Impacts Photo by Breno Assis on Unsplash Cities need to be redesigned for the climate crisis. Can they make us happy, too? It’s tempting to draw lines on a map, but we can’t forget that cities should be designed for the people who live there.
Impacts www.nytimes.com ‘The City I Love’ and climate change: A Miami story Also this week, who cleans up when oil and gas companies fail?
Solutions Destiny Thomas: ‘Safe streets’ are not safe for black lives A transportation planner warns pedestrian-friendly street redesigns that happen without diverse public input can end up harming the communities they serve.
Solutions www.wesa.fm The City of Pittsburgh wants to make building standards for itself The Pittsburgh Planning Commission approved an amendment to the zoning code on Tuesday that's expected to help the city reach its climate goals.
Causes www.wired.com See how LA belches emissions, block by block Researchers quantify the emissions of every road and building in the nearly 5,000 square miles of the Los Angeles metro area. Your city could be next.
Impactss79f01z693v3ecoes3yyjsg1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com Finding high-tech solutions to the Arctic ice meltdown Despite cold temperatures and even snow in the Bay Area, climate change is happening.
Newsletter The model green towns of the original New Deal The original New Deal included a bold attempt to rethink suburbia. We can still learn from it.
As Biden prepares to block the sale of U.S. Steel to Nippon Steel, pollution concerns persist in Pennsylvania
A Pennsylvania fracking company with more than 2,000 environmental violations selected for federal environmental justice funding
Op-ed: “I’m sorry, I can’t hear you” — disabling environments in Cancer Alley and the Ohio River Valley