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Summitgoers Push for Sustainable Cities

Green Lifestyle  (tags: sustainable cities, eco cities, Ecocity World Summit conference, San Francisco, Ecocity Builders, peak oil, green energy )

Larry
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- 73 days ago - sfgate.com
The overall conference theme was of reversing our 60-year trend of sprawl development and building or redeveloping far more compact cities - before we run out of the energy and money to do so. One panel was, "Why Better Cars Build Worse Cities," and...
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Larry Sheehy (291)
Saturday May 10, 2008, 9:03 am
Resources

-- www.ecocityworldsummit.org/index2.htm

-- "Ecocities: Building Cities in Balance With Nature" (revised edition) by Richard Register (New Society Publishers; $23.95; 368 pages; 2006)

Philip S. Wenz writes the column Your Ecological House, which appears in the Home&Garden section. E-mail him at home@sfchronicle.com.
 

Carol C. (13)
Wednesday May 14, 2008, 10:27 am
Good information to share!
 
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