Posts tagged Environment
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Breakfast links I: Bikes, parks, and parking bikes
Stop it, guys; Truck hit by cyclist, poor truck; Congressmen spend more time at the mall than the Mall; Recreation? That’s not what parks are for!; Which neighborhood will get extremely green?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: In the east and the south
Greenmonston; Now the “rural until a developer shows interest” tier; MARC-oriented development at Bowie State; Not so minor; What are DDOT’s streetcar plans?; DCPL in the now; Then and now, overlaid; Atkins or South Beach road diet?. Keep reading…
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Time to ground the Washington Flyer
Travelers to and from Dulles airport probably wonder why there is a monopoly taxi service, the Washington Flyer, serving the airport. I am aware of only one other major US airport that has a monopoly taxi service. With rising concerns about climate change and the DC area’s status as a non-attainment area for air pollution, the millions of empty miles taxis drive due to this anachronistic… Keep reading…
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“Best Cities” rankings push “picket fence” ideal
Releasing lists of rankings has become a sure-fire way for magazines to drive readership. After all, who can resist seeing how their city, college, company, or favorite celebrity rates? City rankings have particularly proliferated, with many magazines and nonprofits creating rankings purporting to choose the “Best Places to Live” or “Greenest Cities.”… Keep reading…
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Ten ideas and many more in the Policy Greenhouse
This morning, the DC Policy Greenhouse discussed innovative ideas for making DC more environmentally sustainable. Keep reading…
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Street cleaning tickets have a real purpose
Sometimes, the most heroic of politicians get fooled by proposals that sound like they’ll save the world but turn out to be terrible policy. The political organizers-in-training running mock superhero campaigns for DC Mayor fell into this trap, as many of them hastily jumped on a proposal from Adam Green Goblin to eliminate street cleaning tickets in DC. Keep reading…
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Policy Greenhouse proposal: Urban canopy and market mechanisms
Tomorrow, ten people and groups will present ideas for “high-impact environmental solutions” for DC at the 2009 Policy Greenhouse sponsored by DC Councilmember Mary Cheh. I have been asked to present my proposal for a portfolio standard (a kind of cap-and-trade system) with market-price trading to increase DC’s urban canopy. Keep reading…
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Stormwater management should work with, not against, Smart Growth
Virginia is updating statewide stormwater regulations. A draft is open for public comment until August 21, 2009. Some people are concerned that the stricter caps on nutrient loads, as currently written, will promote low-density development and ultimately hurt the water quality and quantity of runoff in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Decongesting our politics and our roads
Barry back in the news; We’re still riding, still need Metro; Bus locations copyright NextBus?; Chicago parked itself into a corner; It’s working for Philly; Paging Jim Graham; Paging Barbara Mikulski; Just National?. Keep reading…
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Weekend reading: (Auto)mobility and the environment
Freeways bad for pregnant women; Better stormwater management in Virginia; Popular ART; Freako press coverage of crashes; Parking pressures at Eastern Market; Gabe on video. Keep reading…