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Planning a Post-Carbon World: The City of North Vancouver and the 100 Year Plan
by Patrick Condon
 The City of North Vancouver’s 100 Year Sustainability Vision represents perhaps the first attempt to use greenhouse gas reduction targets to inform the long-term design of a city. From the beginning the project was intended to turn knowledge into policy, and to achieve these policy objectives through a deeply democratic and participatory process. Participants were charged with producing a workable long-range plan with two key future targets: an 80 percent per capita reduction in greenhouse gas production by 2050, and a 100 percent reduction by 2100.
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The Digital Cathedral in the Age of Democratic Sustainability
by Peter W. Bardaglio
How can the digital revolution and the new social media it has spawned nurture the development of democratic sustainability? By democratic sustainability I mean a social and political process that engages citizens as active agents of social change in the complex task of balancing economic prosperity, effective environmental stewardship, and social justice. Moving toward democratic sustainability has less to do with technology than a massive change in human consciousness, one that encourages systems thinking and transforms the relations of people to each other and to natural world.
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Isn't it Time to Dig Vertical Farming?
by Chris Bradford
Vertical farming offers a way to conduct large-scale agriculture using recycled resources and hydroponics. It is the practice of growing plants without soil in vertical environments, allowing for the production of fruit and vegetables in spaces outside of traditional farms. The agricultural approach is no longer a pie-in-the-sky concept. While the practice of vertical farming is still in its infancy, its future is truly green.
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Open Data and Government 2.0
by Nate Berg
Data is the future of cities and governance, according to a growing collection of urban thinkers, government officials, and civic-minded web developers. And if data’s the future, the future is now. It’s being called Government 2.0, as in the newest version of government. It’s also a nod to the idea of Web 2.0, the evolving concept of an Internet where users are as much observers as participants. And that’s exactly what advocates of Government 2.0 are envisioning for citizens—a fusion of the role of citizen and participant.
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Virtuality: The Splenda of Existence
by Rachel Shaw
That there’s something lacking in the experience of many Americans and peoples of the developed world is increasingly hard to deny. That we live in a world facing large-scale environmental problems is clear. Anyone who takes the time to work his or her way through the science quickly becomes overwhelmed with the instances. But it’s not a scientific awareness of these problems that I’m driving at.
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Dockside Green
Victoria, British Columbia
by Ken Pirie
 Dockside Green is a project that presents a breathtaking model of urban regeneration, brownfield reuse, green design, and community building.
The 15-acre development includes three neighborhoods to be built out over ten years, housing a planned 2,500 residents, and featuring neighborhood-level commercial uses and open space. The LEED-certified development features its own biomass energy plant, membrane bioreactor package wastewater treatment plant, and other state-of-the-art resource efficiency measures.
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How to Draw a Glass Mountain: Los Angeles and the Architecture of Segregation
A Hypertext Photo Essay by Aisha Sloan
 In the City of Angels, you can live in a hillside house where the courtyard juts into the sky and spills out over a precipice. There are walls made out of glass, creating the illusion that what lies outside — trees, a thousand city lights, or the yellow desert hills — is a part of your living room.
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The Book of Water
by Joe Wilkins, with Audio
I was born in drought. For a quick moment my father held my red, wet body. Then he set me in my mother’s arms and drove through the star-cut spring dark the 90 miles back to our sheep and hay ranch out on the Big Dry of eastern Montana.
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The Road to Crownpoint
Essay by Kurt Caswell
Illustration by Susan Leigh Tomlinson
 Rain fell softly across the windshield of my truck as I crossed the cattle guard at the school entrance and drove out the empty dirt road northwest to Crownpoint. The sky was light over there, dark over here. Sun pulsed in and out of the truck windows.
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The Place and the Photograph
by Lex Runciman, with Stonehenge Photo Gallery
To anyone who has seen it and genuinely tried to take it in, Stonehenge remains a challenge and a puzzle. On a January morning, the site can easily absorb the few people likely to have arisen early enough and determined enough to brave the weather.
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Four Dispatches from the Interface
by Charles Goodrich, with Audio
Still, I study his every move. My mother used to tell me, “Don’t be half a fool.” That’s why I bow to the master, who has just gotten stuck in a foxglove. Humming and shoving, he shimmies back out, combs his antennae with his forelegs and zooms away, my mentor, my implacable guru.
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 Machete Maneuvers
by Rachel Furey, with Audio
Magnolia branches don’t cut easily, but Riley has a machete. She realizes there are times when a bow saw or shovel or loppers would be better suited for clearing trail, but she uses the machete for almost everything. She especially loves days like today when she can hold the machete after it has been sitting under the hot Mississippi sun.
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 The Glory of Ned Wiley
by Braden Hepner
Ned Wiley stood on the scaffolding in a blue nylon jacket, a decal of running horses peeling on the back. He set his trowel down and hunched over and his small frame curled like his cupped hand as he lit a cigarette. He wore a tall cap, its brim pulled low over his eyes, and for a moment as he smoked he looked across the road where a river-bottom swamp sprawled out and the red late-summer sky blazed up the lily-pad ponds and set the expanse afire.
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 Holding Patterns
by Bette Lynch Husted
Annie had followed him halfway across the yard before she turned toward the pasture and grove of pines beyond it, her thin soles already wearing a light rim of spring mud. He took the stairs one at a time, reaching out on the landing to touch the wall. In their bedroom he loosened the striped tie and looped it around the neck of the hanger, worked the slick trousers onto the wooden bar with the crease hanging straight.
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 Estrella, Extranjero
by Chavawn Kelley
Beads of condensation stream down the windows of the Buckhorn Bar, where bodies are close-packed and talk is loud. January in Laramie. Steam and breath collect against the night-chilled panes. Good night, José! Hope you don’t live far!, his companions from the wood mill call. The heavy door closes on half-sentences and sweet, stale smoke and beer. His will be a natural death in that nature is involved.
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Padma Viswanathan
Author
Interviewed by
Patrick Burns
"The essential values, such as respect for elders, loyalty to clan and place, the puzzling beauty of ritual and tradition, are ones that transcend this place and culture. I tend to think it’s the particularities that are fascinating, even while it’s those essential values that make it possible for us, in a very different time and place, to identify with these people who seem so different from us."
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