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Stop climate change: Move to the city, start walking By Jeff Speck, salon.com Climate change is helped along by suburban driving culture. We need to embrace cities — and walking In 2001, Scott Bernstein, at the Center for Neighborhood Technology in inner-city Chicago, produced a set of maps that are still chang… http://flpbd.it/KtKdq Related articles … Continue reading Scott Bernstein: move to the city and start walking
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