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  • Reno Brings Sustainability to the Wild West

    In a region with one of the highest concentrations of ski resorts in the U.S. and a water supply that depends on mountain snowpack, the climat…

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  • LOCUS Ranks U.S. Opportunity Zones on 'Smart Growth Potential'

    As a new federal tax incentive promises to generate trillions of dollars in private investment into pre-designated low-income communities, sma…

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  • Transportation Demand Management: Taking Wheels Off the Road

    Eric Sundquist, managing director of the State Smart Transportation Initiative at the University of Wisconsin, said we have been going about t…

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  • Chemists Develop Carbon Fibers from Greenhouse Gas

    In collaboration with fellow researchers, chemists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a process that, according to ini…

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  • Making Hazard Mitigation a Local Planning Priority

    Through good urban planning, communities determine with logic and order how land is developed, how transportation systems work, and how water …

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  • The Role of Urban Forests in Sustainable Communities

    Urban trees should not be an afterthought or taken for granted like, well, something that grows on trees. Instead, they should be included in …

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  • Ecotourism Can Benefit Rural Communities

    In 2006, Fred Lochner was hired by the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation to help it decide what the group could do with some land it had bought in…

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  • Racial Equity is Key to Cleveland’s Comeback

    On June 22, 2019, the city of Cleveland will host what organizers hope will be the largest clean water rally in the nation, in observance of t…

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  • Report: Forest Soils are Absorbing Less Methane

    Farming, energy production, and landfills produce methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Forests can remove methane from the atmosphere through the…

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  • The Big (Green) Apple

    New York City is sometimes called the Capital of the World, the City of Dreams, or the Big Apple, but officials in Mayor Bill de Blasio’s sust…

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  • EDF Renewables Canada in Partnership with the Blood Tribe Secures Wind Project
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  • Eaton Supports Effort to Reduce Commercial Vehicle Emissions
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