Environment
Preserving California's Coastline
County officials and activists will lobby for millions in state conservation dollars to saving precious coastal wetlands.
Fern Fronds Ferret Out Toxins
Scientists discover a fern that soaks up arsenic from soils; it may have the potential clean up thousands of contaminated soils.
Las Vegas:From 'Sin City' To 'Smog City'
Las Vegas has some of the worst air quality in the Western US. Lax enforcement of environmental laws at fault.
Growth Could Smother Rural Life
Leonard Becker of the St. Petersburg Times complains about the losses faced by rural communities throughout the country.
Earth Car Free Day
Earth Car Free Day is being celebrated this year on Thursday, April 19.
Call For Urban Forestry Proposals
Metropolitan areas are home to 80% of the Nation's population and 25% of the Nation's total tree canopy cover.
Proactive Ecological Review In LA County
The Regional Planning Commission is beginning its first review of significant ecological areas in 20 years.
Perrier's Controversial Plan To Tap Aquifers
Recent zoning changes favor Perrier's plan to pump out 720,000 gallons a day from Michigan aquifers. What will happen to the neighborhing wells, wetlands, and lakes?
Oregon's Land-use Laws Threatened
Oregon voters approved Measure 7 which threatens the state's green regulations and local zoning.
Superfund Refinancing: How Clean is Clean?
Next month almost 800 sites across New York awaiting cleanup will be left without funding.
Overwhelming Evidence Of Global Warming
Will the "strongest scientificevidence ever linking climate change to man's activities" convince President Bush to address global warming?
LA's Mega-Billboard Plan: Visual Blight?
What started out as a welcome effort to thin out the city's 7,000 billboards may become visual blight in Los Angeles.
Sonoma County Simplifies Recycling
The Sonoma County Waste Management Agency plans to adopt a "single-stream" recycling program.
Who's Responsibility Is Clean Air?
A new report by the State of California evaluates the responsibility for clean air among the state and local air districts.
Chesapeake Bay Conservation Projects Wanted
American Forests and the U.S. Forest Service are seeking proposals for conservation projects in the Chesapeake Bay region.
Florida Takes In 15-year Old Trash
Trash ash loaded on a ship in Philadelphia for disposal in 1986 and rejected by ports around the world might be coming ashore in Florida.
The Los Angeles River: An Urban Hell
Many people think that the L.A. River is a giant gutter. But now the flow of trash will stop, according to a landmark order.
Electric Car In Not Too Near Future
State air-quality officials voted to give Detroit more time to meet its electric car mandate.
Electric Cars Coming To CA By 2003
Despite objections from the automobile industry, the CA. Air Resources Board ordered the new cars to be here by 2003.
U.S. Cities Face Serious Infrastucture Problems
According to a study by the EPA, aging water and sewer systems in the nation's cities, and insufficient funds to repair them could cause serious problems.
FREE Course: Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?
After describing his path towards focusing on walkability as the essence of good planning, Jeff Speck marches through his five principal reasons for making more walkable places.
Reinventing Malls: Planning Alchemy—Turning Gray Fields Into Gold
The course focuses on the opportunities and imperatives that shape reinvention of mall sites.
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City of Thousand Oaks
City of Wisconsin Rapids
The Architects Foundation
University of Cincinnati Online
Northern Illinois Transit Authority (NITA)
The Pocatello Development Authority
The Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Pocatello
