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Germany Imagines Suburbs Without Cars - NYTimes.com

Discussion of Freiburg suburb, Vauban, and its "car-free" environment:
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Street parking, driveways and home garages are generally forbidden in this experimental new district on the outskirts of Freiburg, near the French and Swiss borders. Vauban’s streets are completely “car-free” — except the main thoroughfare, where the tram to downtown Freiburg runs, and a few streets on one edge of the community.
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Tags: suburbia, cars, green_strategies, vauban, germany on 2009-05-17 and saved by 3 people -All Annotations (3) -About

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affordable green housing (podcast.mov (video/quicktime Object))

Excellent short film about biophilia and how to make sure it's satisfied in urban environments, with specific reference to one project by developer Jonathan Rose (of Jonathan Rose Companies).

Tags: biophilia, cities, urbanism, green_strategies on 2009-04-09 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Green Cities, Brown Suburbs by Edward L. Glaeser, City Journal Winter 2009

Ed Glaeser makes the point that cities are much greener than non-urban areas, all things considered. Your country or suburb carbon footprint is huge compared to your urban carbon footprint.

Tags: edward_glaeser, city_journal, urbanism, green_strategies, suburbs, cities on 2009-03-10 and saved by 3 people -All Annotations (18) -About

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Urban RainCatchers Gazette: Frontpage

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Judging by what's covered in the media, it would appear that so-called "green" developers are leading the way when it comes to sustainable water and stormwater practices. But there is plenty of evidence to debunk that myth.

This website will showcase innovation in the public sector, leadership from the grassroots, inspiration from NGOs and - above all - partnerships that empower citizens to become part of the solution to floods, droughts and stormwater problems.
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Tags: raincatchers, urban_design, water, stormwater_management, green_strategies, sustainability on 2008-12-27 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Business Guide - David Suzuki Foundation

"New guide to cutting greenhouse gas emissions shows how businesses can save millions and the environment." Portal page for downloading the document(s), etc.

Tags: environment, ecology, economics, business, david_suzuki, green_strategies on 2008-12-01 -All Annotations (0) -About

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The Gospel of Green | CBC News: the fifth estate

CBC portal page for a program on Germany's shift to a green(er) infrastructure/ economy, w/ focus on Hermann Scheer, parliamentarian who helped make it happen.
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Hermann Scheer is a German parliamentarian who has turned ideas into practical solutions. Because of the laws that bear his name, Germany is now a solar-paneled, windmill-building, job-producing green powerhouse of the industrialized world. Fifteen per cent of Germany's electricity now comes from renewable energy systems. Scheer predicts that, if his country continues on this course, that number could be 100 per cent by 2030.
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Tags: cbc, hermann_scheer, environment, economy, green_strategies, germany on 2008-11-21 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Protein® Feed | To Tackle Global Warming, California Takes Aim at Sprawl

Interesting short notice by Adam Stein about California's proposal to "pass legislation that would harmonize regional planning efforts with the state’s overarching goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The most ambitious anti-sprawl legislation in the country, the bill seeks to coordinate housing, transit, and commercial development to reduce the impact of growth on the environment."

Stein reviews this in relation to Robert Bruegmann's "Sprawl: A compact history," which he happens to be in the middle of reading. Some interesting thoughts here on whether or not sprawl can really be mandated away. Also, not mentioned directly, but I can't help but hear Jane Jacobs, too, warning about restrictive overplanning...

Tags: sprawl, worldchanging, urbanplanning, california, green_strategies, robert_bruegmann on 2008-09-17 -All Annotations (6) -About

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My Other Car is a Bright Green City - WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future

via CEOs for Cities, an article by Alex Steffen, which argues for dense, urban communities that will help curb (literally) car use. \n\nFrom his intro preamble: "This is a rough draft of a long essay about why I believe building compact communities should be one of America's highest environmental priorities, and why, in fact, our obsession with building greener cars may be obscuring some fundamental aspects of the problem and some of the benefits of using land-use change as a primary sustainability solution."

Tags: alex_steffen, cars, cities, environment, green_strategies, sustainability, urbanism, worldchanging on 2008-01-25 and saved by 8 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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