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 […]

“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 […]