Climate Change

ARB Climate Change Plan Criticized By Both Sides

The CA Air Resources Board unveiled its final ‘scoping plan’ to meet the climate change targets set in the landmark 2006 law, AB 32. Business groups condemned it for its costs while land use planners criticized it for not doing more to curb sprawl.
17 October 2008 - 8:00am
San Francisco Chronicle

Climate Change Actually Is A Matter of Individual Choice

A new study finds that 65% of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. are under the direct or indirect control of individuals. However, many of those habits are difficult to change given land uses.
6 October 2008 - 8:00am
The Wall St. Journal

BP's Chief Scientist Advocates Higher Gas Prices

BP's chief scientist provides his insight into solving the energy and climate crises, including the affect of higher gas prices and separating transportation from the heat and power sectors when dealing with strategies to reduce carbon emissions.
29 September 2008 - 12:00pm
Technology Review (MIT)

Dangerous Pockets of Methane Gas Discovered

Scientists along Russia's northern coast are reporting that methane, a greenhouse gas twenty times more potent than carbon dioxide, is being released into the atmosphere at an alarming new rate.
25 September 2008 - 1:00pm
The Independent

Please Tax My Carbon

Fri, 07/11/2008 - 09:22

North American (United States and Canada) policy generally favors low energy prices, with low taxes, production subsidies and other types of energy industry support. As a result, North Americans are energy rich: an average worker can purchase more fuel per hour of labor than almost any other time or place. In response North Americans have developed energy intensive lifestyles and industrial practices, have failed to implement many energy conservation practices common in other parts of the world, and consume more energy per capita than most other times and places.

Climate Plan Shows California Can Be A Leader

It has been a long time since the State of California was a public policy innovator. But a draft plan for implementing a greenhouse gas reduction law places California right on the cutting edge.
7 July 2008 - 5:00am
California Planning & Development Report

Climate Change Changing Assumptions on Land Use, Energy

Critic John King reflects on how common assumptions of Bay Area residents about urban growth boundaries and protesting nuclear power are challenged by the growing problem of climate change and energy access.
2 July 2008 - 9:00am
The San Francisco Chronicle

Mike Davis Reflects on the Meaning of Dubai

Mike Davis wonders if the excesses of Dubai portend a rapidly-warming and deteriorating world of diverging urban fortunes, where a minority live in eco-friendly luxury, while most endure polluted squalor.
27 June 2008 - 1:00pm
TomDispatch

The Quest for Energy: The Input/Output Problem

Tue, 06/24/2008 - 09:00

In August of 2006, an unknown Irish company called Steorn took out a full-page ad in The Economist to announce that they had created a magnetic technology that produced more energy than it used- essentially, a perpetual motion machine, the Holy Grail of energy.

Bangla-Doomed?

Rising sea levels caused by global climate change are predicted to swallow the country of Bangladesh by the end of the century.
21 June 2008 - 1:00pm
Belfast Telegraph

Will We All Become 'Envirogees'?

Climate change, desertification and resource wars are displacing millions of people, and threaten to turn us all into environmental refugees, warns Scott Thill.
3 June 2008 - 6:00am
AlterNet

Sweden Tops All Nations As Climate-Friendly

One country stands out in Europe in surpassing the greenhouse gas emission reductions required by the Kyoto Protocol - Sweden. While it used several environmental technologies to achieve those reductions, experts give credit to its carbon tax.
10 May 2008 - 5:00am
The Guardian

The Next Steps Toward A Sustainable Sacramento

The Sacramento region has become a national model for smart growth planning. But what, asks Bill Fulton, will it take to make the region sustainable for decades to come?
28 April 2008 - 9:00am
California Planning & Development Report

San Francisco's Bay Area Growth May Change With Climate

Officials forecast need to adapt development model: to retreat from some areas, build in others, and reduce reliance on cars.
22 April 2008 - 6:00am
The San Francisco Chronicle

Time to Adapt to a Warmer World is Now

Public officials and scientists are starting to say that adaptation to climate change is just as important as trying to stem climate change. One way to adapt is to embrace smart growth principles that reduce energy usage, according to this article.
17 April 2008 - 2:00pm
California Planning & Development Report

Planning Cities In The Age Of Global Warming

A recent conference hosted by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy focused on how planners around the world are designing urban areas that respond to the impacts of climate change.
16 April 2008 - 9:00am
MIT Technology Review

Water Supply Crisis Facing 36 States

Rising temperatures, shrinking ice packs and the salinization of coastal fresh water sources are all contributing to a growing water crisis in the United States.
7 April 2008 - 7:00am
Natural News

How Housing Choices Affect Climate Change

NPR's Climate Connections series explores how American's lifestyles affect climate change. In this first of two articles, Elizabeth Shogren introduces an Emory University researcher who moves out of Atlanta into her 'dream house' in the suburbs.
7 April 2008 - 6:00am
National Public Radio

Best Ideas of the Week

Fri, 04/04/2008 - 16:00

Another week has passed, and some more exciting and interesting ideas have taken root in the world of urban planning.

The Burn and the Boom of Climate Change in Alaska

Climate change will probably be pretty devastating for coastal Alaska, but it could also bring a boom to the area's economy, according to a recent report.
31 March 2008 - 2:00pm
Juneau Empire
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