Welcome to our news page. Here are links to topical news stories, articles, and essays relevant to urban life and sustainability. We will add news stories as we find them, at least several times a week.
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Hong Kong's Marvelous Transit SystemSee an article in your online newspaper you think TNC readers would enjoy? Send the title and link to editor@newcolonist.com.Tea Partiers Oppose CA's Global Warming Regulations
Abandoned Streets Can Be a City's Salvation
Nothing Succeeds Like Success: FHA Studies European Bike/Ped programs
Nike Cuts Carbon Footprint While Increasing Sales
UK Lists Environment Protestors with Terrorists, Bombers as "Extremist Criminal"
California's Folly: Proposition 13
TOD Requires More than Just Transit and Development
Bicycle Bouoevards, Parking Corrals to Come to Long Beach (CA)
Catching Rainwater for Re-Use in Los Angeles
Want to Create Jobs? Build Transit, not Highways
Cell Phones May Transform Africa's Economy
Consumption Cult Root Cause of environmental Degradation