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  • News:After Olympics, China Still Worried About Clean Air for Beijing

    By Natural Resources Defense Council June 19, 2009

    Air quality of Beijing was a focal point both before and during the Olympic Games. After the Olympics, the topic faded out of the media , but Beijing is still working hard to keep the sky blue. According to the Beijing Environment Protection Bureau, from January 1, 2009 to June 9, 2009, 81 percent...

  • Opinion:Anti-Treeism in NYC -- "Not on My Sidewalk"

    By Natural Resources Defense Council November 23, 2009

    By Heather Greaves As I've mentioned before , some people just don't seem to like trees very much, and some of the more dramatic incidents of anti-treeism made it into my pervious posts. But in the last couple of weeks, I've been spending some time at the NYC Parks Department helping...

  • Opinion:Cities Plan for Growth, But Forget About New Schools

    By Natural Resources Defense Council June 03, 2009

    by Scott Dodd New York magazine featured a great story last week on school overcrowding in Manhattan. What struck me -- aside from concerns about how my own kid might fare -- was this passage about the city's failure to anticipate that New York's success in retaining families over the...

  • Research:Does Your City Rank Among Greenest Commuting Habits?

    By Natural Resources Defense Council October 05, 2009

    by Kaid Benfield Big-time kudos to Bike Pittsburgh for combing through new census data to extract and rank the commuting habits of the 60 largest US cities. The data chart on the organization's website , naturally, opens up with the ranking of bicycle commuting: Portland is number one...

  • Opinion:Want to Help the Environment? -- Move to the City

    By Competitive Enterprise Institute October 27, 2009

    A few years ago, environmental guru, Merry Prankster, and Whole Earth Catalog author Stewart Brand caused a minor stir with an article he wrote in the MIT publication, Technology Review . Brand, who was an early advocate of the “back to the land” movement of the 1960s and...

  • News:New York City Drivers Filled With Most Road Rage

    By Opposing Views Editorial Staff June 16, 2009

    Those of the opinion that New York City residents are angry and aggressive now have actual research to back up their claim. A new survey says New York drivers have the worst road rage of any city in the United States. New York takes the dubious title from Miami, which topped the list for the past...

  • News:Woman to Give Birth Live on Internet-Would You Watch?

    By Opposing Views Editorial Staff November 03, 2009

    A Minneapolis woman is due to give birth November 19 -- and she is inviting the entire world to watch the delivery on the Internet. This, of course, raises the question: Is this something you would watch, or is it a personal, private moment that shouldn't be seen by outsiders? Lynsee (age 23 and...