"How the Rise of the Megacity Is Changing the Way We Live"
"The rapid increase in the number of cities home to more than 10 million people will bring huge challenges … and opportunities."
Source: Guardian, 01/24/2012
Planning & Growth
"Becoming Detroit"
Detroit, one of the birthplaces of American industrial capitalism, has also been in many ways one of its earlier deathplaces -- an urban landscape where many houses and lots are abandoned. A conversation with civil rights legend Grace Lee Boggs and people she inspires offers a key example of how the urban agriculture movement is reclaiming post-industrial America both physically and spiritually.
Christa Tippett hosts this episode of American Public Media's On Being January 19, 2012.
Source: On Being, 01/23/2012
"Rainforest in Transition: Is Amazon Transforming before Our Eyes?"
"A review suggests that the Amazon rainforest may be changing, courtesy of human impacts on the region's weather."
Source: Scientific American, 01/19/2012
"FEMA Faces Criticism for Increasing Risky Development Behind Levees"
Changes in federal flood insurance policy, along with increased flood risks from global warming, may encourage development in the wrong places.
Source: ClimateWire, 01/19/2012
Checking Local Water Use and Scrutinizing Those Big Water Projects Can Benefit Your Community
Author Cynthia Barnett explains water-use truths and fallacies, offers tips for investigating water projects proposed for your audience area, and reports how some of the country’s most progressive engineers and local governments are showing that it’s absolutely possible to live with far less water.
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Refrigerant Chemicals Can Be Good for Ozone Layer, Bad for Climate
A new United Nations Environment Programme report offers recommendations to help make refrigerants less of a greenhouse gas problem, while still addressing ozone concerns. Get tips here on how your reporting on this issue can range from the local to the global scale.
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Feds Try To Nudge 100 "Great Outdoors" Projects Toward Completion
The chosen include 24 improving recreational access to rivers and waterways; 23 to construct new trails or improve recreation sites; 20 to create and enhance urban parks; 13 to conserve significant landscapes; and 11 to establish new national wildlife refuges; national park units, etc.
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