Category: Natural World

Our health and happiness are shaped, in part, by direct, convenient access to nature.

This is the first article in a series exploring municipal climate rhetoric and reality. Whether acknowledged or not, municipalities are at the center of the climate crisis.

This is the second article in a series exploring municipal climate rhetoric and reality. Maine and Nova Scotia illustrate how culture can produce incompatible planning and development outcomes.

This is the third article in a series exploring municipal climate rhetoric and reality. Portland, ME, and Halifax, NS, help clarify when a climate action plan is or is not an exercise in virtue signaling.

This is the fourth article in a series exploring municipal climate rhetoric and reality. Halifax, NS, serves as a worst-case scenario in terms of demolishing historic, human-scale development. Portland, ME, understands that “the greenest building is the one that already exists.”

This is the fifth article in a series exploring municipal climate rhetoric and reality. All research shows that high-rise development produces worst-case climate outcomes. Halifax has committed to a high-rise future. Portland, ME, can show others that there’s a path that values the environment and quality of life.

This is the seventh article in a series exploring municipal climate rhetoric and reality. Halifax, NS, falsely believes EVs offset the consequences of expanding auto-dependency. Portland, ME has enacted meaningful regulatory reform.

There’s a persistent gap between climate rhetoric and reality concerning local governments approving horizontal and vertical sprawl at the expense of human-scale development.