It’s been awhile since we’ve done a round-up of posts here at The Yardstick and since we’ve covered so many topics over the past couple of months, we thought we’d .. Keep Reading
This March, Jeff King, a Principal Environmental Planner at MWCOG, and Rick Cole, City Manager at the City of Ventura, California, traveled to the cities of Beijing, Xi’an, and Chongqing .. Keep Reading
Happy Friday! To get your weekend off to a great start, here are a few international news clips related to climate change, bike sharing, energy efficiency, and a reminder on .. Keep Reading
Metropolitan Washington has made much environmental headway to be proud of. For example, by 2011 the District of Columbia was the “state” with the most LEED certified green building per .. Keep Reading
UK energy independence: In the US, when we talk about energy independence we typically are referring to reducing our dependence on foreign oil. The logic behind this is that .. Keep Reading
How innovative is your metro area? Jonathan Rothwell over at The New Republic breaks down some new OECD data on inventors per capita and applications for patents by country and.. Keep Reading
Uncertainty is a term that’s been used with much frequency since the beginning of the Great Recession a few years ago. While initially related to the economic sector, the lexicon .. Keep Reading
Building a sustainable suburb
Diana Lind has a piece in Next American City that’s getting a lot of attention this week. In the piece she argues that it’s not constructive .. Keep Reading
An article from Atlantic Cities on the rapid development of Surrey, a former edge city near Vancouver, recently caught our eye, particularly in relation to the effort underway to .. Keep Reading
We’ve got a year-in-review post in the works that will highlight some of the most-read and most-shared blog posts from Region Forward over the past year. Look for that next .. Keep Reading
Today is effectively Friday for many DC area residents, so we thought we’d get a jump on things with an early Global Fridays post. Enjoy!
High and increasing housing values. .. Keep Reading
This week The Guardian asks if Britain’s love affair with the car has ended. Rates of driving in the UK have decreased dramatically over the past few years, especially .. Keep Reading
Over the past few years, a number of reports and articles have popped up discussing a trend that would have seemed completely unrealistic only a few years ago – the .. Keep Reading
Often times, these Global Fridays post can sound a bit cynical. We know how it may come across: “Look at all the cool things Europe and Asia are doing! Come .. Keep Reading
We have a feeling that you may find yourself waiting in a very long line today or sometime this weekend (there’s some major movie thing going on), so today’s Global .. Keep Reading