How Our Obsession With Parking Fuels the Climate Crisis
In his new book, journalist Henry Grabar reimagines the urban streetscape. How Our Obsession With Parking Fuels the Climate Crisis In his new book, journalist Henry Grabar reimagines the urban streetscape. What could a city like New York achieve if it repurposed some of its 3 million curbside parking spots? It could get rid of […]
Getting it Done: Greenest Cities Shift Gears from Plans to Implementation
With the majority of the world’s population living in urban areas, and cities accounting for 70% of global greenhouse gas emissions, local governments will play a central role in allocating the $6 to $9 trillion per year that must be invested in the global sustainability transition this decade, concludes the latest Sustainable Cities Index published […]
Pennsylvania’s Largest Coal Plant Is Retiring. What Would It Take to Transition the Site to Renewables?
Homer City Generating Station has been used to delay environmental regulations. Could the infamous site become a symbol for the just transition? The largest coal-fired power plant in Pennsylvania recently became the latest to announce its retirement plans, prompting questions about its future use and highlighting the debate over the state’s transition to a green economy. […]
Catawba College Becomes First Campus in North Carolina — and the Southeast — to go Carbon Neutral
The small, private liberal arts school is among just 13 colleges in the country to achieve net-zero so far. Catawba College, a tiny liberal arts school 40 miles northeast of Charlotte, just announced a big milestone: its carbon footprint is now zero. The private college becomes the first campus in the Southeast and the 13th in the […]
“Handshake Activism” Won’t Defuse the Climate Emergency
We need to mobilize many more people from all walks of life, say climate activists Kumi Naidoo and Luisa Neubauer. If a historian were charting the climate movement, she’d probably set its highwater mark so far as September of 2019, when something like 7 million people, most of them young, took to the streets of […]
