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  • After Shutting Down, These Golf Courses Went Wild

    Cara Buckley

    February 16, 2024 |

    The New York Times |

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    Land trusts, municipalities, and nonprofits across the United States are purchasing and rewilding golf courses to create nature preserves and parks. The organizations slowly bring the courses back to their natural state by moving soil, reconnecting flood plains, removing wildlife barriers, and allowing native plants to grow.

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  • How New York's Public Hospitals Cut Carbon Emissions: More Vegetables

    Cara Buckley

    August 31, 2023 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Plant-based food is now the default option at New York City’s 11 public hospitals, and the change is decreasing their greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, meat is only served upon special request.

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  • These Americans Are Just Going Around in Circles. It Helps the Climate.

    Cara Buckley

    November 20, 2021 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Carmel, Indiana

    America's capital of the traffic roundabout is Carmel, Indiana, a city of 102,000 people and 140 roundabouts. The city boasts exceptionally low rates of traffic deaths and injury crashes. Studies of roundabout use elsewhere show benefits as well in pedestrian and bicycle safety, and in cutting environmentally harmful emissions because traditional intersections cause much longer idling times. Not all drivers like them, but Carmel long ago overcame initial qualms when the longtime mayor put into practice the traffic idea he admired when he was a university student in England.

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