Articles tagged “Urban Planning”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

The World's Biggest Bike Share By Michelle Kay, NaturallySavvy.com IN Tech & Transport Jun 13 2011 This Chinese bike share puts all other bike share programs to shame. + READ MORE

Get Food from Right Under Your Nose with Urban Gardening By NaturallySavvy.com IN Food & Health Apr 5 2011 Create a connection with how your food is produced. + READ MORE

Coyotes Put to Work in Cities By Rachel Cernansky IN Work & Connect Jan 17 2011 Think you've heard about strange methods of rodent control? Think again. + READ MORE

Travel With Piers Morgan: Growing Sustainability in the World's Most Unsustainable Places By Rachel Cernansky IN Travel & Outdoors Jan 12 2011 A quick look at what's sustainable and what's not in three of the cities Piers Morgan will hit this season. How much do you know about major cities' sustainability around the globe? + READ MORE

NYC to Require Biodiesel Heat, and 3 Other Ways the Big Apple is Going Green By Rachel Cernansky IN Tech & Transport Oct 12 2010 Starting next October, all heating oil sold in New York City will have to be at least two percent biodiesel. + READ MORE

Is Your City a Smart City? By Rachel Cernansky IN Work & Connect Aug 13 2010 NRDC has just named 22 "smarter cities" around the U.S. with the strongest environmental record on everything from energy use to food security. + READ MORE

How to Build an ARTfarm By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Home & Garden Jul 13 2010 The nonprofit design collective AFHny Studio is helping a Bronx neighborhood build an art installation that's also a farm. Here's how you can support their work (and dream up an art farm of your own!). + READ MORE

It's a Truck! It's a Farm! (And Now, It's Going To Be a Movie.) By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Travel & Outdoors Jun 11 2010 The makers of KING CORN have a new documentary in the works — about the crops they're raising in the bed of an '86 Dodge pick-up truck. + READ MORE

Manual for Weather and Water Created for Scientists in Developing Countries By Jaymi Heimbuch IN Work & Connect Jun 8 2010 For engineers and professionals managing water supplies in developing countries but lack access to solid weather data, predicting the weather, and therefore the systems built to deal with things like floods, is problematic. That's why climate scientists are creating a manual for water use in countries with less access to information. + READ MORE

Deposit on Cigarette Butts? Recycling Program Proposed for New York By Rachel Cernansky IN Work & Connect May 26 2010 If a recently-proposed bill passes, New York will soon have a cigarette butt recycling program that would collect a one-cent deposit on every cigarette. + READ MORE

THINK North America "EV Index" Tells The US What Cities Are Most Ready for Electric Cars By Seth Leitman IN Tech & Transport Apr 23 2010 The electric car company developed this index to measure which markets are most likely to begin and benefit from the transition to electric vehicles. + READ MORE

Meet Jessica Schweifel, Founder of Root for Trees By Jessica Root IN Work & Connect Mar 11 2010 Here's an organization any nature loving urban dweller can support: Root for Trees. The New York City non-profit uses art and other creative campaigns to raise environmental awareness-through trees. The gorgeously green, oxygen rich gems that are so needed yet so lacking here in the concrete jungle. + READ MORE

No Reap Till Brooklyn: BK Farmyards Reconnects Farmers and Consumers By Mickey Z. IN Food & Health Dec 26 2009 BK Farmyards mission is to bring communities together around the dinner table: our educational agenda includes eating seasonally, growing food locally, storing and preparing food, species biodiversity, and food democracy. + READ MORE

How to Enjoy the Changing, Falling Leaves the Eco-friendly Way By Mickey Z. IN Travel & Outdoors Sep 25 2009 On an over-paved planet, falling leaves often don't get to complete their cycle. + READ MORE

10 Ways to Make Your Street More Green, and Your Green More Street By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Sep 10 2009 Green is not nerdy. Green is not un-cool. Green can even be street. + READ MORE

In Denver Today? Go Plant A Tree! By Rachel Cernansky IN Travel & Outdoors Sep 9 2009 The Monolith music festival will be filled with the hottest in music and the greenest in green--including planting live trees in downtown Denver. + READ MORE

Arm Yourself with Subversive Environmental Weapons: Seed Balls By Brian Merchant IN Travel & Outdoors Apr 21 2009 The history of environmentalism is rich with innovation?revolutionary environmental journalism from Rachel Carson, guerrilla gardening in the '70s, the bold organizing and activism of early Greenpeace, up to the prescient "green jobs" advocating of Van Jones are all fine examples of those dedicated to green causes finding new ways to bring unobserved issues to light. And we've always relied on an ever-growing arsenal of green 'weapons', if you will, to help us in the good fight: from the hoe and rake to seeds to the protest banner, the peaceful tools of the environmentalist have well served the cause over the years. + READ MORE

You Can Grow 100 Lbs of Potatoes in a 4 Ft Box By Brian Merchant IN Home & Garden Apr 15 2009 Who says you need a huge garden to grow a whole lot of potatoes? The most innovative thing about this project is how you build the box while the potatoes grow, to maximize yield while minimizing space. Basically, you start by laying the foundation?four wooden pillars at the corner of your box-to-be and one layer of wood... + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Urban Farm By Mickey Z. IN Food & Health Apr 10 2009 In our excitement to spread the green word, it's easy to forget that many Americans don't have the opportunity to engage. "Forget organic and locally grown food?in America's poorest urban neighborhoods, it's hard to find any affordable fruits and vegetables at all," writes Tracie McMillan in Mother Jones Magazine. "Six grocery stores serve South Los Angeles' population of 688,000. West Oakland has no supermarkets, but close to 60 liquor stores. + READ MORE

Join The Livable Streets Initiative and Green Your City By David DeFranza IN Tech & Transport Apr 9 2009 What are the streets in your neighborhood like? Are the sidewalks wide and accessible? Do speed bumps help curb heavy-footed drivers? Are they well-lit, full of vendors, and friendly to cyclists? If not, do these questions sound like foolish fantasies? Well, with a little work, all of these things can become a reality in even the most car-centric cities. The Livable Streets Initiative is making it happen, but they need your help. + READ MORE