Communities

3 Local, Healthy Food Apps

One component of a sustainable community is a sustainable food system. The global food system has become extremely large and complex and has a huge environmental impact. Food products are produced, processed, and shipped around the world every day. This consumes energy and water, generates waste, and released greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. It .. read more

On November 8th, 2011, posted in: Communities, Technology by Chris

What are Sustainable Communities?

EG defines sustainable communities as those communities that are planned, designed, or modified to promote a sustainable future through economic development, transportation, environmental health, social equity, citizen participation, technology, and innovation. It is important for these communities to engage citizens and institutions in a collaborative manner to develop sustainability principles in order to achieve their .. read more

On October 27th, 2011, posted in: Communities by Chris

The Greenest Cities in the U.S.

Continuing with theme of the last post (Where Does Your State Rank in Energy Efficiency?) in this post we look at which individual cities are the greenest. Earlier in the year, The Daily Beast released a list of America’s 25 Greenest Cities. They looked at cities with populations of more than 100,000 people and rated .. read more

On October 26th, 2011, posted in: Communities, Trends by Chris

Where Does Your State Rank in Energy Efficiency?

The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) recently released a report ranking the 50 states (and Washington D.C.) based on their energy efficiency efforts. Each state was evaluated based on six policy areas on a scale of a maximum of 50 potential points. This year the most efficient state is Massachusetts, which beat out .. read more

On October 25th, 2011, posted in: Communities, Green Politics by Chris

The ‘Transition’ Model of Green Resilience

More than 40 people came out Tuesday night to the senior center next to the Acme at 10th and Passyunk in South Philly, to bat around the idea of making Philadelphia – or some part of the city – into a new Transition Town. If you have never heard of Transition Towns before, you’ve got .. read more

On February 8th, 2011, posted in: Communities by Chris

NYT: The Kensington Stranglehold

Diana Lind, editor of Next American City magazine, had a solid opinion piece in Monday’s New York Times, tying vacant lots and crime to jobs and the economy – in a manner well beyond the 30-year-old “broken windows” theory of policing and gentrification. She focuses on Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood, which “still shocks.” “The empty lots .. read more

On January 25th, 2011, posted in: Communities by Chris