The CivicSpark program gives recent college graduates a chance to help local governments implement climate-smart projects.
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The Just Growth Circle coalition provides a different model for cities to address complex issues of health, water, climate, housing, jobs, and racial equity.
If we implement the equivalent of matinee pricing on our roads, we can all play a part in solving the traffic congestion problem.
Science can’t be dictated in political documents. Disparaging climate change won’t prevent increasingly violent storms or more extreme heat.
The DC Department of Transformation is helping cyclists and pedestrians one plunger, or traffic cone, or ad hoc handstand, at a time.
Leveraged successfully, the new federal Opportunity Zones can help build a green economy and advance social equity.
Meet the people and organizations working hard to ensure DC’s "food desert" neighborhoods have access to high-quality, affordable food again.
Just as the Dutch stood up and created some of the most cycling friendly streets on the planet, so too can New Yorkers, Londoners, and others around the world.
Vallejo, California is a great case study in what makes a good city — social offerings, aesthetics, and open access to nature.
To admit to the beauty of the natural world is to resist the modern habit of disregard for nature’s value. It is time to talk openly about the importance of beauty as the value that pervades life and as the value that increases human wellbeing.