Posts tagged Sustainability
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Breakfast links: New policies for the new year
Meters go to 10; Stop the bad planning, New York!; Feed the kids local food; One fewer house; Right way to be bright; More than just red, yellow, and green; What technology could do. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Looking to history
Historic Walter Reed; Independence from B Street; Do you know?; Year of Sustainability; 5 mph less, 40% fewer deaths; And…; Thanks, Stephen!. Keep reading…
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Whiny press abandons all analysis when it comes to fees
Reporters try to present arguments objectively and fairly, but that doesn’t seem to extend to fees, tolls, and taxes, when it’s apparently totally fine to write an article for a professional newspaper talking about how much a new charge “sucks.” Either that, or else during the holiday break, all the good reporters and editors go on vacation. Those… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Boxes and bags
Box of trash or standard contemporary?; Safeway taking another way; How are the bags?; BRAC bike lanes; Fun and games until it becomes criminal; Reading makes a comeback; Fake placard involved in NYC bomb scare. Keep reading…
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DC shoppers getting used to new bag law
JTS wrote, “I was just at the Giant on 8th street, and the policy seems to be having a positive impact already. “The cashiers are informing customers of the fee, and the customers in front of me (express line) just decided to carry the 3 or 4 items they had instead of using a bag. No stress, no complaints. In the five minutes in line, it seemed like probably 10 or 20 bags were not used… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Happy New Year
A growing city; Charles County sprawlway; The ridership is right; C for yourself; Busted!; Is that multi-state inter-agency cooperation I see?; What’s driving business?. Keep reading…
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Reusable bag incentive begins in two days
Friday won’t just start a new year and a new decade: It also will start a new era in environmental economic incentives as the nation’s first bag charge goes into effect in DC. Keep reading…
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DDOT presents Klingle trail progress
Planning for the Klingle Valley Trail is moving along, but there are still few details about some of the issues that most affect potential users. Keep reading…
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Growing possibilities: A new census of community gardens
A squadron of bicyclists armed with satellite mapping instruments swept through the District this summer on a unique mission: locate all of the city’s community gardens and interview garden managers for the first ever census of community gardens here. There are nearly 40 community gardens in DC, but until now, there has been no readily available estimate of the square… Keep reading…
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Will tax incentives make food deserts bloom?
With hunger spreading across America at levels unseen since the Great Depression and with low-income urban communities continuing to be disproportionately affected by a lack of access to healthy food, many are asking questions about the best way to reach communities without adequate food sources. One option that has been tried in many places, including Washington, DC, is… Keep reading…