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Josie Garthwaite

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Bikes and Buses Propel Mexico City to Prize in Sustainable Transport (National Geographic)

January 17, 2013 by Josie Garthwaite

Bicycles, pedestrian-friendly plazas and walkways, new bus lines, and parking meters are combining to transform parts of Mexico City from a traffic nightmare to a commuter’s paradise.

Categories: Mobility & Transport, National Geographic, Sustainable Cities

Hackathon Produces Apps for a Cleaner Commute (The New York Times)

September 15, 2011 by Josie Garthwaite

What can data do for your daily commute? A team of energy policy consultants and software developers met in San Francisco to brainstorm how data sets could be used to make the typical urban commute shorter and greener.

Categories: Mobility & Transport, Sustainable Cities, Technology, The New York Times

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Coyotes now inhabit every state in the country except Hawaii, eating mostly rodents, rabbits, and fruit.

— "Learning to Live With Urban Coyotes"

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Desert tortoises in the Mojave are able to survive a year or more without water and live for as long as 80 years.

— "World's Largest Solar Plant Ready to Shine"

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A nearly 10-foot-long relative of the centipede called the Arthropleura splashed through Inner Mongolia's swampland 298 million years ago.

— "Into the Permian Woods"

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