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Creating “A Better Tomorrow” in America with Sustainable Transportation
February 9, 2010 – 12:26 am | No Comment

Creating “A Better Tomorrow” in America with Sustainable Transportation

Check out this video from America 2050, as part of its “A Better Tomorrow” project to create a “positive vision for the future of America built around investments in sustainable transportation and livable communities.”
No, the futuristic …

Senate Briefing Focuses on “Moving Cooler” Report
October 23, 2009 – 4:27 am | 4 Comments

Senate Briefing Focuses on “Moving Cooler” Report

A briefing hosted by the Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) yesterday delved into the transportation’s impact on carbon emissions and examined different strategies that can be incorporated into upcoming climate and transportation legislation to …

CGI Live Blogging: The Infrastructure of Place: Sustainability and the Built Environment
September 24, 2009 – 3:03 pm | One Comment

CGI Live Blogging: The Infrastructure of Place: Sustainability and the Built Environment

On the third day of the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting, experts came together to discuss “The Infrastructure of Place: Sustainability and the Built Environment,” as moderated by Vijay Vaitheeswaran, global correspondent for The Economist …

NYT on BRT: Great to See, A Bit Disappointing to Read
July 13, 2009 – 4:25 pm | One Comment

NYT on BRT: Great to See, A Bit Disappointing to Read

For a BRT advocate, it was really exciting to wake up this morning to a front-page, above-the-fold article in the New York Times, with Transmilenio as the central picture. Reading Elisabeth Rosenthal’s article, though, I …

Highlights from TheCityFix DC
July 8, 2009 – 4:36 pm | No Comment

Highlights from TheCityFix DC

A few highlights from our TheCityFix DC site-if you’re not reading it regularly, you’re missing out:
LEED Neighborhood Development Wants You to Build More More More: Why doesn’t LEED-ND certify already existing neighborhoods? It’s one more …

Montgomery County Moves to Urbanize
June 19, 2009 – 12:28 pm | No Comment

Montgomery County Moves to Urbanize

The BeyondDC newsfeed yesterday just blew my mind. Of yesterday’s five headlines, each and every one is about some part of Montgomery County embracing a more sustainable, more urban land use pattern. Let’s go through …

Introducing TheCityFix DC
June 15, 2009 – 3:57 pm | No Comment

Introducing TheCityFix DC

Aerial view of Washington, D.C. Photo by adam79.
Editor’s note:
TheCityFix.com is going local. Stay tuned for our online expansion, which will include local editions of our coverage in cities across the world, including Washington, D.C., where …

Winners of the Livable Streets Contest
May 29, 2009 – 3:23 pm | One Comment

Winners of the Livable Streets Contest

Steve Price won the Livable Streets Contest for his vision of a “complete street” in Portsmouth, Virginia.
Last week, GOOD announced the winners of its Livable Streets Contest.
It was a simple assignment: “Take a photo of …

GOOD Magazine: “Reinventing Our Wheels”
April 20, 2009 – 11:42 am | No Comment

GOOD Magazine: “Reinventing Our Wheels”

GOOD magazine published its jam-packed, 112-page “Transportation Issue,” devoted to a “drastic rethinking of how we move around, how we design our cities, and how we power our vehicles.”
The articles cover a lot of ground, …

Purple Line, the Musical?
April 16, 2009 – 2:54 pm | No Comment

Purple Line, the Musical?

The Purple Line, a proposed 16-mile transit line in Maryland’s D.C. suburbs, has inspired a new musical, titled “Tracks,” written by Paul Stregevsky, a Department of Homeland Security employee, and Marshall White, a high school …