Urban Systems Modeling . . . , and Smart City Building?
See post in Sustainability 2030 Clips.
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See post in Sustainability 2030 Clips.
Urban Systems Modeling . . . , and Smart City Building? Read More »
The Case of Freiburg, Germany, cross post from Planetizen.
Universal Principles for Creating a Sustainable City? Read More »
See a regional ecological-economic design proposal for Appalachia.
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Email Promotion of 8-4-11. Web Registration and further info: click here. Greetings Scott, What could an understanding of the Living Building Challenge lead to in your community? Green leaders with varied backgrounds and hometowns all over the world are making use of the information offered in our 6-hour workshop to spark new conversations, create some
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Follow the tour via this blog site. Sustainable Cities of Northern Europe is a UC Davis Summer Abroad class. University students from the U.S. and Canada travel, learn and plan/design their way across Europe exploring how cities, neighborhoods and projects can be planned, designed, built and experienced in a more sustainable manner. The course is
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TNS Canada has pioneered a quick start approach to Integrated Community Sustainability Planning. In 6-8 months smaller to medium sized communities can complete an initial planning process and plan to begin implementation. The link to a new QuickStart course is at the bottom of the program description below. I participated in the regular ICSP course last year and there is a lot of transferable value for application in the U.S. It’s followed by a useful comment as well.
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A recent link in Sightline highlighted an article on Writing Sustainable Neighborhood Code in CrossCut (seattle/norwest-based public media), illuminated not only an innovative community stakeholder “roundtable” initiatve that is blazing a trail in implementing new sustainable neighborhood code and regulation reform, but a larger initiative to transform land use in Seattle. As such it’s worth watching. Highlights follow:
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The California Planning Roundtable’s (CPR’s) Reinventing the General Plan project, shows highly innovative, transformational potential. From a quick review of the site and their impressive work to date, featuring Ontario, San Diego, Sacramento, Marin County, and Truckee, they are off to a good start. Although the theme of sustainability is present, it is not as
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A new explain-all sustainability PAS report promises the capacity to benchmark sustainability in your community. That new report and a few other promising sustainability publications are featured in a 071511 email from APABookstore.com
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It depends on whether you bicycle near and with a lot of fossil-fuel-burning automobile traffic. Accumulating research is confirming a common-sense notion — breathing tailpipe emissions cannot be that good for you. In fact, it is bad for you. One short-term effect is that it reduces your heart rate variability–it’s capacity to quickly change it’s rate and respond to stress. Read the article!
My roughly written comment on the article follows:
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