National Links: Amazon Milks Farms for Profits
The generational wealth lost to freeway development, embedded car culture in Kansas City, highway boondoggles that cost billions and other discouraging national news.
Category: Climate
Thoughts on Being a Car-Free Family
Learn how a 50-year-old woman, who’s never had a driver’s license, and her partner inspired their children to a more climate-friendly way of life.
Can You Imagine One Day a Week Without a Car?
Several local transportation and advocacy groups have banded together in a weeks-long celebration dubbed Car-Free MSP as a lead-up to World Car-Free Day on September 22. See how participating can leave a positive impact.
Issue Climate Bonds, Inspired by War Bonds
Imagine U.S. citizens buying hundreds of billions of dollars of climate bonds for sustainable development and to build a sustainable economy, based on good-paying clean-energy jobs, while reducing our production of harmful greenhouse gasses.
National Links: Wildfire Sprinklers
In Spain, two towns have erected a tower system, called the Guardian Project, to slow encroaching wildfires.
Young Authors Speak Out on Climate Justice
The creators of 826 MSP center BIPOC youth voices. They believe what young people write matters, and they amplify youth voices to effect change.
National Links: Colorado Transportation Changes Course
California’s potential mega-flood, how Stuttgart launched the beginnings of an urban forest just before World War II and more news about our Big Blue Marble.
National Links: The Politics of Air Conditioning
Remember when air conditioning was a luxury for the well off? Few people under 50 do, in the climate-controlled United States. Is our current comfort compromising our future’s heat index?
Learn from Baltic Nations, Get Northern Lights Train on Track
Investment in the Northern Lights Express would decrease traffic jams, infrastructure wear and tear, and the poisonous pollution of vehicle exhaust along Interstate 35.
National Links: Charlotte Transit Ridership Drops; Cities Don’t Need to be Heat Traps
This weekly feature allows Streets.mn readers to glean the best urbanist ideas from across the country and to get inspired for action on climate, equity and livability closer to home.