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How is public transit doing in the US?
From Canada’s bus abundance to tech-bro transit fantasies, Jarrett Walker dismantles the myths and shows what an effective system really looks like.
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David Roberts
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1:03:49
Canada's largest sustainable community takes shape
How a former municipal airport in oil-rich Alberta is becoming a carbon-neutral neighborhood for 30,000 people.
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David Roberts
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1:01:18
Why housing is a pass/fail question for climate
Housing is a climate issue we can't afford to ignore — Matthew Lewis explains why.
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David Roberts
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1:23:05
How to cram EV fast chargers into tight urban spaces
NYC’s Revel is trying to build urban EV fast chargers and demand for those chargers (in the form of its own EV rideshare network) simultaneously. In…
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David Roberts
5
1:11:09
What's the deal with Passive House?
Beverly Craig of the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center discusses what passive house building principles entail, the benefits they generate for building…
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David Roberts
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1:01:07
How much can urban land use policy do for the climate?
Urbanists like to say that dense, walkable urban land use is a powerful climate tool. But what kind of emissions can urban land use really reduce? What…
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David Roberts
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55:31
What's the deal with district energy?
District energy -- in which a group of buildings share a common source of heating & cooling -- dates back at least to the Roman Empire, but the…
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David Roberts
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59:59
Washington state Democrats are tackling the housing crisis
Several historic housing bills passed the Washington state legislature this year, including one that would legalize "missing middle" housing on every…
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David Roberts
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1:25:23
Getting rooftop solar onto low- and middle-income housing
Vero Bourg-Meyer of the Clean Energy States Alliance discusses the lack of rooftop solar on low- and middle-income homes, the state and foundation…
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David Roberts
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57:00
Taking carbon out of the air and putting it into concrete
A newly announced project will combine two cutting-edge processes: one will pull CO2 out of the ambient air; the other will inject the CO2 into…
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David Roberts
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1:00:00
Decarbonizing US transportation with an eye toward global justice
To decarbonize US transportation, we have to electrify vehicles, which means more demand for lithium & more nasty mining. But the number of vehicles is…
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David Roberts
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1:18:04
Fine, we're doing gas stoves
Earlier this month, gas stoves exploded into the news. Overnight, it seems everyone had an opinion. What's going on? With campaigner Sage Welch, I dig…
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