Where the Streets are Paved with Plastic
The city of Vancouver, British Columbia, is hoping to reduce greenhouse gases by 300 tons per year by using a hybrid asphalt made with recycled plastic. Read more.
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“ The federal government has been slow to enact meaningful reforms to combat climate change. Fortunately, some local legislators have stepped up and are leading the way. Here are twelve American cities with innovative sustainability initiatives.
12 Cities Leading the Way in Sustainability | BillMoyers.com (via alongtimealone)
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City Of Orlando Wants to Fine Couple $500 A Day for Garden
Gardening is not a crime
“The city of Cambridge, Mass has teamed up with MIT to produce a Solar Tool that allows people to type an address into a website and get a detailed account of that roof’s solar electric potential. This is probably the most detailed service now existing and every building in Cambridge is covered. You can learn how much of your roof sees enough sun for a PV installation, how large that PV installation can be, how much it will cost, how high your Federal and state tax rebate will be, how much electricity it will produce in a year, and how much carbon it will displace.”
Stanford Study Arguing Against Benefits of Organic Food Funded by the Cargill & Agricultural Complex
“The researchers started with a narrow set of assumptions and arrived at entirely predictable conclusions. Stanford should be ashamed of the lack of expertise about food and farming among the researchers, a low level of academic rigor in the study, its biased conclusions, and lack of transparency about the industry ties of the major researchers on the study. Normally we busy people would simply ignore another useless academic study, but this study was so aggressively spun by the PR masters that it requires a response.”
Want lower crime rates? Plant tomatoes. A growing body of research shows that urban farms reduce violence.
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a-day-in-the-life: John Fetterman “America’s coolest Mayor” Rehabing Bradick, Pennsylvania.
He won by one vote.
“ We are told ceaselessly that sustainable or organic agriculture cannot feed the world. I find this claim very hard to understand.
HRH The Prince Of Wales, excerpted from Co.Exist. (via fastcompany)
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Austin passes disposable bag ban
Is this good legislation or bad?At 2 a.m. today, the Austin City Council passed one of the broadest bag laws in the nation, agreeing to ban disposable paper and plastic bags at all retail checkout counters starting in March 2013.
Only reusable bags — defined as those made of cloth, durable materials or thicker paper and plastic bags that have handles — can be offered by retailers.
