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Posted 24 July 2008 inPublished 23 July 2008 by Terra DailyIn the late 1990s, the small town of Kuzumaki in Northern Japan started transforming itself into a living laboratory for alternative energy sources.
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Posted 23 July 2008 inPublished 17 July 2008 by Flex Your PowerLast week, the California Building Standards Commission unanimously approved the nation’s first statewide green building code. The new rules will mandate that all new construction reduce energy use by 15%, water use by 20% and water for landscaping by 50%.
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Posted 22 July 2008 inPublished 20 July 2008 by USA TodaySome people, motivated by high fuel prices, are climbing into more fuel-efficient golf carts instead of cars. Police and other public agencies may follow suit. But will these non-standard vehicles be a hazard when they mix with traffic?
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Posted 21 July 2008 inPublished 20 July 2008 by The Philadelphia InquirerPennsylvania's ridges make wind energy a rising presence in the state's energy profile. And demand for wind turbines is creating new jobs, often housed in the old steel complexes.
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Posted 18 July 2008 inPublished 15 July 2008 by The Princeton PacketA simple tool helped the Princeton Public Library trim its energy use and expenses. Now they're making that tool available to the public, loaned out like a book, so individuals can understand how they're really using energy in their households.
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Posted 17 July 2008 inPublished 16 July 2008 by GristmillGrist's David Roberts tours biomass installations in rural Austria, looking at the elegance of combined heat and power from locally controlled sources.
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Posted 16 July 2008 inPublished 14 July 2008 by SeacoastOnline.comA number of communities in Maine are committing to combating global warming through various programs and initiatives. Some are signatories of the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement; others are taking other paths.
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Posted 11 July 2008 inPublished 11 July 2008 by The San Francisco ChronicleIf you expect conventional energy sources to keep getting more expensive, investing in a renewable source that's currently more expensive - like solar - makes more sense. San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit is doing just that, committing to pay nearly double its usual rates per megawatt for power from new solar installations.
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Posted 10 July 2008 inPublished 9 July 2008 by GristmillBuildings, their construction and maintenance, account for nearly half of U.S. energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. That means city councils and other code-setting entities are in the perfect position to make great strides in cutting energy use, and Architecture 2030 has tools to help.
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Posted 9 July 2008 inPublished 6 July 2008 by National League of CitiesIn many ways, Amsterdam and other Dutch cities have fostered urban environments that provide a wide range of transportation choices for residents and visitors. The result is vibrant cities and greatly reduced automotive use - not a cure-all for carbon woes, but a great step forward for climate viability and urban livability.
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Posted 8 July 2008 inPublished 11 June 2008 by The Boston GlobeLincoln Institute of Land Policy senior fellow Armando Carbonell writes about the importance of land use and transportation decisions to a coherent energy and climate policy.
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Posted 7 July 2008 inPublished 3 July 2008 by Mountain News | News and RecordCitizen groups have led efforts to address the issue of peak oil in Santa Fe, where a citizen's energy board is forming, and in Greensboro, N.C., where city government is starting to listen. Both articles quote Daniel Lerch and Post Carbon Cities.
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Posted 7 July 2008 inPublished 1 October 2007 by Nova Scotia: Open to the WorldAs the inevitable shadow of high-priced and carbon-emitting fossil fuels looms, Nova Scotia's municipality of Clare is sowing its own seeds of self-sufficiency, based on its kinship with a comparable community in Austria.
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Posted 27 June 2008 inPublished 27 June 2008 by Asbury Park Press (NJ)The North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority held a symposium to identify issues as it prepares to write its Regional Transportation Plan for the next 25 years. Post Carbon's Daniel Lerch spoke at this even about how peak oil is forcing planners and policymakers to change their assumptions about future transportation and land use patterns.
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Posted 27 June 2008 inPublished 27 June 2008 by DryDipstick.comMick Winter of Drydipstick.com reviews Post Carbon Cities: Planning for Energy and Climate Uncertainty. "Post Carbon Cities focuses on the basics: what the energy problem is, why it is, and what can be done about it. It brings home the effects that oil and gas depletion—and climate change—are apt to have (and indeed already have) on local governments."
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Posted 25 June 2008 inPublished 11 June 2008 by VentureBeatSan Francisco is looking to become the United States' "Berlin of solar power" in terms of installed solar capacity - and is backing up that goal with a solar rebate program that's the nation's highest local solar subsidy.
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Posted 24 June 2008 inPublished 23 June 2008 by Architecture 2030This week, Architecture 2030 released an unprecedented guide for every city, county and state in the nation to swiftly meet their greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets through existing building codes, asserting that meeting reduction targets through existing codes is the critical ‘missing piece’ to getting major reductions underway immediately.
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Posted 23 June 2008 inPublished 22 June 2008 by The Rutland HeraldIt may be June, but Vermont's Governor and legislature are planning for the potential emergency when high fuel prices and low temperatures coincide this coming winter. The Governor has created the Vermont Fuel and Food Partnership and established a Cabinet-level task force. The state legislature has called an emergency home heating meeting of the Joint Fiscal Committee, all in recognition that plans need to be made for the state's needs sooner rather than later.
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Posted 19 June 2008 inPublished by KPVI Newschannel 6Some Idaho Falls city officials are proposing construction of a fuel storage facility that in case of emergency could sustain services, like police and fire, for a month. They estimate that they would require 50,000 gallons of fuel.
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Posted 18 June 2008 inPublished 12 June 2008 by Vancouver SunVancouver, B.C.'s EcoDensity policies have been the subject of much debate, but they've become a fixture of the city's political and planning landscape, even after the term of the mayor who promoted them.
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