Posts tagged Sustainability
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Breakfast links: Moving right through
Klein reveals stimulus grant priorities; Drive-thru, not bike-thru; Metro route choice survey back; Construction closes both sides of 6th Street; Banning throwing away clean bags?; Green buildings versus green cities; What do we do about crime?. Keep reading…
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Dinner links: Save the planet
Streetlights of the future; 30-plus years behind the times: NPS of course; DC gets a B on trees; Have Obama’s first 100 days greened DC?; Energy efficiency stimulus will go to solar panels and bags; U Street hotel gets a little shorter; 5th and Mass gets a little safer; 1904 book promotes Columbia Heights; Hugs and helmets. Keep reading…
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What’s a tax, what’s a fee, and what’s just a shell game
According to the City Paper, the DC Council has removed the “streetlight fee,” and will find $12 million elsewhere. The “fee” would have charged electric customers a flat rate of $4.25 a month for residential customers, $16.75 a month for commercial customers, and $42 a month for others. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Not spending the money
Will Metro give money back while cutting service?; Fenty not spending meter increase money; T4A to Congress: save transit; Huge unused runway, or great rail line?; Benning on track for tracks; NYC may require “green retrofits”; 11 transit success stories; Bad BRAC bike setup still static; LaHood gets bicycling; PW-DC ferry in testing; Zipcar managing governmental car sharing. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: SmarTrip, the environment, Japan, and more
SmarTrip Web reload, autoload coming; Metro MasterCard: priceless?; Chicago real-time bus info spurs app competition; Environmentalist except in your backyard; Break out the white paint; Japan’s roads to nowhere; Streets are different in Japan, too; Lewis, Kojo talk big box reuse; Navarro probably wins District 4; Arts event for city’s elite excludes emerging arts. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Greener except on the Green Line
Uncutting transit; No Metro after late Nats games?; Good job Cavan!; FOX supports transit yesterday; Moran introduces national bag fee; More for the Mall; Vehicle hits man, reporter ignores driver; Too aggressive; UMD deletes garages; How about zig-zags?; Fenty’s $4,000 bike and other facts; Shopping to housing in Germantown; Not what we meant, Mendo. Keep reading…
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Frontline examines imperiled watersheds and the Arlington solution
Last night, PBS’s Frontline aired a program about the threatened Chesapeake Bay. “More than three decades after the Clean Water Act, iconic American waterways like the Chesapeake Bay and Puget Sound are in perilous condition and facing new sources of contamination,” they write. Our health and food sources depend on these coastal areas, but new pollutants are… Keep reading…
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Live chat with DDOE Director George Hawkins
Hello and welcome to our live chat with George Hawkins, Director of the District Department of the Environment. Please feel free to settle in and submit your questions. We’ll be getting started at 2pm. Keep reading…
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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…