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What Baltimore Gets Right about Urban Trees
While other cities plant trees, Baltimore has focused on monitoring and maintaining the ones it already has—and is one of the few cities whose urban forest is expanding.
The Fixer: A Cool, Refreshing Glass of Fog
In this week’s news briefing: Pulling drinking water from the mist, post-prison seniors and hyper-humane malaria eradication.
The Center is Everywhere: Indonesia!
A collectivist spirit permeates this island nation’s art scene, where artists supporting artists has helped the creative ecology thrive.
Spain’s Happy Little Carless City
Pontevedra, once choked with cars, is a laboratory for how smaller cities can implement a few simple tricks to reduce driving dramatically.
The Fixer: Who’s Afraid of Collectivism?
In this first edition of RTBC’s weekly news briefing, stories of street redesign in Amsterdam, solar systems in California and cooperative farming in China.
Cars in Cities: How’s That Working Out?
They’re dangerous, destructive, polluting, expensive, inefficient and inequitable—not to mention a pain in the ass. Now cars are being chased off city streets. That’s progress.
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My Alternate Route to Harvard
Raised on the plains of North Carolina by parents who grew up in the segregated South, I wasn’t put on the “Harvard track” early. I got there anyway—thanks to one of the best-kept secrets in higher education.
Dead Plants are Powering Stockholm
The biochar process is ingenious, turning green waste into heat before returning it to the soil as an agricultural nutrient. No wonder it’s turning a profit.
A Republican Suburb Designed for Cyclists
A deep-red town in Indiana has a bicycling network that would make Boulder blush. Their secret? Forget the politics and treat bikes more like cars.
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Spain’s Happy Little Carless City
Pontevedra, once choked with cars, is a laboratory for how smaller cities can implement a few simple tricks to reduce driving dramatically.
The Necessity of Nuclear
After reading David Byrne’s article suggesting that nuclear power is too risky to be a part of our green energy evolution, I had a few thoughts to share.
This Lake Belongs to Everyone
A city on Lake Erie convinced its waterfront property owners to give the public their waterfronts for free. It’s a case that could transform the Great Lakes forever.
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