Washington, DC and Arlington County, VA recently launched a bike share program, Capital Bikeshare, making over 1,100 bikes available at 110 stations. With 11,000 members, it is already the largest in the nation. These programs have been successful in Europe and have sprouted up throughout the US as cities look to provide greener, cheaper, healthier [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Stephen Wade’
Bike Sharing: Increasing Transportation Choices, Saving Communities Money, Creating Better Places
May 15th, 2011
Stephen Wade Social Media and Smart Growth: Do New Communication Tools Lead to Greener Outcomes?
March 30th, 2011
Stephen Wade Community planning is a luxury, currently available to people who have the time and money to attend. Retired people, people without kids, and people with means can spend time sitting through hearings, speaking to public bodies and generally making their voices heard. People with kids, lower income families, and young professionals find it much more [...]
Two Ways to Save the Environment: Live in a City and Walk
March 3rd, 2011
Stephen Wade More than half of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions come from moving people and goods and housing those people (see slide 10). Harvard Professor Edward Glaeser, in a recent Atlantic magazine article (as well as here and here), makes the case that living in smaller homes and driving less significantly reduces one’s carbon emissions. Therefore, [...]
The Next Frontier in Real Estate: Can it Serve Everyone?
January 31st, 2011
Stephen Wade Real estate is funny. In the not too distant past, everyone was moving to the exurbs, far to the edges of our metropolitan areas. Gas was cheap, land was cheap, traffic didn’t seem too bad. Then the costs of that lifestyle became more evident. It shrunk our pocketbooks, degraded our health and hurt our environment. [...]
The Importance of Place in Sustainability
December 16th, 2009
Eric Wilson Much of the writing in academic circles and popular nonfiction regarding sustainability reiterates the importance of place in sustainability. In fact, one of our earliest guest posts on 2nd Green Revolution was titled “Place Really Does Matter.” From academics like David Sobel at Antioch University in Keene, New Hampshire to nature advocate Richard Louv – [...]
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