cities

Michael Bloomberg to the Rescue on Environment

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer Ban Ki-moon, Bloomberg, C20, c40, cities, Cities Climate Leadership Group, climate change, foundation, Framework Convention on Climate Change, Hank Paulson, New York City, oceans, philanthropy, Risky Business, Tom Steyer, Trump, Vibrant Oceans Initiative

Thanks to charitable giving & leadership of cities on climate change, Michael Bloomberg may go down in history as one of the great environmentalists…

Sustainable Cities

Interview: Transportation Visionary Gabe Klein

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EarthTalk’s Ethan Goffman interviews transportation visionary Gabe Klein on the importance of carsharing, bikesharing and technological efficiency in bringing our commutes into the 21st century…

Sustainable Cities

Interview: Stewart Schwartz

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In 1997, Stewart Schwartz founded the Coalition for Smarter Growth to fight sprawl and support public transit and walkable communities in the Washington, DC region. Schwartz is also an attorney and a retired Navy Captain with 24 years of active and reserve duty. He has served with the President’s Council on Sustainable Development, the Land […]

Sustainable Cities

Bounce Forward

E The Environmental Magazine cities, Island Press, Kresge Foundation, report, resilience, urban

In an era rocked by severe weather events and other disruptions, our cities must be resilient to survive and thrive. But what does that mean, exactly? A new report, Bounce Forward: Urban Resilience in the Era of Climate Change, sets out to answer that question. Bounce Forward was prepared by the Island Press Urban Resilience […]

Sustainable Cities

On the Nature of Cities—and the Future of Conservation

Robert I. McDonald air quality, Bill McKibben, c40, cities, E.O. Wilson, Emma Marris, health, ICLEI, International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Kresge Foundation, Nature Conservancy, Rockefeller Foundation, stormwater management, sustainable development, Times Square, World Bank, World Wide Fund for Nature, wwf

More than 25 years ago, author and activist Bill McKibben famously declared the end of nature. Defining “nature” as wild places essentially untouched by people, McKibben argued that our collective environmental impact—especially our alteration of the planet’s climate—has left nothing on Earth in pristine condition. By this definition, McKibben was right: Nature is dead. And, […]

Reading List

Parking Management for Smart Growth

E The Environmental Magazine book, cities, development, Island Press, parking, Parking Management for Smart Growth, planning, Richard W. Wilson, sustainable

In Parking Management for Smart Growth, planning professor and parking expert Richard W. Wilson provides a path forward for strategic parking management in a new era of tighter parking supplies. He asserts that without parking management, parking has become a free-for-all—a competitive sport—with arbitrary winners and losers. Historically drivers have been the overall winners in having free […]

Carl Stokes at Cuyahoga River, Cleveland

Reading List

Where the River Burned

E The Environmental Magazine blight, cities, Cleveland, Erie, pollution, river, sustainable development, urban, urban planning

In Where the River Burned: Carl Stokes and the Struggle to Save Cleveland (Cornell University Press, $28.45), University of Cincinnati historian David Stradling and Raleigh News & Observer editor Richard Stradling recount how Carl Stokes, the first African American mayor of a major U.S. city, worked to transform Cleveland in the early 1970s (where pollution set the Cuyahoga River on […]