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7 Things I Wish Every City Would Do to Make Urban Living Even Greener
Though it sometimes might not seem so, living in cities is a pretty green thing to do. Two prime reasons being that average home sizes are smaller and transportation distances are generally shorter, both leading to lower
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Times Square Made More Pedestrian (and Lounge Chair) Friendly (Slideshow)
A couple months ago we brought you word that New York City was going to make Times Square and Herald Square more pedestrian-friendly, by rearranging traffic patterns and blocking off certain streets to form large outdoor
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Can Painting the Pavement Make Streets Safer?
Brooklyn Kids Paint Their Street Sometimes sustainability is not about solar panels, hybrid cars or wind turbines. Sometimes it's as simple as a pot of paint and a bunch of kids - at least that's the theory behind the latest project from Livable Streets
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Comedians Joke About Energy Saving
Green celebrities we have by the armload, but green comedians are thin on the ground. So put your hands together and welcome Marcus Brigstocke, an English stand-up who has slowly renovated his house and has quite a few things to say about the
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Top Ten Twitterers to Follow for Cars and Transportation
Find out some of the best Twitterers to follow in the realm of transportation, who will keep you updated on the greenest ways of getting from here to there.@GreenCarCongres Mike Millikin of Green Car Congress twitters out the latest blog posts from the
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Congrats to StreetFilms on 200 Green Short Films!
This is What Green is All About: Smart Solutions and Effective Advocacy We'd like to belatedly congratulate our friends over at StreetFilms (one of the winners of the 2009 Best of Green!) on a big milestone: 200 short films of quality advocacy for
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What the Heck is a Zozo?!
StreetFilms' Search for the Zozo Now what are Clarence and friends up to now? StreetFilms have confused us before with Cycling Sasquatches and Purple Traffic-Calming Wizards. Now it appears they are on the trail of a mythical creature called the Zozo -
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Fantastic People-Friendly Urban Planning in London (Video)
StreetFilms Explores Design for London's Vision for Livable Streets StreetFilms does it again! No sooner had we announced that they, along with their partner projects StreetsBlog and the Livable Streets Initiative, were winners of the Best
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StreetFilms Posts 200th Film on Liveable Streets
200 Bike, Pedestrian and Transit-Friendly Videos There is an awful lot of sustainability-oriented video content out there on the web. But few are as entertaining, as pertinent and as down-right informative as those produced by our friends at
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The Amazing High-Tech Crosswalk Makes Pedestrians Safer
You Don't Even Have to Press a Button... You'd think that cosswalk technology would be pretty static. How can you improve a crosswalk? Sure you can put blinking lights and signs on each side of the road, but there's so much visual pollution in cities
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Google Maps 500% Greener Than Last Year
Well, at least that's how Google frames it in their latest blog post on the improvements made in the past year on Google Maps and getting transit directions. And we have to agree - they've done a lot of really cool things to help folks get around in a
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Pedestrian-Friendly Improvements Coming to NYC's Herald and Times Squares
While not quite as radical an idea as making all of New York's 42nd Street pedestrianized and get a light rail system, a new pilot program to turn sections of the Times Square and Herald Square into pedestrianized zones
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To Wait or to Walk, That Is the Question
Sure, it's important for researchers to invent algae-based jet fuel and make solar concentrators more effective, but why isn't anyone addressing the real pressing issues of a treehugger's day-to-day life? Like
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5 Great Green Ways US Cities Are Leading by Example
At TreeHugger we are always big fans of individual actions and DIYers, but sometimes if you do things on a bigger scale you just get so much more bang for your buck. The last couple of years, community
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A Tragic Car Crash Epidemic Kills Over 3000 People in Just One Day
In one year, it is estimated that 1.2 million people are killed in auto-related accidents around the globe. That equates to slightly more than 3200 traffic deaths EVERY DAY.
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Groundbreaking Study Proves Street Lights Help People See Better
It would appear that another study should have been on the forefront of this particular one... the study of a disintegrating gene pool among some scientists and
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Why "Daylighting" Crosswalks Improves Pedestrian Safety (Video)
"Daylighting" Crosswalks Saves Lives Sometimes it’s the tiniest of details that make all the difference when it comes to sustainability – take daylighting for instance. We’re not talking about fancy systems for piping natural sunlight into your house,
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How to Go Green: Workouts
At this point, all those holiday cookies, cocktail parties, and lavish lunches are a distant memory--and the reality is that you're (at least) five pounds heavier than you were when you last stepped on the
