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Jan 07th
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Local Government, Tribe Win Drilling Lawsuit
Shell Oil can't drill off the north coast of Alaska, after a US Ninth Circuit Court ruling in favor of an Inuit commission and a local government lawsuit. The court's decision cancelled the multinational oil company's drilling permit, stating the Department of Interior did not take a "hard look" at potential oil spills, damages to whales, and the resulting disruptions to indigenous Inupiat people.Shell was given a permit by the U.S. Minerals Management Service in February after buying explorator... Read more...
Bay Area Goes Electric
San Francisco Bay Area local governments have announced a billion dollar investment in infrastructur...
Philadelphia: Working to be the Next Great City
After years of clean-up, Philadelphia has ambitious but practical plans for the future, with water i...Rochester Bus System Turns a Profit
Regional Transit Service in Rochester, NY expects to show another profit this year, its third in a r...ClimateWise, Business Smart
Kathy Collier, Environmental Planner and ClimateWise Coordinator, talks to Lia Ayley about Fort Collins’ ClimateWise programLia Ayley: How did the ClimateWise... Read more...
New Context: New Possibility
Peter Block says sustainable communities are impossible without a strong social fabric. A strong social fabric comes from effective conversations, and local gov... Read more...Waterless Toilets Save Big
A 30,000-sq. ft. building normally uses about 7,000 gallons of water a day, much of that going straight down the toilet. But the highly efficient C. K. Choi Buil... Read more...Greeley, CO: Water Efficiency Upgrade
The Greeley Conservation Program has worked to make City of Greeley facilities more water efficient. In 2006, auto shut-off showerheads were installed at the Gre... Read more...The Economics of What Matters
What has become of the pursuit of happiness? The promise of America, as penned by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, is “...all men are crea... Read more...Hexayurt
Far from his home in Reykjavik, Iceland, at the height of a desert storm in Nevada, Vinay Gupta had an epiphany. He was at the 2003
Burning Man arts festival
, in...
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