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		<title>New Ventilation System Keeps Buildings Fresh But Warm</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 08:42:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forum for the Future</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Cambridge University spin-off has an innovative solution for ventilating sealed buildings involving mixing fresh (but cold) incoming air with interior air.]]></description>
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		<title>Eight Guidelines to Keep Creativity at the Heart of Cities</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 08:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Silvie Jacobi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The buzzword ‘creativity’ comes in handy when making top-down planning strategies sound somewhat more positive, inclusive or even alternative. However, what creativity signifies in some cultures is very different from others.]]></description>
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		<title>Infographic: Cities Embracing the Green Revolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 08:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Peach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Could a 'green revolution' in cities be the solution to rising CO2 levels? This new infographic provides an interesting view of sustainability in New York, Vancouver, Copenhagen, London, Amsterdam and Stockholm.]]></description>
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		<title>The Economic and Educational Value of Retrofitting Schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 08:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forum for the Future</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the potential to reduce carbon consumption and energy costs, retrofitting older schools makes sense. And schools are increasingly discovering the education value of retrofitting too.

retrofitting its school is an investment that Impington Village College, near Cambridge in England, can’t afford not to make. Especially given that its annual carbon emissions – currently at 101.33kgCO2/m2 – are double the national average.]]></description>
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		<title>Greening Cities with Better Bike Lanes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 08:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dana Fatol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Green Lane Project has brought together six U.S. cities to build more protected bike trails. Martha Roskowski, Director of the project, put some time aside to talk to This Big City.]]></description>
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		<title>Texas and Bangladesh: Tragedies of Placeless Economics</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 08:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Drew Reed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are living under a system of placeless economics, where a few digits on an accountant’s spreadsheet negate the common sense of properly building and locating industrial facilities.]]></description>
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		<title>Urban Ideology in Obama’s Brand of Regionalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 08:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Beyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a new book, Obama aims to “abolish the suburbs, ideally by having cities annex suburban municipalities.” Is the author right that Obama's policies are “hostile to traditions of individual freedom”?]]></description>
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		<title>The DIY Disaster Plan</title>
		<link>http://thisbigcity.net/the-diy-disaster-plan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 08:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Next City</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As cities around the world grapple with rising sea levels and strengthening storms, governments are responding with an array of infrastructural solutions. But there’s a growing awareness that combating disasters with hard infrastructure alone ignores half the equation.]]></description>
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		<title>Healthy Communities at the Placemaking Leadership Council</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 08:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cara Courage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the aims of the Placemaking Leadership Council’s April meeting was to form an agenda for a global campaign for placemaking as a movement. The 300 delegates from around the world tacked different aspects of placemaking, including healthy communities. ]]></description>
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		<title>Producing Sustainable Solar Panels Without Rare Materials</title>
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		<comments>http://thisbigcity.net/producing-sustainable-solar-panels-without-rare-materials/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 08:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forum for the Future</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The energy that comes out of solar panels is renewable, but what about the panels themselves? Not so much - today’s leading solar panels owe their high sunlight-to-electricity conversion rates to the use of rare elements. The pressure is on to find a way of making solar power even more sustainable.]]></description>
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