Environment & Sustainability

A public mural from the New Deal arts program. (William Gropper / Public Domain)

Should The Government Invest in High-Speed Rail to Boost a Post-Pandemic Economic Recovery?

As we live through the current moment, it is difficult to understate the impact that the Covid-19 pandemic has had on the world. While...

Riding and Running Heatmap

Strava Labs is an online community of athletes that is collecting data about activities one person at a time. You can sign up for...

Sunday Video: How “Forever Chemicals” Polluted America’s Water

https://youtu.be/sZHuZkUUYM4 Throughout America, "forever chemicals" are polluting waterways because they effectively cannot be broken down. Vox explains how that happened and what that means for...

Map of the Week: Average Annual Household Carbon Emissions

We are a carbon-based society. Our daily lives are built around our ability to acquire and consume goods, produce things, move freely from one...
A view of towers in Belltown, Seattle WA.

Bayview Tower Project Marks A Step Forward in Decarbonizing Buildings

For tenants of large apartment buildings, the prospect of a new water heating system installation can be cause for alarm. Prolonged utility shutoffs present...

Sunday Video: An Ode to Street Trees

https://youtu.be/uoRsVdIyhUM What’s so great about street trees? City Beautiful offers some positive benefits of them in this video short.

Sunday Video: How Radical Gardeners Took Back New York City

https://youtu.be/_g2CaF12xxw Vox tells the story of how two women led movements to plant street trees and commission community gardens in New York City in a...

Baugruppen: To Form a More Affordable Urbanism

Editor’s Note: This is Part 3 of a series on Baugruppen, private owners collaboratively building affordable multifamily projects. Read Part 1 or check out the...