Halina Brown: “Sustainable consumption and wellbeing on a modest carbon footprint: Penn South, an affordable urban community in New York City”

In my July 9 post, I proposed that one-way cities might ameliorate the detrimental effects of extreme income inequality, while also avoiding the inevitable increase in greenhouse gas emissions that accompanies higher income, is to provide affordable services and amenities. Affordable housing is a great place to start and it is an opportunity for municipalities … Read more

Special issue on Linking Local Consumption and Global Impacts

Reid Lifset from Yale University shared the following special issue with us that links clocal consumption to global impacts: Dear SCORAI-ites In a new special issue, “Linking Local Consumption and Global Impacts,” Yale’s Journal of Industrial Ecology examines the virtual shrinking of distances between places — arising because of trade, telecommunication and travel — and … Read more