Green Options » Pecan Street Project http://greenoptions.com/tag/pecan-street-project Posts tagged 'Pecan Street Project' Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:59:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Weekly Roundup of Green U.S. News http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/12/05/weekly-roundup-of-green-us-news/ http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/12/05/weekly-roundup-of-green-us-news/#comments Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:59:06 +0000 Shirley Siluk Gregory http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/12/05/weekly-roundup-of-green-us-news/ Stefano Corso at Wikimedia Commons, free license to publish with copyright notice and attribution)OK, so I haven’t posted a weekly green news roundup in a while, but I’m getting back to making it a regular feature as of today. So what are the green scoops across the U.S. this week? There’s plenty:

  • Over in Dallas, for instance, officials and urban designers are gathering today for an all-day “charrette” (or brainstorming session) to figure out what it would take to create a fully sustainable city block. They hope to follow up their meeting with an international competition to design just such a thing. (You can read more here (PDF)).

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