Listed below are all articles tagged with "green cities"

 

  • It's Not Too Late, But It's Not Too Soon

    The work of choosing and executing strategies that add up to large-scale carbon reduction must begin in earnest. In the Northwest and around the United States, we are seeing early signs that elected officials are responding to this call and starting down the path of hard work.

     

  • New Center Aims for Infrastructure Paradigm Shift

    The US needs to invest trillions just to keep our nation’s basic infrastructure--energy, transportation, water, and waste systems--in working order. Will we lock in inefficient, carbon-polluting systems for decades to come? Or will we invest in innovative programs better adapted to a world with too much carbon?

     

  • Bringing Nature into Cities Is Good for You and the Planet

    Cool examples of the practical benefits of maintaining--or reintroducing--natural elements and environments into our urban landscapes.

     

  • Tanner Springs

    Urban ecosystem services: the promise of green infrastructure

    Urban green infrastructure is increasingly seen as an effective way to meet regulatory obligations for control of polluted runoff or high stormwater flows, while also generating an array of ecosystem service co-benefits.

     

  • Ecoroof

    The business case for greening our cities

    We know ‘green infrastructure’ can provide low-cost solutions for communities to better handle those big pulses of water gushing over roads and into pipes when the big rains come… and we know greening our cities is good for biocarbon and for the human spirit. 

     

  • Depave in action

    Unpave paradise, get rid of the parking lots

    Our country, America the Beautiful, boasts somewhere between 105 million and 2 billion parking spaces, according to a New York Times blog that caught my eye the other day. 

     

It's Not Too Late, But It's Not Too Soon

The work of choosing and executing strategies that add up to large-scale carbon reduction must begin in earnest. In the Northwest and around the United States, we are seeing early signs that elected officials are responding to this call and starting down the path of hard work.

Read More

New Center Aims for Infrastructure Paradigm Shift

Submitted by Rhys Roth on

The US needs to invest trillions just to keep our nation’s basic infrastructure--energy, transportation, water, and waste systems--in working order. Will we lock in inefficient, carbon-polluting systems for decades to come? Or will we invest in innovative programs better adapted to a world with too much carbon?

Read More

Ecoroof

The business case for greening our cities

Submitted by Rhys Roth on

We know ‘green infrastructure’ can provide low-cost solutions for communities to better handle those big pulses of water gushing over roads and into pipes when the big rains come… and we know greening our cities is good for biocarbon and for the human spirit. 

Read More