Category: Environment
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Cool Idea: The East Coast Greenway
David Brickley, a 62-year-old lawyer and former state legislator in Prince William County, is spearheading local efforts to tie Prince William and Virginia into the 3,000-mile East Coast Greenway that runs from the Canadian border to Key West, Fla. The Manassas Journal Messenger has the story here. The trail is a grassroots initiative working under…
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Earthship Westerdam
Comparing human settlement patterns on the luxury liner Westerdam with towns and cities in Virginia, as I’ve done in my most recent column, “Earthship Westerdam,” may seem a bit of a stretch. I certainly don’t advocate modeling Virginia communities on a cruise liner with midtown-Manhattan levels of density. I regard the article as more of…