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If we're talking about transportation, the best thing a city can do is densify as quickly as it can. That needs to be said every time this issue... →
One of the most unfortunate side effects of the urban activism of the '60s and '70s is the belief that development is wrong and that fighting... →
The brutal reality is that newer, more sprawling suburbs - and especially the cheap boom-years exburbs - aren't just a bit unsustainable... →
There are plenty of people out there talking about how difficult it is for some of us to just deal with all the stuff we already have, from packed... →
We already have many of the technologies and tools that we need to build a sustainable future. What we don't have is a new way of thinking, and... →
We don't know yet how to build a society which is environmentally sustainable, which is shareable with everybody on the planet, which promotes... →
When the Internet really first started to hit, people felt this would be the death blow: after suburbs and long commutes and television and the death... →
People - especially the geeks who created it - have tended to look at the Internet as something that's hermetically sealed: there's the... →
Saying the Tech Bloom is not commercially driven is like saying Mother Teresa had an interest in the poor.
Cabbies in particular seem to like discussing the fate the Earth.
Carbon zero simply means that the emissions you are releasing either are zero or balance out to zero.
If nothing else, the Internet allows people to put their ideas out there and let the world decide whether they're worth paying attention to.
It is very possible to have lives that are just as prosperous, and nicer, that use 5 percent of the fossil fuels and virgin materials we do now. But... →
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