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GreenLink: Grassroots Advocates for the Ohio Environment - Environmental Advocacy for Ohio Grassroots focused on Clean Water, Toxic Chemical Reductions and Urban Sprawl.
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- New images from Earth-observing satellites are documenting the effects of urban sprawl on the landscape, hinting at adverse long-term consequences related to the rapid growth of cities.
Best Practice
Urban Sprawl is low density, automobile dependent development beyond the edge of service and employment areas. It is ubiquitous and its effects are impacting the quality of life in every region of America, in our large cities and small towns
Funding Programs
The Funders’ Network is an active resource and focal point for foundations, nonprofit organizations and other partners working to solve the environmental, social, and economic problems created by suburban sprawl and urban disinvestment. It informs funders of critical policy and grassroots developments; enables program staff to share effective strategies and tools; builds the capacity of key constituencies to promote smart growth and livable communities; and raises awareness about the interdisciplinary nature of these issues and the need for sustained engagement by a diverse coalition of funders
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Chapter 9 from Lester Browní 2002 book, Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth. (Sub chapters An Urbanizing Species - Car-Centered Urban Sprawl - Urbanization and Obesity - Urban Rail and Bicycle Systems - Planning Cities for People
Case Study
Rehabilitation of existing buildings is important for several reasons. Redevelopment of urban areas preserves existing open space and helps reduce the amount of suburban sprawl. This improves the quality of life for the jurisdiction's residents and reduces the impact of development on the environment. Renovating existing buildings in urban areas conserves natural resources by requiring less building material than is used to construct a new structure.
Interview
Since the 1994 release of The Geography of Nowhere, author James Howard Kunstler has been among the most acerbic critics of North American urban design. Kunstler has argued that suburban sprawl has left citizens almost entirely dependent on cars, just as the world nears the historic peak of oil production. What happens after we pass that fossil fuel "tipping point"? That's the subject of Kunstler's latest book, The Long Emergency, in which the author describes the massive changes that Americans -- and their neighbours -- will experience as the age of cheap oil drips to a close.
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Tell Queen’s Park what YOU think about stopping urban sprawl! The provincial government wants your opinion about “smart growth” as part of their “smart growth” consultation. It’s critically important you let Queen’s Park know that ending urban sprawl must be the top goal of any “smart growth” program. Stopping sprawl will protect our precious natural areas, our water resources and our irreplaceable farmlands for the future. Growing smart within clear, tight, urban boundaries also saves taxpayers’ money compared to the high cost of extending services like roads, water lines and sewer pipes out into the countryside.
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