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B.C. backs LED street lights

by CK Staff

British Columbia is making it easier for the province’s cities and towns to convert their street lighting to more efficient and longer-lasting

Built Environment

How heritage helps the planet

by Ashley Renders

Heritage preservation, which has traditionally been populated by an older group of experts, is being shaken up as young people learn that

Illustration by Jillian Tamaki
Built Environment/Climate Crisis/Fall 2013/Health & Lifestyle/Waste

Debating population

by Naomi Buck

Twenty years ago, I and a small group of undergrads from various American universities flew into Lagos on a muggy January evening.

Depiction of suburbia in the 20th Century Fox feature film "Edward Scissorhands"
Built Environment/Health & Lifestyle/Leadership/Spring 2013

Donut filling

by Dave Thompson

Nobody wants to live in a city that is unsustainable. A truly sustainable city can be defined as one that does not

Illustration by Jesse Lefkowitz
Built Environment/Spring 2013/Transportation

Pay as you drive

by Tyler Hamilton

When Bern Grush co-founded the company Skymeter in 2002 he thought his GPS-based smart metering system for vehicles would be a big hit

density Illustration by Julianna Brion
Built Environment/Health & Lifestyle/Perspectives/Spring 2013/Sustainable Book Reviews

Does dense equal sustainable?

by Lloyd Alter

It has become accepted wisdom that density is a good thing, as part of the notion that cities should grow, adapt and

Tree pruning in Durham, North Carolina. Photo by Ildar Sagdejev
2013 Sustainable Cities/Built Environment/Energy/Leadership/Spring 2013

Shifting from grey to green

by Faisal Moola

Despite being a vast continent of forests, fields, farmland, mountains and ice, North America is an urban society. In Canada, for example,

Lagos, Nigeria. Photo by Stefan Magdalinski
2013 Sustainable Cities/Built Environment/Leadership/Spring 2013

Jumbo shrimp

by Daniel Hoornweg

North America’s big cities are getting smaller relative to their peers on a growing world stage

car sharing
Connected Planet/Social Enterprise/Spring 2013/Transportation

Own or share?

by Roberta Staley

Everything in life is somewhere else,” wrote American author and essayist E.B. White, “and you get there in a car.” No truer

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