Study says, cut sprawl to help environment


	Study says, cut sprawl to help environment

Jenhahaha

9-20-2007 6:23 PM

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"The research shows that one of the best ways to reduce vehicle travel is to build places where people can accomplish more with less driving," Reid Ewing, the report's lead author and a research professor at the National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education at the University of Maryland, said in a statement released with the report.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/bal-climate0920,0,2140815.story"><DIV>
Making as much as 60 percent of new growth more compact nationwide could prevent 85 million metric tons of carbon dioxide from being released into the atmosphere annually by 2030, the report calculates. That's roughly equal to the carbon-dioxide reductions that could be gained by upping the fuel economy standards for new vehicles to 32 miles per gallon, on par with what Congress is now considering.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1E475E9C-473B-4776-8A91-7033A1B480E6/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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