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Leaders to meet in summer for special climate change talks - Climate Change, Environment - The Independent.
Obama has reportedly sent out a call for another summit, not for the economy of the world, but the greening of it. According to the linked [...]

I found this via @sheagunther on twitter. It’s a link to a blogpost he did concerning the cost of Mountaintop Removal for the coal industry. If you didn’t know yet, the EPA recently released a halt to all permits for coal mining via mountaintop removal. Shortly following a coal industry uprising (and I’m sure a [...]

Facebook | Greenpeace USA’s Notes.
This is a Greenpeace USA Facebook note about the presence of global warming control in the budget. I don’t care if you are republican or democrat, whether you like Bush, Obama, Reagan, whoever. Read this note, and if you need to, go to www.coal-is-clean.com, to read more about global warming and [...]

Streetsblog » Bloomberg Puts Forward a Bold, Transformative New Vision for Broadway.
NYC’s Mayor Bloomberg is taking one of Manhattan’s most well-known streets and pulling cars out of the equation. It makes sense…going to NYC last fall, I observed the tight corners and crazy alignment of Broadway compared to the rest of the grid [...]

Obama Plans Massive New High Speed Railroad : TreeHugger.
This is awesome. I had heard mention of Obama proposing bring rail back, but this sounds pretty great. The bit about the Midwest being a concentration point will be pretty crucial. It is reminiscent in some ways of the Interurban lines that used to crisscross all of Indiana. Not [...]