Posts tagged Environment
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Breakfast links: Running into walls
Anti-soccer or just generally anti-people?; Carnage in Prince George’s; Groups want smaller, greener White Flint; Potomac Yard Metro Alternative Analysis; Can BRT be great?; That’s not treading lightly; CirculatorTube. Keep reading…
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Live chat: DDOE Director George Hawkins, Tuesday at 2 pm
Tomorrow at 2 pm, Greater Greater Washington will host George Hawkins, Director of the District Department of the Environment. DDOE measures air and water pollution, helps conserve wildlife and fisheries, manages storm water runoff, encourages proper disposal of waste, encourages efficient use of energy in buildings through energy audits and weatherizing programs,… Keep reading…
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Weekend reading: Bikes, trikes and automobiles
Bikes becoming fashionable in NYC; Arlington pushes trikes; Montgomery pushes cars; No eating unless you’re a cop; Lewis calls out the antis; What’s wrong with Franklin Square?; Rail should replace short flights; Short buildings equal job sprawl; Korea has “women-only” parking spaces; Bags for the City. Keep reading…
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Maryland creates “Clean Energy Center” in auto-dependent location
This looks like an April Fool’s joke, but isn’t. On Tuesday, Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley announced that the new Maryland Clean Energy Center will be locate in a remote part of Rockville far from any transit, which will require all visitors to drive, adding to traffic, energy consumption, and pollution. The new center will be a quasi-governmental nonprofit… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: It’s not easy pretending to be green
“Green” SOLEA pushing car use; Air quality, pshaw!; Get your bike commuter benefit, as long as you never ride transit; More trains for Virginia; Can you CNU?; Union bus-ting in Fairfax?; States can do anything as long as it’s not for bicycles. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Fit and flinty
Your bag needs a workout; Putting your MARC on White Flint; Crowdsourcing your future condo’s shade of green; De-sprawling in Flint; Mini links. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Full spaces, empty spaces
That’s a few bikes; Another $2 mil for the empty garage; To raze or not to raze?; Living in a city is better for the environment (but not so much in DC); Maryland’s streets are especially dangerous; Dean hates Metro delays, platform dawdlers; We’re lookin’ at you, SEPTA; PG to United: build your own soccer stadium. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: We’re here, we’re urban
Hopefully not just like the Pentagon; Life, liberty, happiness and the ability to build sprawl?; Crosswalks aren’t temporary loading zones; Commute correlation computation; Seattle starts curbside composting; Mini links. Keep reading…
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Preservation and Smart Growth can be friends, not rivals
Kaid Benfield, NRDC’s Smart Growth director, looks at the mistrust between Smart Growth environmentalists and preservationists. On the one hand, he points out, some of the most walkable communities are also our most historic, from Paris to Capitol Hill. On the other hand, preservation also sometimes becomes a tool to oppose sustainable neighborhoods, like the effort to… Keep reading…
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Hyattsville: the next Bethesda, or the next River Terrace?
Hyattsville has seen a great deal of promising development in the last few years. The crown jewel, the Hyattsville Arts District, has inspired the moniker “the new Bethesda,” insinuating good houses, potential for retail, and transit access. It’s one place in Prince George’s County where elements of transit oriented development are starting to flourish. Keep reading…