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Walkscore Rates the Most Walkable Cities In America. Is It A Useful Metric?

11:30 am in atlanta, Design & Architecture, urban design, urban planning, walkscore by TreeHugger

austell road walkscore image Yesterday I wrote about a mom who was convicted of vehicular homicide after her son was killed by a drunk hit-and-run, because she crossed the street from a bus stop without walking almost half a mile to the traffic light. Today Walkscore has released its list of America's most walkable cities and I wondered what the walkscore of poor Raquel Nelson's home is, where this accident happened. It is an aston...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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How Old Hotel Soap Can Save Thousands of Lives

2:59 pm in atlanta, developing nations, diseases, Food & Health, recycling, tourism, uganda by TreeHugger

hotel soap shampoo toiletries photo Toiletries at a Seattle hotel. Photo: Daniel Morrison / Creative Commons. I'll admit it, I'm a sucker for those little hotel soaps and shampoos and lotions. I rarely go home from a hotel stay without a handful of them stuffed in my bag. But they are wasteful, with hundreds of millions of soap bars discarded ea...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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