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Environment & Ecology: Courtroom Curbing Cars, Parkour and Historic Preservation

May 2, 2013
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ENVIRONMENT & ECOLOGY Court Rules Cities Fail on Air Pollution, Need to Ban Cars Guardian UK, via: @urbandata   The UK faces European fines and British cities may have to ban cars to dramatically reduce harmful effects of air pollution
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Environment and Ecology: Water Innovation, Stradivarius, Trash for Energy

May 1, 2013
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ENVIRONMENT & ECOLOGY Golf Club Could Be Used for Flood Control Houston Chronicle   Now that the Clear Lake City Water Authority has presented a master plan for transforming the former Clear Lake Golf Club at 1202 Reseda Drive into a flood-control facility, it will focus this year on creating conservation easements for planting and habitat creation.
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Environment & Ecology: Evolving Mice, China's Lost Rivers, Oil Dependence

April 30, 2013
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ENVIRONMENT & ECOLOGY New York City Mice Evolving Treehugger   Maybe Charles Darwin didn’t have to sail all the way to the Galapagos islands after all.
Read On   New Tool Helps Plan Greener Cities Science Alert   Australian citizens can become more involved in planning their cities with wildlife in mind thanks to a new tool developed by researchers at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions (CEED).
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Environment & Ecology: Making Green Housing Affordable, Bicycle as Catalyst of Nature Conservation, How to Preserve Open Space

April 29, 2013
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ENVIRONMENT & ECOLOGY Making Green Housing Affordable  Al Jazeera   What comes to mind when you think about green communities? I find many people think about technology - solar panels, wind turbines, or rapid public transit.
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Transport: Chinese Transit Excess, Fixing LA's 405, Cap&Trade Transit Funding, Transit & Traffic, Lease Airport To Build Rail

April 26, 2013
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TRANSPORT Chinese Cities are Building Metros They Might Not Need  The Economist   NOT many global cities of nearly 9m people lack an underground line, but until the end of last year the eastern city of Hangzhou was one of them.
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Environment & Ecology: Fixing CEQA, Urban Lawns & Greenhouse Gases, Grass & Flood Prevention, Texas-OK Water War

April 26, 2013
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ENVIRONMENT & ECOLOGY California Mayors Want CEQA Fixed  Los Angeles Daily News   As mayors of two of California's largest cities, we've joined with other large city mayors including San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, and Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido, to call for a modernization of one of California's oldest and most important environmental laws, the California Environmental Quality Act, or…
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Environment & Ecology: Sprawl & Flooding, The Water Dilemma, Highway Costs & Health, Amazon Cloud Formation

April 25, 2013
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ENVIRONMENT & ECOLOGY How Sprawl Made Midwestern Floods Worse  The Atlantic Cities   As I write, places like Clarksville, Missouri, and Grand Rapids, Michigan, are under water, having been hit by severe rains and consequent flooding over the last week.
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Transport: Oregon Wants Light Rail Or No Bridge, VMT Of Rural Vs Urban Drivers, NOLA Streetcar Expansion Plans, First BRT Corridor In Rio

April 24, 2013
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TRANSPORT Oregon Will Kill CRC If It Doesn't Include Light Rail  Seattle Times   Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber's office says a proposed $3.4 billion Columbia River bridge will die if Washington state tries to remove light rail from the project.
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Urban Issues: Renting More Popular, NYC Affordability, Zoning & Crime, Economy Will Be Urban & High Tech, Paying Cash For Homes

April 24, 2013
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URBAN ISSUES Energy Companies Choose Katy for Relocation  Houston Chronicle   It is no secret the energy industry is booming and creating jobs across the board in most every company even closely associated with oil and gas.
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Environment & Ecology: Can Green Thinking Be In A Straight Line?

April 24, 2013
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ENVIRONMENT & ECOLOGY Can Green Thinking Be in a Straight Line?  Human Transit   As people who value the durability of human civilization celebrate Earth Day, here is a question they might think about.
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