of how quickly people adapt false spending habits to support the delusion that living sustainably is easy. How people tell themselves that by spurning Starbucks-sized brands, they are pioneering a truly green marketplace. …

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HUD Has Money For Green Innovation

Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago

Back before we had nationwide paralyis in the housing market, many smart people worked on a stubborn problem in urban economies: too many poor people stayed too poor for too long. That’s still true, if less severe in some cities. And a solution that emerged in the Clinton administration is now…

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