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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…

June 27, 2006
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…

June 27, 2006
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…

June 27, 2006
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).

June 26, 2006
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…

June 26, 2006

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