Editor's Take: September 03, 2009
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Shaping Sustainable Cities
Ideas and projects to build more sustainable cities are surfacing around our region. Vancouver, BC, contemplates growing more food in urban settings. A Portland neighborhood is getting a green makeover along a main street. San Francisco puts vacant lots to good use. And new research shows yet again that increasing density leads to cuts in vehicle pollution and greenhouse gases.
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10 ways to make BC an urban farming model
The Tyee
09/03/2009
Vertical farming, or high-rise buildings filled with high-tech rooms full of crops and chickens, and even cows, may be just the thing for BC's food future.
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Portland 'hood to be revitalized via green street
Oregonian
09/03/2009
A $2.85 million project aims to revitalize four blocks in the Kenton district, a working-class neighborhood in north Portland, making it the city's first fully retrofitted green main street.
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Candidate Kitzhaber keeps green jobs focus
Business Journal
09/02/2009
Former Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber, who announced Wednesday that he will join the governor's race in 2010, hopes to continue the state's efforts to attract green businesses if elected.
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$126 million for UW's ocean observatory
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
09/03/2009
The University of Washington announced Wednesday that it will get a $126 million federal grant -- the largest award the school has ever received for one project -- to study the ocean as it as never been studied before.
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'Wild' takes on new meaning for Molalla River
Oregonian
09/03/2009
Shot-up road signs, illegal camping spots, litter, and vandalism everywhere -- only a few years ago, those uncivilized signs of civilization characterized a stretch of the Molalla River. Not any more. After months of planning and advocacy by a grass-roots group started by five local families, the situation is reversed.
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Views: Sharrows are a sham solution for bike lanes
Crosscut
09/03/2009
The faux-lanes for bikes being laid across Seattle are ambiguous and do little more than enable politicians to claim more bike miles. Here's a better solution.
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Report: Density cuts vehicle, energy use
Seattle Post Globe
09/03/2009
Increasing population and employment density in metro areas could reduce vehicle travel, energy use, and CO2 emissions from between 1 and 11 percent in 2050, according to a report by the Transportation Research Board.
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Backers of climate bill spend more on ads
USA Today
09/03/2009
Climate-change legislation supporters are outspending the measure's opponents in the television advertising skirmish underway in advance of Senate action this month.
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Efforts to turn empty lots to a glass half full
San Francisco Chronicle
09/03/2009
Even as San Francisco's development scene continues to languish, city officials and at least one private landowner are exploring how to fill empty sites in creative ways - including art installations and a working farm.
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Vancouver, BC, plugged in to electric cars
Toronto Globe and Mail
09/03/2009
Vancouver, BC, won't be left in the dark if electric vehicles catch on. The city council has unanimously approved new regulations for electric vehicle charging stations for the intentionally car-unfriendly city.
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