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Shades for a Planet
Add a new word to your lexicon: geoengineering – the idea of deliberately altering the earth’s natural systems (as opposed to the unintended altering humanity has always done). Today’s New York Times features an article (How to Cool a Planet, Maybe) on the idea of massive programs to alter the reflectivity of the atmosphere and…
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New Look Exercise # 3
See the initial post for the rules and background. Here’s the third set of outcomes. We will know the region’s economy is healthy when…
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Take the Big Look Survey
“Big Look”, “New Look”, are you confused yet? The Big Look is the state-wide reexamination of the land use planning system. The New Look is the regional update of our land use, transportation and investment strategies to help us plan for the 1 million or so new folks who will show up in the next…
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New Look Exercise # 2
See the initial post for the rules and background. Here’s the second set of outcomes. We will know our land use and transportation infrastructure is efficient when… My answer: household expenditures on transportation drop to 10% of all household expenditures (currently about 15% in our region).
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New Look Exercises
Friday was the infamous first New Look Regional Forum, which opened with an apology for the $30 registration fee. Hopefully that’s the last to be said of that issue. I was there for about 2/3rds of the forum (sadly I had to leave for a City Club Forum on one of my favorite subjects). I…