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Can the Winter Olympics Survive Climate Change?

Posted by rackfokus on Tuesday, 28 January 2014 in Climate Change

Only six of the previous Winter Olympics host cities will be cold enough to reliably host the Games by the end of this century if global warming projections prove accurate, a new Waterloo study has found. Even with conservative climate projections, only 11 of the previous 19 sites could host the Ga...

Portlands Investment into Biking

Posted by Wolf on Wednesday, 02 October 2013 in Transportation

Portland has been factoring bicycling into integrated urban, suburban, and even rural transportation, development and sustainability plans. In 2003, city leaders and transit authorities launched a public campaign to encourage residents to bike, walk and make greater use of public transportation. The...

Sustainability and Football

Posted by bensor on Monday, 31 December 2012 in Sustainable Development

As is the case with most sports, college football–not to mention bowl games–and sustainability do not intuitively go in the same sentence. The long-term sustainability of many of these games themselves come into question considering how many of them there are; 6-6 teams have an opport...

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