A briefing hosted by the Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) yesterday delved into the transportation’s impact on carbon emissions and examined different strategies that can be incorporated into upcoming climate and transportation legislation to …

On the third day of the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting, experts came together to discuss “The Infrastructure of Place: Sustainability and the Built Environment,” as moderated by Vijay Vaitheeswaran, global correspondent for The Economist …

For a BRT advocate, it was really exciting to wake up this morning to a front-page, above-the-fold article in the New York Times, with Transmilenio as the central picture. Reading Elisabeth Rosenthal’s article, though, I …

A few highlights from our TheCityFix DC site-if you’re not reading it regularly, you’re missing out:
LEED Neighborhood Development Wants You to Build More More More: Why doesn’t LEED-ND certify already existing neighborhoods? It’s one more …

The BeyondDC newsfeed yesterday just blew my mind. Of yesterday’s five headlines, each and every one is about some part of Montgomery County embracing a more sustainable, more urban land use pattern. Let’s go through …

Aerial view of Washington, D.C. Photo by adam79.
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Steve Price won the Livable Streets Contest for his vision of a “complete street” in Portsmouth, Virginia.
Last week, GOOD announced the winners of its Livable Streets Contest.
It was a simple assignment: “Take a photo of …

Illustration by via GOOD Magazine.
GOOD magazine published its jam-packed, 112-page “Transportation Issue,” devoted to a “drastic rethinking of how we move around, how we design our cities, and how we power our vehicles.”
The articles …

The playwright imagines a Purple Line train platform like this one, at MARC Brunswick Line’s Barnesville station. Photo via Tracks: The Musical.
The Purple Line, a proposed 16-mile transit line in Maryland’s D.C. suburbs, has inspired …

In Washington, D.C., about 41% of people drive to work; 38.5% take public transportation. Photo by ehpien.
The Urban Land Institute recently published a report about the “cost of place” in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan region, …