Posted on 09/21/2007 2:16:14 PM PDT by republicpictures
Don't want to fork out for a Prius? Can't see tanking up with ethanol? Can't afford solar panels for your roof?
Not to worry, you can still do something to fight global warming: Live closer to work.
That's one conclusion of a major national report published Thursday by the nonprofit Urban Land Institute.
...A hotly contested bill sponsored by Sen. Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) would require regional planning groups to set targets for reducing greenhouse gases, and could stop millions of dollars in federal, state and local transportation funds from being spent on roads that could encourage sprawl.
...two-thirds of the structures in the U.S. in 2050 will have been built between now and then. Construction will include 89 million new or replaced homes, and 190 billion square feet of new offices, stores and institutions. If only 60% of that development is clustered in mixed-use, compact areas, it could slash greenhouse gas emissions from transportation by 7%, the report said.
...The California Chamber of Commerce and the California Building Industry Assn. declined to comment on the report, but James Burling, litigation director for the Pacific Legal Foundation, a conservative group that has battled environmentalists over land-use issues, dismissed "the latest anti-sprawl crusade based on global warming" as "no different from every other anti-sprawl campaign from Roman times to the present."
"So long as people ardently desire to live and raise children in detached homes with a bit of lawn, there is virtually nothing that government bureaucrats can do that will thwart that," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Something like 90% of US territory is land that is unmolested.
Liberals.
NO WAY!
We WILL tell you where you can live and where you can work.
Big Brother.
That is all.
If I live closer to work, my wife is farther. If she is closer, I am farther. I don’t wish to live apart from my wife.
Deal with it, environazis!
Me? I sleep about 50 feet from work.
I have a 1/2 mile commute... close enough?
It has nothing to do with the environment and everything to do with having more family time.
>> To go green, live closer to work, report says ...
I agree. People should live closer to work. It’d certainly make it easier for me to complete my 35 mile commute in my beautiful, black, ultra-luxurious Hummer H2.
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Let’s see...
Someone passes laws/zoning that restricts height of housing complexes, mandates “green space”, puts caps on rent (which decreases availability),
then bitches when people move further out (”sprawl”).
Yep, Liberals.
This just makes sense.
Many people have already figured out that spending hours a day commuting just doesn’t pencil out .... economically, or for the family or just for personal time.
Time is the true finte commodity.
People who live far from work have done so as a conscious decision, a trade off. They may think it’s worth it to them. However, people often reconsider their choices and make changes.
Duh?
Me too! I solved it. I walk out into the kitchen, make coffee, have breakfast, walk the dogs, come back in..go into my office and work:)
“Not to worry, you can still do something to fight global warming: Live closer to work. “
I guess the author of this article could move into the dumpsters out back of McD’s
The reason many people abandoned the cities was to escape the cultural meltdown brought about by liberalism.
The NYC of the 1920s through 1940s was something to behold. Same goes for Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., even Detroit.
However, if they can persuade all those libs from NY, Seattle and Boston to stop invading Vermont,Idaho and New Hampshire, some good would come of it.
I’m not much of a greeny weeny, but I really don’t get why people tolerate such long commutes. Most of the people I work with drive over 25 miles, which can take an hour in traffic. I’ve had long commutes, and I guess you do what you have to, but less than 10 miles was a major factor in taking the last three jobs. I almost get a chuckle at the lemmings driving out to their brand new clear cut nazi association run McNeighborhoods, 30 miles out of town, fighting 5 o’clock traffic. I like my old neighborhood, with sidewalks and trees, where you don’t have to get in the car to go get ice cream or find a park or playground.
What idiocy out of a capital city where the Governor commutes to work via airplane from Southern California.
If only my work was closer to home, but my job is in a somewhat industrial area in Stockton surrounded by cheap drug infested apartments and trailer parks. I choose to live 11 miles away in livable, lovable Lodi (never mind the Mosque).
Fine. You get crime out of the inner city, and we’ll raise our kids there. Until then, safety first.
A large portion of money now spent on roads is under the control of the "smart growth" crowd. They are actively necking down roads, inserting sidewalk peninsulas, reducing numbers of lanes, adding bike lanes, adding roundabouts...just about everything they can think of to frustrate drivers. One of their goals is to get people to give up driving and take mass transportation. No matter how much they try, people are going to drive their cars. They are going to spend more time in rush hour traffic. This is good for talk radio. One of these days, the "smart growth " socialists will realize they will have to pry people's cold dead hands off the steering wheels to achieve their goals. I'm waiting. On that day, the second American Civil War begins.
Bureau of Land Management shows that 4.33 percent of our land is developed. What spraul?
Ever driven through Texas? Nebraska? Idaho?
There is no one out there.
The problem will take care of itself, along with GW, when the cheap oil gives out.
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