Pushing Back Against the Methane Tipping Point
A piece in the latest issue of Science shows that there's a considerable amount of methane (CH4) coming from the East Siberian Arctic Shelf, where it had been trapped under the permafrost. There's as much coming out from one small section of the Arctic ocean as from all the rest of the oceans combined. This is officially Not Good. Here's...
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Headlines from Worldchanging Canada
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Design Indaba 2010
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Outer Ring Suburbs and the Permanent Foreclosure
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Three great talks: Bill Dunster on future-proofing cities, Dan Hill on re-imagining them, Dan Barber on how to feed them
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Urban Resilience for Dummies, Part 2: Failing the Milk Test
WorldChanging Team, 10 Mar 10 by Warren Karlenzig Last post I covered some guiding principles for urban resilience planning in the face of climate change and diminishing resources (especially fresh water and oil). Considering these guidelines, what aspect of U.S. metro development stands out as...
Industrial Strength Stormwater Fix
WorldChanging Team, 10 Mar 10 A blue-collar business embraces a green stormwater fix. by Lisa Stiffler Editor's note 3/9: This profile is now available in PDF format here. On Seattle’s 8th Avenue South in the Georgetown neighborhood, empty school buses and recycling trucks rumble by...
Carbon Neutral Caution
Eric De Place, 10 Mar 10 A climate action lesson from Denmark There's been a lot of ambitious talk lately about carbon neutrality. It's exciting stuff, but it's worth pausing to consider just how huge that challenge is. And what, precisely, does it mean? Zero emissions...
