Marc Lefkowitz
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Talking Transit Crisis, Solutions With GCRTA CEO Joe Calabrese
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What can state and local leaders do to prevent the transit crises brought on by the long-expected end of a medical care organization sales taxes?
When Climate Change Is Natural and When It Very Clearly Is Not
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Timing is everything, and that includes climate change.
Cleveland Braces Against Climate Change With Resilience Plan
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Amid disturbing reports this week that climate change has already started to erode public health after a disaster-filled autumn and studies that major branches of the animal kingdom are stressed and finding it difficult to reproduce — a mounting...
Nature Is Potent Weapon to Defeat Climate Change
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The next time you’re in the grocery store and pick up your favorite snack food, turn the box over and look for “palm oil” in the ingredients list.
University Circle Expands Transit Link to Little Italy and Coventry
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I have been working with other sustainable transportation advocates in their respective University Circle workplaces to convene a Sustainable Transportation Advisory Committee. With 45,000 employees packed into a two square mile area, the stakes of this mission are high.
Resilience Is In the Water
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In the 2013 book "Resilience in Ecology and Urban Design" Kelly Shannon of the Oslo School of Architecture defines resilient cities as those that “bend from harm.”
A Vision for Resilience in a Post-Climate Change World
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Climate scientists have produced a great body of work modeling the impact of climate change, but the art of green and blue urbanism is still in its infancy.
Finding Equity When a City Reduces Its Environmental Impact
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Cleveland is updating its 2013 Carbon Action Plan this year, convening a group of 50 stakeholders to share ideas on improving the reach and impact of the existing plan.
10 Most Important Climate Steps
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How can Cleveland make meaningful strides in reducing carbon emissions in order to meet the goals set in the Paris Climate Accord?
From Fairway to Deep Green Subdivision
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As games like golf become outmoded, huge swaths of green space become available. Prime examples abound in Northeast Ohio.
Everybody’s for Equity, But Who Walks the Talk?
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Over the last decade, complete streets have been firmly established with urban planners, biking, transit and health advocates as a central tenet to improved access and safety on roads largely built for the convenience of cars.Now, the national group o...
Big #Transit Gathering in #CLE Raises Prospects
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More than 100 people showed up on a Wednesday evening in Cleveland to participate in a discussion about the future of transit in Northeast Ohio.