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Tag Archives: ecological footprint
Going Green by Working Less?
Working less is a radical notion today, but it hasn’t always been. Between the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries, work hours declined steadily in the industrialized world. In 1956, then-vice president Richard Nixon said that a four-day workweek was “not too far distant.” But men today report working 100 more hours a year than in 1976. For women, it’s 200-plus hours. All these extra hours have helped more than double the productivity of the American worker in the past half-century — but they have also increased our energy consumption and greenhouse-gas emissions.
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Posted in Climate Change, Culture, Livability, Rants, Sustainability, What if?
Tagged Andre Metzger, Center for a New American Dream, consumption, David Roberts, ecological footprint, Fast Company, GDP, green, greenhouse-gas emissions, productivity, Protestant work ethic, shorter work week
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The World’s Most Beautiful Cities
Since beauty is subjective, we surveyed city specialists from a range of fields, including urban planning, architecture and sustainable development. Respondents include Reynolds and Michael Kaufman, an architect at Chicago-based architectural firm Goettsch Partners, as well as Raymond Levitt, director of the construction program in civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University, Tony McGuirk, an urban designer, architect and chairman of BDP in London, J. Hugh O’Donnell of urban engineering firm MMM International, and Ken Drucker, New York design director of architectural firm HOK.
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Posted in Culture
Tagged downtown, vancouver, architecture, New York City, Paris, ecological footprint, Stanley Park, Cambridge, London, urban design, cultural diversity, Florence, Forbes, Canada, urban planning, most beautiful cities, England, River Cam, King's College Chapel, Cambridge University, Tokyo, Amanda Reynolds, Urban Design Group, cityscape, Sydney, Tim Kiladze, Ian Cumming, France, Australia, Italy, Venice, Michael Kaufman, Goettsch Partners, Raymond Levitt, Stanford University, Tony McGuirk, BDP, Hugh O'Donnell, MMM International, Ken Drucker, HOK, boulevards, street life, Haussman, Eiffel Tower, Centre Pompidou, Institute du Monde Arab, height restrictions, cities of light, natural beauty, open air, Pacific Ocean, Cape Town, South Africa, Sir Francis Drake, Kirstenbosch botanical garden, Table Mountain
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Conversations on Scale: Global Footprint Network
Humans are the most successful species on the planet, but are using more resources than the Earth can provide. The Global Footprint Network was established in 2003 to address this overshoot, by providing ways of measuring human demand on the Earth through the use of the Ecological Footprint — a resource accounting tool that measures how much nature we have, how much we use, and who uses what. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Livability, Shout Outs, Sustainability
Tagged Alejandro Litovsky, biocapacity, biodiversity, Climate Change, ecological footprint, ecological overshoot, foot, GDP, Global Footprint Network, Mathis Wackernagel, natural resources, oil, peak everything, social innovation, social investment, Volans, water
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Seattle, Vancouver, and Portland by Rail, Bus, Streetcar, and Foot: Part Two
According to The Economist, Mercer, and Monocle, Vancouver is one of the world’s most livable cities. They cite its ecodensity, cosmopolitan population, scenic natural surroundings, progressive governance, general safety and cleanliness. Others, less enthralled, have taken to calling the city Blandcouver, or even Vanshitty. I had visited Vancouver twice before boarding Amtrak’s 510 Cascades Line train out of Seattle, had fallen in love with the city twice, but both trips had been brief, summertime affairs. Everywhere was shimmering blue water, glittering glass and steel, lush green forests and mountains. Vancouver sure knows how to get dolled up for a date, but what does she look like the morning after, in sweat pants and no makeup, during the long, wet, gray winter? Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Dispatches, Josh Grigsby, Livability, Sustainability, transit, Uncategorized
Tagged Amtrak, Bill Rees, Blandcouver, Burrard Bridge Bike Lanes, community gardens, Davie Street, Davie Village, Downtown Vancouver Hostel, East Hastings, ecodensity, ecological footprint, environmental sustainability, Granville Island, high density, Hostelling International, Jericho Beach, Kitsilano, livable cities, Mercer, Monocle, natural resources, New Urbanism, Puget Sound, roundabouts, Seaside SeaWalk, Skytrain, Stanley Park, The Economist, transit, vancouver, Vancouver West End, walkability
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from Copenhagenize: Bicycle Commuter Superhighways
The City of Copenhagen is currently planning to expand the existing, extensive network of bike lanes to extend farther out into the suburbs. A network of 13 high-class routes – ‘bicycle superhighways’ if you will – dedicated to bicycle commuters and aimed at encouraging more to cycle to work. Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Josh Grigsby, Livability, Placemaking, Rants, Shout Outs, Sustainability, transit, Transportation, What if?
Tagged Amsterdam, auto-dependence, best practices, bike infrastructure, biking, Copenhagen, Copenhagenize.com, Ecclesiastes, ecological footprint, Freiburg, Groningen, historic cities, human scale, Pete Seeger, transit, urban consolidation, walking
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