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Bird's eye view of urban sprawl
2015-09-12 10:21:33| Real Estate - Topix.net
DO YOUR Mondays need rescuing? Best-selling author Jon Acuff says we all need to switch up our work lives with this simple equation. SELLING your home? Real estate agents pocketed an extra $68 million in commissions last month alone.
Urban Sprawl Wrecking Italian Farmland through Landslides
2015-09-09 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
ITALY – Reduced rainfall infiltration caused by concreting over grasslands is putting rural communities at risk from landslides, warns an Italian farm group.
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Southern Sprawl
2015-05-16 05:02:40| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
You may suffer from sticker shock when you hear how much 15 acres of land in southern Sioux Falls just sold for: $5.7 million. That's how much car dealer Schulte Subaru paid for the land at 85th and Minnesota, across from the new Walmart that's going in.
Energy Sprawl: Comparing biodiversity impacts oil, gas and wind production
2015-05-08 17:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Energy has become a contentious and politicized topic, spurring activism, whether it be the fossil fuel divestment campaign, Keystone pipeline protests, or concern over wind turbine harm to birds. But whatever energy future we choose, two things are clear: an expanding human population will need more energy, and no matter what energy source we pick, it will have landscape-scale impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services. In a recent extensive literature review, scientists Nathan F. Jones,...
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Urban Sprawl, Cars Hamper Cities Best Efforts on CO2
2015-04-07 01:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: There's no way to drive around it: Commuting to work behind the steering wheel emits carbon dioxide and contributes to climate change. Dense cities are pretty good at keeping those tailpipe emissions low when measured on a per-person basis because many commuters often use trains and buses to get to work. Less dense cities, on the other hand, see more people driving to work from distant suburbs, usually leading to more tailpipe emissions. A Boston University study published Monday in the Proceedings...
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