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5 Reasons New Yorkers Are the Most Eco-Friendly People in the US - Without Even Trying
TreeHugger —
... . Well, over at Yale Environment 360, David Owen (who's a staff writer for The New Yorker, by the way...) lays out some stats as to why New York City should probably get renamed the Big Green Apple:... ...
Greenest Place in the U.S.? It's Not Where You Think.
Worldchanging: Bright Green —
... problem of how to support billions of mobile, acquisitive, hungry human beings without triggering disasters that can’t be contained. The world’s population is projected to increase to 9 billion during the next 30 years — an increase of seven times the current population of the United States, or roughly equal to the current population of India and China combined. We won’t be able to accommodate that change by making the world look more like Vermont. This article originally appeared on Yale Environment 360 . Image Credit: Mario Tama, Getty Images ...
Housing & urban design - Oct 29
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... Greenest Place in the U.S.? It’s Not Where You Think David Owen, environment yale 360 In 2007, Forbes picked Vermont as the greenest state, a choice consistent with conventional thinking about low-impact living. Vermont has an abundance of trees, farms, backyard compost heaps, and environmentally aware citizens, and it has no crowded expressways or big, dirty cities. (The population of Vermont’s largest city, Burlington, is just under 40,000.) Vermont also ranks high in almost all the categories on which Forbes based its analysis, such as the proportion of buildings certified ...
gbNYC Book Club: David Owen's "Green Metropolis" Singles Out NYC as Standard-Setter
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... term from the jargon of computer systems, dense cities are scalable, while sprawling suburbs are not. The environmental challenge we face, at the current stage of our assault on the world's non-renewable resources, is not how to make our teeming cities more like the pristine countryside. The true challenge is how to make other settled places more like Manhattan." Owen updated that piece recently on his website, and also made this point in greater detail, and more recently, at Yale's Environment 360 website.
In the Yale piece, Owen makes the ...
