Marc Lefkowitz | 02/28/19 @ 2:00pm | Posted in Explore, Live, Transform
Here are some of the most important sustainability stories that are emerging thus far in 2019. If you know of another important sustainability story, please share it in the Comments section.
Marc Lefkowitz | 02/15/19 @ 3:00pm | Posted in Climate, Land, Water, Plants & animals, Shaping the land
They have been gathering for years to advocate for nature in Northeast Ohio. They are park rangers, wetlands biologists, wildlife specialists, and conservationists getting their hands dirty on a daily basis in natural areas. Increasingly, they have become the voice for nature in a region that has lost many acres of forests and wetlands to unplanned development.
Marc Lefkowitz | 02/08/19 @ 1:00pm | Posted in Transportation choices
Ohio’s transportation fund has run out, and an emergency effort this week by state lawmakers to find tens of millions of dollars has come with heavy pressure to raise the tax on gas at the pump.
Marc Lefkowitz | 02/07/19 @ 11:00am | Posted in Vibrant cities
At last night’s Cleveland Heights Architectural Board of Review, a roomful of residents showed up to lodge complaint against the Top of the Hill development as currently proposed. While local business owners, like Cedar-Fairmount Special Improvement District President, Sal Russo, also appeared, to speak in support, the mainstay of comments seemed to focus on the mass and height of the...
Marc Lefkowitz | 01/03/19 @ 2:00pm | Posted in Vibrant cities, Transportation choices
Most urban planners don’t get their own cartoon character or form a following of groupies, but then UCLA Professor Donald Shoup doesn’t think like most planners. When it comes to unpacking parking — and how whole cities and suburbs have been built around it — Shoup isn’t boxed in. Parking is a science, and Shoup's book, The High Cost of Free...
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