Fri, January 27, 2012

Green Economy Around the Web

 

New Mexico Gets the New Economy

Posted 1 year, 2 months ago

Here in this sparsely populated state wedged between California and Arizona, the talk at this week’s affordable housing summit is civil and upbeat.

The City of Albuquerque has partnered with the Jonathan Rose Companies, a green-savvy developer, to enliven a chunk of downtown with…

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Brooklyn’s Mourning Rider Gives Cities a New Rule

Posted 2 years, 6 months ago

If bicyclists keep asserting “rights” to zigzag across urban landscape regardless of lanes and traffic lights, we’ll add martyrs at a faster rate than we reduce carbon emissions. Jonathan Rule knows this all too well. A humble architect from Brooklyn now working in Spain, Rule has designed a…

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There’s an Organic Sucker at Every Rest Stop

Posted 2 years, 6 months ago

Traveling on the Interstate, as I did today,  provides an acid reminder of how quickly people adapt false spending habits to support the delusion that living sustainably is easy. How people tell themselves that by spurning Starbucks-sized brands, they are pioneering a truly green marketplace. …

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