March 2011
Planning
Laws allowing medical marijuana have some unintended consequences. With a sidebar on prisons, casinos, and other LULUs. By Libby Sky Kaiser.
Sidebar: Saying 'Yes' to Other LULUs
Some rural electrical cooperatives are flirting with renewable energy. A Planning Practice article by Allen Best.
Corry Buckwalter Berkooz reports on cities that are saving money — and the environment — through stormwater management. A Sustaining Places story.
Jerry Wachtel explains how big electric signs are distracting drivers in new ways.
Want to reduce crashes? Raymond Heinrich says the key is to change visual cues.
Cleaning up a dirty creek means a lot more than picking up the trash. Kristina Casagrand reports.
A regular column by CEO Paul Farmer.
Congressional cost cutting, Everglades levee.
LED signs, pesticide drift.
Statistics in the news, compiled by APA's Research Department. This month: locally unwanted land uses.
An interview with Jeremy Rifkind.
Bus rapid transit, tunnel funding.
Post carbon planning, economic development.
New reports, blogs, videos, etc.
Census surprises.
Cover art: Fort Bragg, California. Photo by Kenneth & Gabrielle Adelman of the Coastal Resources Project.