Category: Energy Efficient Places
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Entropy & Engineering
Hans Noeldner and the principles of hydraulic engineering applied to our transportation system.
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‘Sleeper’ items on Tuesday Council Agenda: Before the Pave, the Pipe
Below is an excellent little analysis of a couple of items destined to be rubber stamped by our paving council this evening. This comes from a small local listserv*: On just about every City Council Agenda you’ll find ‘sleeper’ items — seemingly innocuous — but which have huge implications in future. Twenty-or forty-years from now,…
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Green Collar Job Symposium, Saturday May 1 — Tomorrow
Green Collar Job Symposium, Saturday May 1, Madison Labor Temple, 1602 South Park Street, 9:30 – 5:30.
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Q: What’s the Greatest Threat to the Planet?
A: http://www.youtube.com/user/1standMain#p/u/1/VGJt_YXIoJI …. a fun & lighthearted take on a serious topic thanks to our friends over at the Congress for New Urbanism. Robbie Webber exasperatedly declared that they captured her entire 50 minute class talk on the Environment & Urbanism in 3 minutes! D’Oh!
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Pick Up an Isthmus! Then read more about Jevons Paradox here….
Moving toward a resilient, sustainable, green world will require a thoroughgoing ethic of conservation; emphasis on ethic.
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Cul-de-sac Syndrome
Car dependent places crashed, while car-optional places held steady during the Great Recession.
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Willy Street Grocery Coop: Values, Sustainability, Community…Questions
Williamson Street Grocery Coop and its perennial parking “problem:” management’s solution will likely be worse than the problem itself.
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Sustainable Sheep Herding
City of Madison dismisses public input toward a more sustainable community.