by Mary Baker | Jun 25, 2012 | Free Range Life, Sustainable Development |
Two propagators of the modernist environmental movement who had an enormous influence over a generation of hippies and their progeny are now realizing they may have overstepped and that their youthful ideology may have been irresponsible. James Lovelock, a former NASA...
by Mary Baker | Jun 15, 2012 | Exurban/Suburban, Free Range Life, Rural, Sustainable Development |
Our country’s focus on requiring sustainability principles in all land use, energy, and transportation policies is putting a choke hold on the American people that has them suffocating and pounding the mat for relief as they wrestle with the consequences of increasing...
by Mary Baker | Jun 10, 2012 | Sustainable Development |
Increasingly, since the California Wildlife Conservation Law of 1947 (Section 1300-1301), the state has been acquiring land and facilities for the purpose of preserving, protecting and restoring wildlife and providing suitable recreation and use of fish and game...
by Mary Baker | Jun 5, 2012 | International, National, Sustainable Development |
Sustainable development principles are intended to balance environmental protection with economic development. This concept, which is the main focus of this year’s Rio+20 Summit being held in Brazil, is lauded by advocates all over the world as the requisite paradigm...
by Mary Baker | May 25, 2012 | Exurban/Suburban, Free Range Life, Sustainable Development |
Out here in exurbia we coexist with nature. Surprisingly, the first sounds of the day are not from cars, school buses or children walking to school, they are from the yelping coyotes or screeching barn owls at dawn followed by the sounds of ravens, hawks, roosters,...
by Mary Baker | May 24, 2012 | International, National, Sustainable Development |
The International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) is a highly funded organization that was created in 1948 for the purpose of “evaluating the conservation status of plant and animal species” and to open dialogue between...
by Mary Baker | May 18, 2012 | Exurban/Suburban, National, Rural, Smart Growth, Sustainable Development, Urban |
Today and in the past, social engineers have been defining the ideal plan for human settlements. The Thoreau Institute published an article in May 2005 called Smart Growth and the Ideal City.1 In the article, what appears to be a contemporary description of smart...
by Mary Baker | May 18, 2012 | Exurban/Suburban, National, Rural, Smart Growth, Sustainable Development, Urban |
Every American has the opportunity to own private property and for those who own land or who dream of owning land, their American Dream is threatened by a massive initiative known to us now as Smart Growth/Sustainable Development. As our country copes with dwindling...
by Mary Baker | May 14, 2012 | Exurban/Suburban, National, Smart Growth, Sustainable Development, Urban |
Recently, while scanning the news in the San Diego Union Tribune, I came across this article about “Taking Inventory of County’s Trees”. The article describes Robin Rivet’s “ambitious effort to map every urban tree in San Diego...
by Mary Baker | May 12, 2012 | Exurban/Suburban, Rural, Smart Growth, Sustainable Development, Urban |
The American Planning Association developed a smart growth planning ‘newspeak‘ during the 90s. Planning departments all around the country are adopting this new language. Click here for more buzz words. These photos are evidence that smart growth planning...
by Mary Baker | May 4, 2012 | Exurban/Suburban, Free Range Life, Smart Growth, Sustainable Development |
Welcome to Exurbia Chronicles! Many of you may have never heard of the term exurbia before now. According to the free on-line dictionary it means: The exurbs collectively; the region beyond the suburbs. Exurbia to me is an expression that defines a free range...
