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Apr 20, 2012

Happy Friday! To get your weekend off to a great start here are a few international news clips related to climate change bike sharing energy efficiency and a reminder on the role of land use plays in how people interact with one another:

Apr 19, 2012

Week two of Region Forward’s focus on Earth Month featured an abundance of actions by area governments and officials to make metro Washington greener. In Prince William County residents play an active role in protecting its natural areas through the Go Green Movement.

Apr 12, 2012

In our first week of celebrating Earth Month 2012 MWCOG and Region Forward have highlighted several actions and plans that put metro Washington on a path toward a more sustainable future (on Facebook and Twitter ).

Apr 6, 2012

Metropolitan Washington has made much environmental headway to be proud of. For example by 2011 the District of Columbia was the “state” with the most LEED certified green building per capita and it also beat out New York City as the U.S. city with most green buildings .

Apr 5, 2012

What’s better than Earth Day? Earth Month! All April long MWCOG will promote initiatives and events by its member jurisdictions that make metro Washington region greener and more sustainable.

Mar 30, 2012

UK energy independence: In the US when we talk about energy independence we typically are referring to reducing our dependence on foreign oil . The logic behind this is that when our energy sources are under the control of other countries (some of which we don’t have the best relations with) we’re much more vulnerable to energy shortages and/or price hikes.

Mar 23, 2012

How innovative is your metro area? Jonathan Rothwell over at The New Republic breaks down some new OECD data on inventors per capita and applications for patents by country and by metro area. Rothwell notes that ten metro areas which comprise only about two percent of the world’s population account for 24 percent of all patent applications!

Mar 16, 2012

Fuller explains that the region must take a cooperative approach to planning for slower growth and promoting economic diversification in light of likely cuts in federal government spending and employment.​

Mar 15, 2012

As we’ve discussed many times on the blog significant cuts in federal spending are right around the corner. And metro Washington more than any other region in the nation will feel a major impact from them.

Mar 9, 2012

Uncertainty is a term that’s been used with much frequency since the beginning of the Great Recession a few years ago. While initially related to the economic sector the lexicon of uncertainty has spread to other areas as well including climate and energy policy.