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James Horrox

Los Angeles
As seen in: Medium, Streetsblog Network, Environment America, Frontier Group
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"OK fine. Where d'you want to walk to?"

"OK fine. Where d'you want to walk to?"

Frontier Group — Walkability has become a highly sought-after neighborhood trait, but many American cities just aren't designed for it. With more funding available today than ever before to invest in active modes of transportation, the door is wide open for that to change.
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Edward Abbey and the robber baron mindset

Edward Abbey and the robber baron mindset

Frontier Group — As much as Abbey's work emphasizes the importance of legal protections against those who would plunder America's natural lands, it also invites us to consider the value system that underlies, excuses and legitimizes this vandalism.
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Communities of the good and the politics of purity

Communities of the good and the politics of purity

Frontier Group — In certain sections of the political landscape, debate over ideas and policies has become a lesser form of currency than grandstanding, finger-wagging and moral posturing. This might get you a cheer from your friends, but it's not going to win you any new ones.
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Planting trees won't solve the climate crisis - but it'll help

Planting trees won't solve the climate crisis - but it'll help

Frontier Group — Tree planting is one of the most effective tools we have for tackling climate change – so long as policies supporting these efforts listen to the science and learn from experience.
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The greening of cities: Integrating nature into urban design

The greening of cities: Integrating nature into urban design

Frontier Group — As we march towards an increasingly urbanized future, the task of forging the right relationship between the built environment and the natural one is an ever more pressing priority.
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The problems of America's car dependency are staring us in the face. So are the solutions.

The problems of America's car dependency are staring us in the face. So are the solutions.

Frontier Group — COVID-19 has shown us what a world without traffic could look like. Over the last year, we've seen empty freeways and city centers devoid of the noise and congestion that many of us have come to accept as unavoidable facts of life.
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New Life for the Ocean: How Marine Protections Keep Our Waters Wild

New Life for the Ocean: How Marine Protections Keep Our Waters Wild

Frontier Group — New Life for the Ocean examines the science of marine protections, highlighting six success stories that show how marine protected areas can be effective tools to conserve and revive marine ecosystems and restore our ocean to health.
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Rediscovering the Local: Lockdown Wanderings as an Antidote to Habit

Rediscovering the Local: Lockdown Wanderings as an Antidote to Habit

secessio.net — We humans have a tendency to see the world through the lens of what Henri Bergson called 'habit-memory' - our automatic reflex to make use of the 'ready-made' and to fall back into mechanical repetition of the same actions and ideas. Learning to listen to our imagination and to understand the places we live in...
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Public lands should be our ally in combating climate change, not part of the problem

Public lands should be our ally in combating climate change, not part of the problem

Frontier Group — Energy leasing on U.S. public lands makes these lands a major contributor to the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. It doesn’t have to be that way.
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Finding common ground in an age of division: how conservation bridges the partisan divide

Finding common ground in an age of division: how conservation bridges the partisan divide

Frontier Group — In today’s deeply polarized political landscape it’s hard to find issues that Americans agree on. But a bipartisan recognition of the importance of protecting our open spaces provides reason for optimism.
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Sick ecosystems lead to sick people: How deforestation is aiding the spread of disease

Sick ecosystems lead to sick people: How deforestation is aiding the spread of disease

Environment America — It's almost clichéd to say of environmental challenges that "everything's connected." But in the case of the spread of infectious diseases like COVID-19, it is now clear that unsustainable practices on the other side of the globe - along with those taking place right in our own backyards - are increasingly putting our health at risk.
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Protecting the Places We Love

Protecting the Places We Love

Frontier Group — A deep dive into the conservation projects funded by the Land & Water Conservation Fund in Nevada.
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Bears Ears and Grand Staircase: A Monumental Tragedy

Bears Ears and Grand Staircase: A Monumental Tragedy

Frontier Group — With energy projects on public lands already responsible for almost a quarter of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, opening up yet more areas of protected land to the fossil fuel industry is bad news for conservation and bad news for the global climate.
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The Land and Water Conservation Fund and Why it Matters

The Land and Water Conservation Fund and Why it Matters

Frontier Group — The United States is losing its natural lands at an alarming rate. In the first decades of this century, according to a study by the Center for American Progress, a staggering 24 million acres of green space was swallowed up by urban expansion, industrial development and other human encroachments on the natural world - that's the equivalent of nine Grand Canyon national parks.
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These Lands Are Our Lands: The Trump Administration Attack on Public Participation in Land Issues

These Lands Are Our Lands: The Trump Administration Attack on Public Participation in Land Issues

Environment America — It's no secret that President Trump has staged a relentless series of attacks on the environment and public lands since taking office. But if the Trump administration has its way, more of its efforts to curb key environmental protections will be able to take place behind closed doors - or at least in ways that limit the public's ability to voice its opinion.
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Electric Buses Prove Their Worth in American Cities

Electric Buses Prove Their Worth in American Cities

Frontier Group — Just as rapid improvements to gasoline-powered vehicles and infrastructure revolutionized transportation in the early 20th century, so too are radical innovations in electric vehicle technology resolving many of the problems with the early incarnations of the electric bus. The transit agencies and school districts that have already experimented with these vehicles have shown that they can be viable, environmentally friendly and cost-effective replacements for diesel buses.
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The Tongass National Forest Under Threat

The Tongass National Forest Under Threat

Frontier Group — Sprawling across 16.7 million acres of southeastern Alaska, the Tongass National Forest is known to many as the "crown jewel" of the National Forest System. The largest of America's national forests, this spectacular landscape contains some of the last surviving old-growth temperate rainforest on the continent and is home to numerous species of rare and imperiled wildlife.
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Growing Greener: The Environmental Benefits of a Compact and Connected Boulder

Growing Greener: The Environmental Benefits of a Compact and Connected Boulder

Frontier Group — The Environmental Benefits of a Compact and Connected Boulder
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Foot People: On (Not) Walking in LA

Foot People: On (Not) Walking in LA

Frontier Group — As cities across America grapple to reach their greenhouse gas emissions targets, increasing connectivity while pursuing policies that aim to reduce automobile dependency must be the goal. And if that's the goal, then walkable cities will become a necessity.
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The Science of Hiking

The Science of Hiking

Medium.com — Harvard physician Paul Dudley White, the 'father of American cardiology', believed that a brisk, five mile walk every day is as good a remedy for a restless mind as anything the worlds of medicine and psychology have to offer.
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Big yellow batteries? How electric school buses can help clean up the grid

Big yellow batteries? How electric school buses can help clean up the grid

Frontier Group — Over the course of more than 50 hours in the summer of 2021, an electric school bus in Massachusetts successfully delivered almost 3 megawatt-hours of power to the New England electric grid.
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Proforestation: What it is and why it matters

Proforestation: What it is and why it matters

Frontier Group — Reforestation and afforestation are important lines of defense against climate change. But there’s another that could be just as valuable, if not more so – especially in the short term: simply leaving our existing forests alone.
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Counting the hidden cost of driving

Counting the hidden cost of driving

Frontier Group — Record gas prices have hit many Americans hard - but when it comes to recouping the massive environmental, health and other costs imposed on society by America's car dependency, what we pay at the pump doesn't even scratch the surface.
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High gas prices are a symptom of our dependence on oil. It's time to cure the disease

High gas prices are a symptom of our dependence on oil. It's time to cure the disease

Frontier Group — A system of transportation finance that persists in channeling billions of taxpayer dollars into incentivizing the most damaging and unsustainable modes of travel is a broken one. Now is the time to start fixing it.
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