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Future City: Seattle on the Threshold



In preparation for our Future City event this Friday, we're comparing progress towards urban sustainability in Portland and Seattle. In its Cascadian context, Seattle is the middling city. It's true that it retains a vibrant central core, that it has had neighborhood planning since 1993, and that in general Seattle is more and more compact. Yet it is no Vancouver...
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Alex Steffen on Carbon Neutral Cities at Seattle Town Hall
WorldChanging Team, 13 Oct 10 In just a few weeks Alex Steffen will be returning to Seattle's Town Hall to give a talk on the "State of the Future," and present his new ideas about global sustainability and planetary futurism. In the coming week we...
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Resource: Map of Worldwide Ecological Footprints
WorldChanging Team, 13 Oct 10 WWF Living Planet map of ecological footprints worldwide: A global map of the relative ecological footprint per person in 2007. The darker the color, the higher the footprint. (Click image for bigger picture) This post originally appeared on The Guardian
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Pimp Your Ride Update
Amanda Reed, 13 Oct 10 Four years ago guest contributor Alan Durning discussed the idea of personal car sharing and the obstacles of bringing the concept to market. Last week, Jennifer Langston at Sightline Daily wrote an update about new legislation in California that breaks...
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Good News x2 for U.S. Offshore Wind
Yale Environment 360, 13 Oct 10 U.S. Offshore Wind Could Provide 20 Percent of Electricity by 2030 U.S. officials calculate that the total potential for offshore wind generation is more than 4,000 gigawatts — or about four times the generating capacity currently carried on the U.S...
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