Tag: urban
group name: sustainability
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May 22, 2006 12:01 AM EDT --
Americans seem to love to complain about gas prices, but few seem willing to do something about it.
Oh, we'll point fingers - it's the fault of greedy oil companies, we say. We might even . . . more
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June 02, 2006 01:08 PM EDT --
Hi folks,
This is not an article so much as a topic I'm starting here. As part of an exploration into how to make sustainability something that can work for the average American, let's discuss . . . more
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June 09, 2007 09:51 PM EDT --
Since I have a nice back deck for the first time, I've taken up container gardening. Any tips or tricks you have to share would be particularly appreciated!
Our deck is on the second floor of . . . more
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October 27, 2007 09:29 AM EDT --
The big news items this week was the outbreak of costly fires in California. That's not "the environment", that's just a natural disaster, right? Wrong. The California wildfires of 2007 . . . more
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June 18, 2007 03:33 PM EDT --
My wife and I have just moved to a tiny house, part of a pattern of shrinking we’ve been going through. When we lived in Indiana rent was cheap and we had an enormous apartment with space that . . . more
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June 05, 2007 01:50 AM EDT --
Our apartment building's small urban garden is divided into three raised beds, officially dubbed the herb bed, the strawberry bed, and the veggie patch. Actually, several types of plants are mixed . . . more
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May 27, 2006 04:23 PM EDT --
This is going to be a bit of an experiment. Over the next year, I'm going to publish on Gather the written half of my Master's thesis for architecture. (Given the degree, I'll be doing a bunch . . . more
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February 16, 2008 06:41 AM EST --
For more than a year, a panel of 18 engineers, technologists and futurists looked at ways to improve life on Earth. They came up with 14 Grand Engineering Challenges , featured at the National Academy . . . more
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February 28, 2007 10:25 PM EST --
Roads have hidden costs, side-effects that harm communities and public health. Nevertheless, choosing highways first has been the American paradigm for at least the last 50 years. In these days of . . . more
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September 10, 2007 11:06 PM EDT --
When I was a teenager, in an Indiana town, we had a unique way of getting around: walking and bicycling. This was in the days when there were relatively few cars, when kids would never think of getting . . . more
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August 25, 2006 02:13 PM EDT --
The fact of inner-city poverty and racial isolation often comes to us in the form of statistics. Too often, they make us feel overwhelmed and hopeless. The pictures from New Orleans in the days following . . . more
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July 02, 2008 12:17 AM EDT --
Since I moved back to the small town I live in, just twenty-eight miles outside of Boston, I have been wondering about a fascinating tree that seems to be growing in the general area. I first came . . . more
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March 04, 2008 12:15 AM EST --
I am pretty passionate about certain issues where our environment is concerned, with the crimes of the nuclear industry at the top of my list. I can date my environmental activism back over 30 . . . more
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December 03, 2007 09:10 PM EST --
A wise man once said to his daughter:
Anyone can find peace and well-being in a gorgeous natural setting. A truly accomplished person can be at peace and be well no matter where she is in the world. . . . more
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November 29, 2006 07:29 AM EST --
A raptor, a hawk, made our Cambridge neighborhood it's hunting ground yesterday. We don't often see birds of prey but RG noticed some pigeon feathers floating gently down, spiraling like pinwheels . . . more
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May 24, 2007 03:49 PM EDT --
We all know about cork which is used as stoppers in wine bottles but or many years cork has been used as an underleyment beneath ceramic and hardwood flooring. The reason for this is to help make those . . . more
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October 08, 2007 07:04 PM EDT --
This past weekend I embarked on a tour of solar homes in the Washington, DC area, which lets you see how real people use trend-setting environmental technology. The tour’s most prominent feature . . . more
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February 24, 2007 10:15 AM EST --
The opposition to industrial wind power has been given a bad name by the industry, politicians and an uninformed media.
With this blog, our hope is to establish a dialog with others that believe . . . more
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November 08, 2006 11:59 AM EST --
Steven Johnson, author of "The Ghost Map." says it's good that more people are living in urban areas. Traditional cities - not sprawling cities, that is. He maintains that dense urban settlements . . . more
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May 25, 2007 05:59 PM EDT --
Blown In Cellulose Insulation:
Blown in wet cellulose insulation is made from recycled newspaper, basically paper pulp. This is an excellent form of insulation for a frame built house. The . . . more
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