Posts tagged Environment
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Breakfast links: What’s in a number?
How far can you get in 15 minutes?; 85-year-old man killed; Hit-and-run driver avoids felony charge; How CaBi handled the insanity; Coke gives $50,000 toward Mall rehab; Ballston looks to create BID; Dulles Metro stop could ruin viewshed?; EPA attacks manicured lawns; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Step up on the streets
MPD ticketing distracted drivers at record rate; New York City enforcing speed limit, bike laws; Arena Stage reopens tomorrow; Infill moves forward; A new Metro map?; Not so much will change under Gray; MoCo Council on pedestrian safety; No more helmet hair; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Haven’t got it covered
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Breakfast links: Where it’s big
Where are the big apartment buildings?; I cannot tell a lie; Metro wants your input; Brown asked to resign; Reduce blight and close the budget gap; The big, greener apple; More than tunnels. Keep reading…
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“The Polluters” reveals the history of industrial pollution
When I was a teenager, my mother worked at a chemical plant in Wilmington, Delaware. When she told me about her work, she emphasized the safety procedures that the plant followed. Many of the procedures were due to the ongoing environmental cleanup in and around the site. Before 1970, there was little in the way of environmental standards for industrial sites in… Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: DC gets no respect
Chaffetz wants to rule your life; Rosslyn’s tallest building, you mean; A greener, more walkable 14th Street; Bye bye bottles (on campuses); Before there were bike lanes; 1 year and counting on transpo bill; Avoid biased language. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Fewer trains, more cars
Longer trains on Red Line; Women’s History Museum moves forward; Scrambling in Northern Virginia; More bike lanes, not in Chevy Chase; Convention Center hotel in Shaw; Clean the Anacostia; Hooking up on P Street; Taking on Buy America. Keep reading…
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Is buying a new car greener than buying used?
About a year ago I was at a conference where the keynote speaker dispensed the conventional wisdom that buying a used car is more environmentally friendly than buying a new one, even something like a hybrid. Seems like a no-brainer, right? Manufacturing a new car requires enormous mining, manufacturing, transportation and other costs and energy inputs, while a used car… Keep reading…
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Could carbon credits fund bike-sharing systems?
A few weeks ago at an angel-investment presentation, I had the fortune of meeting the founders of Philadelphia-based CityRyde, bike-sharing consultants who are launching a platform called “Inspire” to facilitate the exchange of carbon credits between bike-sharing agencies and carbon producers (or investors). What the guys at CityRyde (a competitor of MetroBike,… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Endangered peds, bikes and parking spaces
Why Prince Georgians jaywalk; Cyclist hit on Clarendon Boulevard; Van Ness project wants no parking; DC plans climate action; DDOT parking meter pilot survey; Nightlife at heart of ANC contests; Women lead surge in urban biking; Obama’s helmet is effeminate, cowardly. Keep reading…