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Urban Planners Make You Fat

Georgian London, with green squares everywhere April recently wrote Bike-Happy, Ped-Friendly Cities Less Obese , but how do they get that way? George Monbiot writes that “We are, to a surprising extent, what the built environment makes us,” quoting a series of studies which show trees make us more social, quiet areas are friendlier and vegetation reduces crime. He also notes the relationship between urban planning and body mass index: … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Inspiring Film: Uniting Government Policy With Grassroots Action (Video)

Image credit: Low Carbon Communities Challenge Even conservatives cheered when one Transition Town received a huge Government check , and with good reason. As part of the massive Low Carbon Communities Challenge the idea, for once, was to explore how grassroots groups could work together with Government, rather than the usual false choice between either top-down or bottom-up approaches to sustainability. I’ve just come acr… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Inspiring Film: Uniting Government Policy With Grassroots Action (Video)