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By Barbara McCann, April 25, 2011
The Earth Day celebrations in the popular media tend to focus on individual actions – turn off the lights, use your own bags when shopping, or, if you are really committed, buy a Nissan Leaf or a Prius.
Yet we all know that a more sustainable future depends on bigger actions that will require all of us to work together.
In the case of transportation, replacing our cars won’t be enough; we need to replace our roads, or at least our road-building habits. That is where Complete Streets policies come in. Some
communities are adopting Complete Streets policies as one element in a suite of activities aimed at stepping more lightly on the Earth.
To learn more, check out an essay I wrote on this topic for the journal Environmental Practice. (volume 13, issue 01, pp. 63-64. Copyright, Cambridge University Press).
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