June 18th, 2013 
Samantha Page 
Cue the nanny-state cries from Fox and the general grumbling from the fine folks in the Empire State: Mayor Michael Bloomberg is at it again, striving to curb residents’ behavior. This time, he’s targeting New York City’s organic waste problem — and it is a problem, to the tune of nearly 1.2 million tons and [...]
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Tags: Bloomberg, Composting, New York City, organic waste, Samantha Page, San Francisco, Seattle, Taiwan 
No Comments » April 21st, 2013 Stephen Wade 
What does it mean to be green? In the modern era, its meaning has evolved from Rachel Carson’s documentation of pollution in Silent Spring, Teddy Roosevelt and and John Muir’s founding of the National Parks, and Henry David Thoreau’s solitary musings in Walden to a more complex, integrated, consumption-based, and urban meaning exhibited by Al [...]
April 11th, 2013 Eric Wilson 
The New York Times’ just ran a story about the Modern Museum of Art getting set to tear down the former American Folk Art Museum building that was completed in 2001, a seminal year in New York’s history for sure. As a bit of an art history buff (though admittedly not modern and contemporary art), [...]
March 3rd, 2013 Eric Wilson 
With sequestration upon us, it will be interesting to see where renewable energy’s future lies. Many of the cuts have been to military expenditures, but renewable energy offers a way forward for reduced utility costs for the Department of Defense. This month, the 8th annual military energy alternatives conference in Washington DC may lay the [...]
Posted in Conferences, Economics, Eric Wilson, Sustainability Tags: Alternative Energy, Bicycles, Bio-fuels, Calendar, California, Military, New York City, Santa Barbara, Washington DC No Comments » February 2nd, 2013 Eric Wilson 
A few years ago while I was teaching entry level environmental science as part of my doctoral program, I had students yet to reimagine/redesign Denver as a sustainable city. There were the standard designs that groups put together, the occasional radial pattern that I vaguely recalled from my urban planning class as an undergraduate, and [...]
Posted in Business, Eric Wilson, Green Economy, Sustainable Development Tags: Bicycles, Denver, Minneapolis, New York City, Urban Planning No Comments » November 14th, 2012 Nick Grue A couple of weeks ago my post spoke of The Climate Reality Project, the organization founded by former Vice President Al Gore to raise public awareness about climate change. Starting tonight at 7 pm Eastern time, the organization is putting on a 24 hour-long program designed to showcase the dangers of extreme weather. The 24 [...]
November 11th, 2012 Eric Wilson 
I’ve lived in a number of cities throughout the United States over the past 15 years. It’s kind of strange which cities have had access to the airport via light rail. I currently live in Denver and there is a burgeoning light rail system, but with the airport 20+ miles away from downtown, there is [...]
Posted in Behavior, Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Op-Ed, Transportation Tags: Denver, Los Angeles, Mass Transit, Minnesota, New York City, Saint Louis Missouri No Comments » September 25th, 2012 Eric Wilson Perhaps the biggest knock on high speed rail in the United States is that it is currently anything but high speed. A Washington Monthly article from ten years ago, during the unveiling of the Acela line, mentions that the train only reaches its highest speed (150 MPH/250 KPH) once and “for a couple of minutes, [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, News, Transportation Tags: Government, High Speed Rail, New York City, Trains No Comments » September 1st, 2012 Eric Wilson In an attempt to bring more meaningful events – and relevant – to the calendar, we’ve changed the way in which we feature conferences, fairs, and symposiums. This change has led to more events that are local in nature, as opposed to mega-international conferences. We still have numerous large events listed, especially those that are [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Business, Conferences, Education, Eric Wilson, Sustainability Tags: Calendar, Environment, Fort Collins, New York City, Regenerative Economy No Comments » August 24th, 2012 Eric Wilson As a follow up to last week’s Five Friday Facts, and the post earlier this week about high speed rail, both of which were derived from a recent article in the New York Times, comes this week’s set of facts. Last week focused on ridership, but today looks at the competition that Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor [...]
Posted in Behavior, Business, Eric Wilson, Five Friday Facts, Transportation Tags: Bus, High Speed Rail, New York City, Trains, Washington DC No Comments »
