Posts tagged Sustainability
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Lunch links: Metro breaking
Labor and Metro; ACT launches 270 transit campaign; Build part Yellow, part Green; Bus Really-slow Transit?; Whtie House farmer’s market; No longer in decline; Bike racks getting fixed; Metro employee struck by train. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Not easy being green
More soccer please; Latest delinquent landlord in Shaw: NPS; Another suburban office building is “greenest”; Even energy-saving features sometimes don’t; USPS assumes customers drive; Walking is Green(belt); Yellow over Green. Keep reading…
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Reburbia puts the future of suburbs on the catwalk
In “Eyes That Do Not See,” Le Corbusier noted that airplane designers were unable to achieve heavier-than air flight until they understood the underlying issues of aeronautics — until they had posed the problem correctly. Until the tinkerers stopped imitating birds and kites and began investigating lift in a scientific way, they just produced spectacular… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Dear Current, please get a real Web site
Sidewalks, assured; Don’t drive? You must not live here; These go to Elevenleytown; Tall TOD at PG Plaza?; Days since last injury: 1; Metro keeping its escalators; Cowening before trains; And…. Keep reading…
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Constructive stormwater management proposals emerge in Virginia
When the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) unveiled proposals for amended stormwater regulations this past spring, some observers were concerned that the stricter regulations would make denser development, and redevelopment of existing sites in particular, more expensive relative to low-density development. This would likely not bode well for smart… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Economic solutions, bureaucratic problems
Sluggers not hot on HOT; Yes, pricing existing lanes would be better; Get paid to move closer to work?; Washington Gas renegs on Capital City Diner; New private roads still create “silos”; Too much work to listen?; Now vs. then’s view of now. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Transit or traffic for lovers
Arlington v. Virginia; Virginia Railway Expansion; Shoulda coulda woulda; Seattle rejects bag fee; Float to the game; Walkability is money; Twelve feet; College Park wants in. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Crack the cycle
Metro mishaps; Researchers work on more accurate predictions; Pro-transit 270 letter making the rounds; Fruit is okay?; Stop the rage; The Franklin not-school; The Senate on infrastructure. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: In talks
Mount Vernon Square Garden?; A dome or a neighborhood?; Three years of Berliner; More concrete than crystal; New parks, cheap; If parking spaces could vote, they’d be set; Death and life of cute dresses. Keep reading…
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Green companies’ marketers miss the point
The Spectrum Condominium in downtown Falls Church markets itself as “a vibrant new eco-friendly condominium.” They tout the benefits of living in a walkable downtown with good bus service and near Metro: Keep reading…