A major report was released this week on the potential impacts of climate change on three major Asian cities. The news isn’t good. These three major coastal cities alone (all with populations of 10 million or more) — Bangkok, Manila,…
11-Minute Film of San Francisco Days Before the 1906 Earthquake
CBS recently dug up and released an 11-minute reel of film from days before the big earthquake of 1906. The video has been named “A Trip Down Market Street” and is shot from a Market Street cable car. The video…
Megacity Series on GlobalPost
Not long ago I wrote on the issue of cities becoming more and more powerful, perhaps even more powerful than countries. As a nice follow-up to that, GlobalPost has created a new 5-part multimedia report titled “Rise of the Megacities”…
5 Cities Chosen for Greening America’s Capitals Program
5 U.S. capitals are going to get a green makeover with the help of the EPA this year. These five lucky cities have just been announced by the EPA. A new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) program, Greening America’s Capitals,…
First Net-Zero Affordable Community! But…
There’s an exciting announcement out this week — the “first net-zero affordable community” is supposed to break ground on September 14th in Jerseyville, IL. It looks like a wonderful project in that 32 single-family homes renting for only $590 per…
Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation Building Sustainable, Green Homes and Community in New Orleans
Hurricane Katrina is off most people’s minds these days, but a recent story on Green Building Elements brought my attention to the ongoing work there and one great success story. A couple years after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, Brad…
Bicycle City
The first Bicycle City is finally getting built! More on that and how Bicycle City got started via co-founder Joe Mellet below. I have seen advertisements for Bicycle City for years now. I remember when it first got started —…
New York City Bicycle Sharing Program to be BIG!
I just wrote a piece on a cool visualization project of the new London cycle scheme, or bike sharing program. Now, on the other side of the Atlantic, we have some very exciting news about a bicycle sharing program in…