August 2011
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Climate Adaptation: An open letter to my readers... →
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Dear all,
My buddies bust my ass about being an environmentalist who “loves” big government. I get a lot of flack for it. Sometimes I’m dismissed as some lefty enviro-wingnut because of my willingness to support environmental regulations. Well, you know what? I do not love big government. I do…
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Taking the Blame: Who's at Fault in the...
There’s no way you can ignore the tension that exists between bikers, pedestrians, and drivers on the road (just take a look at this video). And this is especially true in a city as dense as New York, with 8 million people sharing streets, sidewalks, subway platforms and parks.
While I’m wholeheartedly an advocate of biking and walking over using cars (for too many reasons to list),...
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The Future, Without Malls
If I were to ask you to list symbols of American consumerism, I bet the words “shopping mall” would come to mind pretty quickly. And that’s because for the past 5 decades, shopping malls have been a dominant feature of the retail scene in a country that has more retail space than most. In 2009, NPR reported that the U.S. had 20 square feet of retail space per person (almost 7x as...
