by Jane Richey | Jun 21, 2013 | Agenda 21
Planners hope to draw visitors into Bethlehem’s Eastern Gateway with traffic calming measures, art installations and signs. This afternoon, the RBA Group presented its ideas about the future of the neighborhood near East Fourth and Williams streets as well as...
by Jane Richey | Jun 20, 2013 | Agenda 21
President Obama is preparing regulations limiting carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, senior officials said Wednesday. The move would be the most consequential climate policy step he could take and one likely to provoke legal challenges from...
by Jane Richey | Jun 19, 2013 | Agenda 21
The World Bank is beginning to commit billions of dollars to flood prevention, water management and other projects to help major Asian cities avoid the expected impact of climate change, a dramatic example of how short the horizon has become to alleviate the effects...
by Jane Richey | Jun 19, 2013 | Agenda 21
President Barack Obama told a cheering crowd in Berlin Wednesday that nations must unite to fight the “grim” future of climate change, which will produce “severe storms, more famine and floods, new waves of refugees — coastlines will vanish, oceans will rise.”...
by Jane Richey | Jun 18, 2013 | Agenda 21
The website for Met-Ed’s EasyGreen power conservation program now features a tiny puppet in a safety vest and hard hat holding out his palm in a stopping motion. “This site is closed for maintenance,” the message reads. And PPL’s program,...
by Jane Richey | Jun 18, 2013 | Agenda 21
Is there a “compact, mixed-use community” in your future? Probably. But it won’t be near a “sensitive area” — lakeside, riverside, seaside, forest or farm. Many Americans may find themselves living in a TOD — a “transit...
